Igor Grubić, Red Fountain, 2008
Igor Grubić, Red Fountain, 2008
Opening: Friday, March 20 2009, 8 p.m.
Curators: Ivana Bago & Antonia Majaca
The exhibition at Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic is the final phase of Igor Grubic's
project 366 liberation rituals, commissioned by G-MK and developed over the
course of 2008 as a series of micro-political actions and interventions performed
by the artist almost on a daily basis. The 'rituals' function as a set of oppositional
signals in the public space and are closely correlated in their attempt to provoke
and confront the existing condition by infiltrating visual viruses in the preexisting
order of things.
The artists here assumes the role of a 'lonesome revolutionary' who, first of
all, fights against the potential of his own tranquilization and defeatism.
Alternating from radical and illegal interventions in public space (interventions
on public monuments, colouring the water of a public fountain into red, etc.)
to silent and almost invisible infiltrations into the hegemonic systems (marking
the money bills with agitating messages, intervening and transforming the content
of grafitti with nationalist and neofascist slogans) to entirely private rituals
in which the artist's 'intervention' is directed onto himself - Grubic explores
the borderline between poetical and political. The tactics he uses seem to challenge
the asymmetry of public and private, personal and political, thus evoking the
practices of historical conceptualism by reinforcing the individual, direct
actions.
The exhibition will be followed by a publication documenting the whole project,
with introductory texts by the exhibition curators, Ivana Bago & Antonia
Majaca, and Sezgin Boynik, sociologist and writer.
Duration of the exhibition: 21.3.2009 - 21.4.2009
Opening Hours: TUE - FR, 12 a.m. - 7 p.m., SA, 11 a.m. - 1
p.m.
Address: g-mk | galerija miroslav kraljevic, Subiceva 29, 10000
Zagreb, Kroatien
Further information: www.g-mk.hr