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ON
UNKNOWN WORKS
Boris Cvjetanović, Antonio
Gotovac Lauer (Tomislav Gotovac), Sanja Iveković, Željko
Jerman, Vlado Martek, Dalibor Martinis, Mladen Stilinović,
Sven Stilinović, Goran Trbuljak, Josip Vaništa
April 16 – May 13, 2007
Curated by Branka Stipančić
You are kindly invited to attend the opening
of the exhibition on Monday, April
16th
at 8 p.m.
The artists of this exhibition have
distinctive and long careers. They have been continuously
exhibiting for more than three, four and some for even five
decades. Despite this, every one of them has works at home
that have been rarely or never exhibited, works that were
somehow always left to the side in their ateliers or flats.
These works probably did not fit into the artists’ solo
exhibitions or did not correspond to curatorial themes and
concepts or perhaps they did not adequately reflect the
trend in which the work of the individual artist was to be
shown? These are works that were somehow not needed by
anyone, and even the artists themselves did not grant any
special attention to them: they did not exhibit them,
reproduce them in catalogues, and later they forgot about
them. Goran Trbuljak ironically calls those works
“retarded”. There was not enough interest or never the
opportunity? They have simply remained unknown.
I have focused attention on works from the
seventies and eighties of several artists: Boris Cvjetanović,
Antonio Gotovac-Lauer (Tomislav Gotovac), Sanja Iveković,
Željko Jerman, Julije Knifer, Vlado Martek, Dalibor
Martinis, Mladen Stilinović, Sven Stilinović, Goran Trbuljak
and Josip Vaništa. Here there are works on paper,
photographs, artist’s books, films and video works.
Paradoxically, some of the exhibited “unknown” works were at
one time printed in the daily papers circulation, yet all
the same, no one remembers them and does not count them.
Several of these have remained unknown even to today, as
they were inaccessible even to the artists themselves. Only
a few of the works in the exhibition are of a more recent
date. Those are the works by artists of the older generation
who rarely exhibit at exhibitions of contemporary art and
for this reason their newer works remain unknown.
The history of the individual non-exhibiting
is interesting. Sometimes a story is presented alongside the
work. The stories speak about all of us – of artists and
curators and the public.
In collaboration with:
WHW;
Galerija Nova, Zagreb; Art Radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik
The
programme of Škuc Gallery is supported
by Ministry of
Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
and
Cultural Department of the City of
Ljubljana.
For
further information contact Alenka
Gregorič, artistic director of the Škuc
Gallery on +386 1 251 65 40,
galerija.skuc@guest.arnes.si.
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