PERIPHERY - the potential of freedom or a myth?
There is something paradoxical when we talk about periphery in the realm of space.
If we can imagine Earths sphere, the periphery that we are refering to is hard to find. Non the less if we consider that the Earth is rotating that paradox just becomes bigger. But in human mind it always exsisted and still does, inspite globalization. It has huge influence on our social status, our identity and the way we see ourselves and the people around us.
Periphery seems lightless. It is as though we are invisible, formless and are seeing things from relative distance.
But the question is, can we consider this absence as a potential freedom?
Maybe the reason for our art project is best described by Proust, when he says that only art can help us escape seeing things apart from our own mind and experiance different view at the universe.
In Iva Vranekovic case unconfortable with social environment and guided by intuition, cloth hangers go on a journey of their own. Homeless, they change their aura with every new location (Zagreb-Pula-Helsinki-Zagreb) reminding a bare human scelet, and a human habbit not to see anything that lies beneath the surface of raw human reality. Iva`s works are based on minimalistic art. Hangers, everyday object without it`s basic function becomes an enigmatic object reflecting genius loci refering to the place where artist founds herself at that certain moment.
Iva does mostly installation art where exhibition already starts with exhibition set-up. From that moment it becomes a subject of constant change.The inventory objects brought by the artist (hangers) or found accidentally and paint...everything has chance to become an equal part of the exhibition.
The sticky potential of material makes objects of Josipa Stefanec “steal” and accumulate clothes that use to belong to different persons, friends, passengers, but it also includes symbol of the famous idol (Michael Jackson). Objects become game of opposite line: anonymous and famous, male and female, purity and impurity, reality and fantasy…
It seems as though the form is built by everyday life and not the artist, feeding itself with identities who use to stay at the same space, living traces of specific place. Without it owners clothes looks a like reflections of alienated life, an argument without any understanding.
As for Snjezana Ban, the basis of her work lies on questions about identity of the artist and searching for place in art (world), in relation to predecessors and contemporaries, with an awareness of herself as someone who “comes after”.
Noting in her work the fact of Gilbert & George exhibition held in Zagreb for the first time, one can observe questioning about the role of specific place and time and the way it constructs our artistic identity. In Snjezana`s work, artistic icons Gilbert & George are left to be destroyed by moisture, which might transform them to a possible unrecognisable state. The outcome is uncertain, just like the answers to the questions on the present moment in art, which the work prompts; on the meaning of exhibiting at the time when hundreds of works are made and exhibited simultaneously, on the status of the artist – their immortality or transience…
Artist – Iva Vranekovic, Josipa Stefanec, Snjezana Ban
Artist Iva Vranekovic, Hangers (Zagreb-Pula-Helsinki-Pula) 2010. Installation, dimensions variable
Artist Josipa Stefanec, Clothes Catcher, 2010. dimensions cca 150x120x100cm
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Gilbert and George are coming , 2010.
MDF, plastic, iron, cardboard, paper, (photocopy), water, air supply pump, colour, characoal on paper
dimension variable: single object cca: 50 x 40 x 20 cm
Biography
Name: IVA VRANEKOVIĆ
Adress: V.Vidrića 14 10420 Samobor, Croatia
Contact: +038515630462 e-mail: yves_jar@yahoo.co.uk ivavranekovic@gmail.com
1983. born in Zagreb, Croatia.
She is a member of Croatian Association of Artists.
Since 2007. has been working as an Art Associate at the Department of Art Education, Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.
Education
2007. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Department of Art Education, Class of prof. Ante Rašić
Solo exhibitions:
2005. Nesting habits or the eviction of the crow, ALU, Zagreb; Transplatati, Art stays, Ptuj, Slovenia; Situation, Galerija Prica, Samobor.
2006. Plan izlaganja - objects and their fields, Galerija PM, HDLU, Zagreb; ITV - blue, Galerija Sv.Toma, Rovinj.
2007. Situation 2, Klub Drugi otok, Zagreb.
2009. Silence, Galerija umjetnina, Split - Absence, Academia Moderna, Zagreb.
Group exhibitions:
2004. Pasionska baština, Galerija Kristofor Stanković, Zagreb, Croatia
2005. Art in progress, Galerija SC, Zagreb, Croatia
2005. 39. Zagrebački salon, HDLU Galerija Karas, Zagreb, Croatia
2006. 28. Salon mladih, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2007. No name, Galerija Prsten, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2007. 42. Zagrebački salon, HDLU, Zagreb;Galerija Stančić, Croatia
2007. Platforma mladih koreografa (Platforma 2 )
2007. Galerija Ružić, Slavonski Brod (Tvrđa – intervention in space)
2008. 4th Croatian trienalle of drawing , Gliptoteka HAZU, Croatia
2008. We are here, MSU Pula, Croatia
2009. Visiting-Young Croatian art Scene, Galerije MUU i FAFA, Finland
2009. Crisis, MSU, Pula.
2009. 49.Annale, Poreč, Istarska Sabornica. –
2009. Absence, Academia Moderna, Zagreb, Croatia
2009. Moderna(Post)Moderna, Academia moderna, Galerija umjetnina, Split, Croatia
2010. Moderna(Post)Moderna 2, Academia Moderna, Tiskara, Pula, Croatia
2010. Transformation of Reality, MMC Luka, Pula, Croatia
Art Colonies - 2005. International Art Colonie, Ptuj, Slovenia; Art Colonie Slavonski Brod, Hrvatska; 2006.- Art Colonie Vis, Hrvatska Art Colonie Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Graphic work: 2007. Editor of the chatalog for the exhibition of Hungeryan Avangard held in Prica Gallery, Samobor, Croatia.
-name: JOSIPA STEFANEC
-address: Bukovca 11, 10290 Zapresic, Croatia
-mob: 00385 91 7656692
-email: josipa.stefanec@gmail.com
1978. born in Dusseldorf, Germany.
She is a member of Croatian Association of Artists.
She works as assistant at the University of Textile-tehnology in Zagreb, Croatia.
Education
2008. a graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts of sculptur in Zagreb.
2006. a graduated at the Department of Fashion Design, University of Textile-tehnology in Zagreb.
Solo exhibitions
2007. “The Third Dimensione”, Gallery PM, hdlu, Zagreb,Croatia.
2005. ”Hybrids” , Gallery SC, Zagreb, Croatia.
2005. ”The Cube”,Gallery St. Toma, Rovigno, Croatia.
Works in public collection
2010. „Green“, Museo dell' arte fabbrile, Maniago,Italy.
2008. „The yellow relief“ in collection of Erste Bank, Zagreb,Croatia.
2006. ”The mornig hybrid”in collection of Erste Bank,Zagreb,Croatia.
2006. “The wave”, Vrsar, Croatia.
2006. “3D”-instalation, The Ambassady of Croatia in Cairo, Egypt.
2005. “Mobil”,Casoria International Contemporary Art Museum,
Naples, Italy.
Selected group exhibitions
2010. Valcellina Award, Museo dell‘ arte fabbrile,Maniago,Italy.
2010. “Transformation of Reality”(with Tudek,Ban,Skalic,Vulic),Gallery Karas,
Zagreb,Croatia.
2009. International sculpture triennial, Poznan, Poland.
2009. “Artefatto 2009-LuminEssenze”,Trieste,Italy.
2009. 49th ANNALE, Istrian Chamber, Poreč,Croatia.
2009. Adri/Art, Fesstival due sponde un mare, Termoli,Italy.
2008. Adri/Art,Festival Due sponde un mare, Termoli, Italy.
2007. 42th Zagreb Salon, Hdlu, Zagreb, Croatia.
2006. “The New Fragments 3”, Hdlu, Zagreb, Croatia.
2006. Design Month-Design06, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2006. IX. Croatian Trienalle of Sculpture, Gliptoteka Hazu, Zagreb,Croatia.
2006. 28th Youth Salon,Hdlu, Zagreb, Croatia.
2006. Museum Fashion Day, Casoria, International Contemporary
Art Museum, Naples, Italy.
2006. AAW International Youth Salon, Alexandria, Egypt.
2006. “ Return to the Future”,40 years of Gallery SC,Zagreb,Croatia.
2005. XII. Biennale of Young Artists From Europa and The
Mediterranean, Naples, Italy.
2004. ”Heritage of pasione”,Gallery K.Stankovic, Zagreb, Croatia.
2004. 27th Youth Salon,Hdlu, Zagreb, Croatia.
2003. ”Imagerie-Art and fashion “-with GRUPPO 78, Museo
Revolltera ,galeria de Arte Moderna, Trieste, Italy.
2003. 37th Zagreb Salon, The eye of geometry, Zagreb, Croatia.
2002. International Biennale of Design, St. Etienne, France.
Awards
2008. Award for the best costumes “Suma Striborova”, Festival Naj,
Naj, Zagreb, Croatia.
2006. The New Fragments 3,Hdlu, Zagreb.
2006. Design Month 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2006. 28th Youth Salone, Aword of Ljevaonica Ujevic, Hdlu, Zagreb.
2006. AAW International Youth Salon, Alexandria, Egypt.
2004. “Heritage of pasione”, Gallery K.Stankovic, Zagreb, Croatia.
Name: SNJEŽANA BAN
Adress: Stari dvor 1, Laduč, 10292 Šenkovec, Croatia
Contact: 00 385 91 564 3707 snjezanaban@gmail.com
Born in Zagreb in 1980.
Lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia. She is a member of Croatian Association of Artists
Since 2007. has been working as an Art Associate at the Department of Art Education, Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.
Education
2007. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Department of Art Education, Class of prof. Ante Rašić.
2008. Graduated from the Faculty of Textile Tehnology in Zagreb, Department of Fashion Design
Since 2008. she is a postgraduate student of Painting at the same academy.
Independent exibition:
2010. Gilbert and George separate – simultaneosly with the exhibition Gilbert & George “Jack Freak Pictures” , Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2007. Gilbert & George separate Gallery Karas, Zagreb, Croatia
2007. Gallery Vladimir Bužančić, Novi Zagreb Cultural Centre, Croatia
2006. Gallery Sv.Toma, Rovinj, Croatia
Group exibitions:
2010. Transformation of reality, MMC Luka, Pula, Croatia
2010. Looking forward: South Eastern Europe Contemporary Art, Cetinje, Crna Gora
2010. Transformation of reality, Gallery Karas, Croatia
2010. Transform, Exhibition of works by professors and students of the Academy of Fine Arts in
Zageb, Sofia, Bulgaria
2010. MODERNA(POST)MODERNA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Istria, Pula, Croatia
2009. MODERNA(POST)MODERNA, Gallery of Fine Art, Split, Croatia
2009. X. Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, Glyptotheque, Zagreb
2009. Crisis, Gallery Stara tiskara, Pula, Croatia
2007. Essl award - finale, Glyptotheque, Zagreb, Croatia
2006. 28th Youth Salon, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2006. New fragments 3, Erste bank, HDLU, Zagreb
New fragments 3, Erste bank, Bjelovar,, Croatia
2006. Exhibition of Awarded Students at the Art Academy in Zagreb, Gallery gALUrija, Zagreb
2005. Art in progress, University parade, Gallery SC, Zagreb, Croatia
Awards and commendations:
2006. Grand Prix of the 28th Youth Salon, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2006. Prize HGK- Croatian Economy Chamber, Galerija gALUrija, Zagreb
2006. Second prize Erste Bank, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
2006./ 2005. /2004./2003. honor from Council of Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
