Depliant, 2015
Half A3 size paper, folded
Bilingual, Croatian, English
Text by Janka Vukmir

Exhibition of Antonio Grgić “all data, if you require more space, can be
printed as additional text” is an exhibition about so far unexposed and
unrealized work, with which the author has several times applied the
annual T-HT @ MSU competition and that probably due to its content
never has been accepted for presentation.

It is a proposal which in the case of being realized includes
participation of forcefully fired workers of T-HT (Croatian Telecom,
owned by Deutsche Telekom) a company that is a partner of the
Museum of Contemporary Art and financier of the abovementioned
competition and the associated awards.

“… While in advanced capitalism, criticism grows out of the marginal
position and is integrated with time in the mainstream apparently still
being separated from the system, here, in transition who plays
capitalism although it is not, is a different case. Here the corporate
organizational and media promote an acceptable form of art criticism
does not even trying to maintain the illusion of distance. So
corporations create an image of art that criticizes consumerism and
corporations to sell it as a media product and acceptable criticism of
themselves, packed in a high aesthetic form. Because only corporations
have, as EPH or T-HT, the power to provide sufficient attention
economy that will emerge a product that will wear the halo exquisite
art and whose exposure in the gallery paid sum of corporate scale. This
is the danger of contemporary art which also talks about Baudrillard:
that is no different from the technical, advertising, media, numerical
activities. No more transcendent, becomes a mirror game with the
modern world as it was happening.”
Antonio Grgić