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Vojin BakicGraz Kunstverein will be hosting an exhibition featuring the Yugoslav-Croatian sculptor and architect Vojin Bakic († 1992).04 June 2008 - 24 August 2008 Bakic’s work occupies a key position in the art of former Yugoslavia: during the Cold War, abstraction in art was made the arena for quite different and opposing ideologies and their interpretations or appropriations. Bakic’s work rejected such simplifications from the 1950s onwards by employing abstraction - as an artistic grammar of forms – inside of the official, socialist art system. With his independent and wilful stance within the state art system, he questioned the polarity between which many artists in eastern Europe had chosen till then: conformity, or a withdrawal into the private sphere. Instead of responding to the demands of this either-or and abandoning artistic issues in favour of one or other of the ideologies, he decided to centre his attention on the conflict between the positions. Bakic’s art, the successes and difficulties he encountered during his life, as well as the current disregard that is shown towards him from official Croatian quarters, provide a touchstone with which one can explore various problems and figures in the post-socialist arena.Location:
Grazer Kunstverein
Sören Grammel Phone: +43 316834141 Fax: +43 316834142 Palais Thinnfeld, Mariahilferstr. 2 8020 - Graz, Austria http://www.grazerkunstverein.org Sponsors:
Erste Bank
Kontakt. The Arts and Civil Society Program of Erste Group Phone: +43 (0)5 0100 - 11092 Fax: +43 (0)5 0100 - 9 11092 Milchgasse 1 1010 - Vienna, Austria http://www.kontakt.erstebankgroup.net related projects |
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