Naslov
Several Topics from the History of Curatorial Practices in Croatian Contemporary Art

Autori
Kalčić, Silva

Kolaboracija
Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Exhibitive Cartographies

Mjesto i datum
Online conference, 10.03.2022. - 12.03.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
curatorial practices, conceptual exhibition, conceptual curatorialship, curator-as-artist, artist-as-curator

Sažetak
The conceptualization of the exhibition, the first conceptual exhibition in the history of contemporary art in Croatia begins with the curatorial approach of Želimir Košćević, who was curator of the SC Gallery in Zagreb (Student Centre Gallery in Zagreb, then within the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia) between 1966 and 1979. More precisely, it begins with the 1969 Exhibition of Women and Men where its visitors were the exhibits, confirming the interdisciplinary character of contemporary art. The presentation and photo documentation of the audience’s reactions were published in the gallery magazine Novina, launched as a medium of self- contextualization, but also a publication for theoretical postulates on conceptual art. The final example of a conceptual exhibition, or the phenomenon of conceptualisation of an exhibition and its layout, and also the architecture of exhibition set- up, ends with the exhibition With the Collection of artist David Maljković at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, in January 2020, as a part of the opening program for Rijeka 2020 – European Capital of Culture. In his solo exhibition, David Maljković in fact displayed a part of the museum’s collection, stressing the point that the institution has no permanent display, but a collection archived in a storage. With his artistic intervention (or ‘gesture’, as termed by Maljković), the museum’s collection is examined nonhierarchically and nonlinearly. Museum objects have been set up at the same level, above the observer’s standard viewpoint, on a specially designed shelf that extended along the 40-metre wall of the newly opened exhibition space, in a former tobacco factory. Maljković’s exhibition included works or exhibitions of other, younger Croatian authors, such as Dora Budor who painted the façade of the museum in red, as a bright red monochrome in a line of buildings on a busy thoroughfare across the historicist Main Railway Station. Entitled narratively, There’s something terrible about reality and I don’t know what it is. No one will tell me, as a temporary art installation, it stayed there for more than two years, provoking negative comments of the non-gallery public who recognized in it, in the façade’s red colour, a communist “heraldry symbol”, a remnant of the past state’s (Yugoslavia’s) ideology.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti, Interdisciplinarno umjetničko polje

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