Exhibition
Vojin Bakic
From 4th of June until 24th of August 2008, Graz Kunstverein will be hosting an exhibition curated by the Croatian women curators collective WHW (what, how & for whom), featuring the Yugoslav-Croatian sculptor and architect Vojin Bakic († 1992).
The exhibition will take into account the political and contextual complexity of Bakic’s position by means of a comprehensive documentary section, which will focus on the history of Bakic’s reception both in socialist Yugoslavia and post-socialist Croatia. His work also serves as an important fulcrum when considering the Yugoslavian post- and retro- avant-gardes of the 1960s and ‘70s, as well more recent approaches (David Maljkovic, for instance, has on a number of occasions quoted the form of Bakic’s monument “Petrova Gora”).
The project is of the utmost importance within the current political context in Europe, which is now marked on the one side by the enlargement of the Union, intercultural exchange, and an active response to its own European history, and on the other by restorational thinking, a blindness towards differences, and the rise of new Nationalisms.
The exhibition will show Bakic’s unique models, sculptures, and even his drafts for public construction projects. In addition, the project will also contain a large body of privately kept works that are still owned by the Bakic family, who have granted permission for the pieces to be restored and presented for the first time in public.
Event Data: 04.06. - 24.08.2008
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