[Full title: Akcije pisanja: bol u tekstu : 1977 – 1996./
Writing actions: pain in the text: 1977 – 1996]
Textbook, 1997.
ISBN 953-6010-48-8
144 pages, 20.3 x 16 cm
In Croatian only, softcover
Publishers: SCCA Zagreb & Naklada MD, Zagreb
Biblioteka VAL / biblioteka Duchamp
Editors: Janka Vukmir, Miroslav Mićanović

Akcije pisanja / Writing actions are a collection of reflexive pre-poet’s
records, of which a part was previously published in prestigious
cultural and art publications, and a part is being published in this book
for the first time.
Texts are thematically organized into topics: pre-poet, poetry, pre
poetry, writing, anti-politics, painting, ethics.
Vlado Martek’s work is considered unavoidable in the studies of
Croatian contemporary art.

The book was published as part of a series of publications devoted to
authors from the Group of Six Artists, whose retrospective exhibition
was organised by the Institute for Contemporary Art in Zagreb in 1998,
after which the exhibition was presented in other Croatian and other
cities internationally.

Vlado Martek, conceptual artist and poet (Zagreb, 1951). Graduated
from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 1976. In the period from
1975-1978 he is active as part of the informal Croup of Six Authors,
participating in their action-exhibitions and contributing to the start of
a catalogue-magazine MAJ 75. From 1978 to 1991 he exhibited in the
alternative galleries Podrum and Prošireni mediji. Martek’s art works
include agitations, installations, ambiances, murals, various
anonymous actions, drawings, graphics, paintings, collages aned poetic
objects. He does land art and sculpture, writes poetry, essays and
graffiti. He also authored numerous samizdats containing verse,
drawings, graphics and photographs. He is interested in the
phenomenon of language, close to conceptualism, successfully
synthesizing the originality of expression and the aesthetics of
sophistication. He publishes his texts in exhibition catalogues,
monographs and magazines.