{"id":3513,"date":"2018-03-28T08:27:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T08:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2018-03-28T08:27:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T08:27:19","slug":"exhibition-martina-grlic-memory-and-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/2018\/03\/exhibition-martina-grlic-memory-and-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"EXHIBITION: MARTINA GRLI\u0106 \u2013 MEMORY AND CONFLICT"},"content":{"rendered":"

MARTINA GRLI\u0106<\/b>
\nMemory and conflict<\/strong>
\nKaras Gallery<\/strong>
\nApril 4 \u2013 April 15, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Opening of the exhibition: Wednesday, April 4 at 7pm\u00a0at the Karas Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Exhibition Memory and conflict<\/strong>, by Martina Grli\u0107, the winner of the HBP Award for Young Artists<\/strong> at the 4th Biennial of Painting last year, will be opened on Wednesday, April 4 at 7pm<\/strong>\u00a0at the Karas Gallery (Zvonimirova 58).<\/p>\n

A series of paintings by Martina Grli\u0107 titled Memorija i konflikt<\/em> [Memory and Conflict] <\/em>comprises two groups of works that are connected both by their theme and by the manner in which they explore the medium. The first group includes paintings created on the basis of archival footage from the last Day of Youth in 1987 (1)\u00a0(the polyptych Lice iz gomile<\/em> [A Face from the Crowd] <\/em>and Vatromet<\/em> [Fireworks]<\/em>, 2018). The second group consists of works based on archival footage showing the President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Vo\u0111a [Leader]<\/em>, 2018), his wife Jovanka Broz (Prva dama [First Lady]<\/em>, 2018) and ideological memorabilia; wreaths and medals that mark the space and time of socialist utopia (Vijenac [Wreath]<\/em>, 2018 and Ordenje<\/em> [Medals]<\/em>, 2018). (…)<\/p>\n

(…) \u00a0For seven more years after having been relocated to the starry crevice, the complex strategical situation of Josip Broz Tito (the power) exercised its power using symbols, commemorative festivities and inscriptions of memories and remembrance into time and space. In her series Memorija i konflikt<\/em> [Memory and Conflict]<\/em>, the artist does not deify that time and space, but in fact shows the complete iconography of one of the potential cultures of memory. Martina Grli\u0107 acts as an artist-ethnographer,(2)\u00a0recording and transforming fragments of past times that are more and more disappearing in the virtual society. In our interview she emphasised that she liked the finite nature of photography (factography) and the possibility to radically alter it through a painting. The fact that she imitates photography, as does Gerhard Richter, using a medium (painting) that is older than photography (3)\u00a0is just another piece of the mosaic in her examination of the past. Within it, one can simultaneously gaze upon the starry sky and stand in a queue for a holiday- novella at Makhinjauri.<\/p>\n

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(From catalogue preface, written by\u00a0Josip Zanki, PhD)<\/p>\n

(1) The Day of Youth was a commemorative festivity from the era of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia which commemorated the birthday of the lifetime president Josip Broz Tito (1892 \u2013 1980). It also continued after his death.
\n(2) Cf. Foster, Hal \u201cThe Artist as Ethnographer\u201d. In: Foster, Hal The Return of the Real. MIT Press, Cambridge MA 1996
\n(3) Cf. Belting, Hans An Anthropology of Images. Picture, Medium, Body. Princeton University Press, Princeton, Oxford, 2011, p. 31<\/p>\n

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Preface<\/a><\/p>\n

About the artist<\/a><\/p>\n

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Supported by:<\/p>\n

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Working hours:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday and Friday: 9am to 3pm | Thursday: 3pm to 7pm | Saturday and Sunday: 9am to 12am
\nMondays, Tuesdays and holidays: closed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The exhibition will remain open until April 15, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MARTINA GRLI\u0106
Memory and conflict
Karas Gallery
April 4 \u2013 April 15, 2018<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Opening of the exhibition: Wednesday, April 4 at 7pm\u00a0at the Karas Gallery<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Exhibition Memory and conflict, by Martina Grli\u0107, the winner of the HBP Award for Young Artists at the 4th Biennial […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1,4],"tags":[14,366,207,669],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}