[aha] Exhibition, "The More I Look, The More I See", Nov 10 - Dec 10 2010

[Dedalus]

"The More I Look, The More I See"

November 10 - December 10 2010 in Galženica Gallery (Velika Gorica/Zagreb) at 7 p.m.

Artists: Giuseppe di Bella, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei & Jonas Staal, Les Liens Invisibles, David Smithson, Tea Tupajić

Artists’ talk will be held at the gallery on the day of the exhibition, November 10, beginning at 6 p.m. The talk will be recorded and available in audio format at http://galzenica.posterous.com/


The last exhibition from this year's cycle dedicated to the heritage of the 20th century avant-garde art presents authors whose work refers to the actual political reality.

Giuseppe Di Bella, an Italian artist located in London, turns to the war in Iraq and by using images from the infamous prison Abu Ghraib in an unusual way, he unambiguously places contemporary wars in the Middle East into a long tradition of colonial conquests.

On the other hand, David Smithson's video installation, inspired by the imaginarium of refugees and nomads, tries to draw attention to poverty, which is increasingly and more selectively hitting the until recently protected population of the Western world.

The work by Les Liens Invisibles, the group known for their controversial work in which they invited users of Facebook to commit virtual suicide, will show how this phenomenon is connected with the mediation of reality via the Internet.

Two works will try to present the global principles of social and political violence in the local context, both of which are inspired by the Srebrenica massacre. Dutch artists Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei and Jonas Stall tackled the conservative role of the Dutch battalion in the Srebrenica massacre, while Tea Tupajić's sound installation, more poetically than analytically, faced the Srebrenica tragedy as one of the more significant tragedies in modern Europe.


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visto la Madonna.
Io sono un cretino che la Madonna non l'ha vista mai.
Tutto consiste in questo, vedere la Madonna o non vederla."


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