Hi Johannes,
I do wish you could do a walk-through of the exhibition w/ video and in
English or subtitled - it comes through awkwardly for me and god knows
we're all interested in this!
love, Alan, be well -
On Thu, 6 Jun 2024, Johannes Birringer via NetBehaviour wrote:
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 10:29:15 +0200
From: Johannes Birringer via NetBehaviour
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To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
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Cc: Johannes Birringer <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] "After the battle..."
Dear all,
some of you noted that our list is relatively quiet, and I am guessing there
are good reasons for it. We live in times when so many polarizing and
aggressive words are exchanged, and the rivers are rising (in the place
where I live).
But here, an announcement of an exhibition we recently opened at the gallery
where I work now (and on our website, front page, you find a link to a short
video from opening night):
After the battle all generals are fucked
Dream worlds on canvas by Bojan ?umonja & Marko Jak?e
Gallery Puzic?, Johannisstrasse 3A, 66111 Saarbru?cken, Germany // duration of
the exhibition 14/5. ? 19/6, 2024
https://gallery-puzic.com/
Gallery Puzi? cordially invites you to the presentation of two of the most
important and renowned artists in Central Europe
? Bojan ?umonja (Croatia) and Marko Jak?e (Slovenia). Bojan ?umonja is rightly
considered one of the most famous and recognized Croatian visual
artists of the last decades. He has exhibited independently over 100 times
across Europe and in
the USA. His works have, among others, been presented at independent
exhibitions in Venice,
Milan, Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, Klagenfurt, Graz, Brussels, Ljubljana,
Luxembourg, New
Orleans, Zagreb, Dubrovnik and throughout Croatia. In his richly baroque
compositions, sheep,
gaunt flamingos, birds, downtrodden refugees and superheroes often appear,
in sometimes absurd
and dangerous scenarios of ecological, social and political catastrophes or
dystopian landscapes.
At the same time, complex ironic references (for which the artist was
celebrated as the first
?postmodernist? on the Croatian scene) wander through these dark battlefields -
quotes from silent films (Buster Keaton), classical art and Pop Art appear,
little Easter bunnies and other
cartoons figures run around after the battle. Or herds of people bow down
like African ostriches,
hiding their heads in the sand. ?umonja?s most recent paintings, as well as the
?collective? works
(One Dollar Bill) with Marko Jak?e, radiate striking chromatic peculiarities
and combine versatile
motifs and spatial systems.
The Slovenian artist Marko Jak?e is appreciated by art experts for his
expressive works with
contrasting elements and imaginative, poetic scenarios. For more than 30
years, his artistic
visions have been inspiring audiences with complex and multifaceted works
that have a unique
appeal and have already been awarded many prizes. Among many other
exhibition venues,
Marko Jak?e represented Slovenia at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022). A strong
source of
inspiration is the animal and plant world. The painterly results are
surreal-seeming worlds that
highlight the beauty of nature but also intertwine completely fantastic,
strange and surreal
elements.
The sarcastic title of our exhibition is aimed at the innovative image and
style combinations of
the two painters, whose fictional, mutated or real characters/natures
capture our imagination,
looking at us with strange grimaces, and also turn into melancholy dreams.
What is also quite
unusual for our Western artworld scene is the fact that the two artists
worked as a collective for
this exhibition, i.e. the paintings were designed and developed by both of
them together.
regards
Johannes Birringer
Concept Manager / Gallery Puzic?
https://gallery-puzic.com/
On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 at 08:00, AGF <[email protected]> wrote:
hi dear, your posts are welcome!
agee
> On 6. Jun 2024, at 6.56, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> */i'm honestly not trying to dominate this list, i am
more than
> willing to stop posting here if others will post, sad to
see this
> quiet/*
>
> dark rasa / sickness
>
> https://youtu.be/IkW_-wzOIgY video
>
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