Exhibition catalogue, 1995.
ISBN 953-96323-0-7
238 pages, 26 x 21 cm
Bilingual (Croatian / English), softcover
Publisher: SCCA Zagreb
Editor: Branka Stipančić

Authors: Antun Maračić, Branka Stipančić, Darko Šimičić, Dean Jokanović
Toumin, Goran Rem, Gorki Žuvela, Igor Zidić, Jadranka Vinterhalter, Janka
Vukmir, Josip Stošić, Lada Dražin Trbuljak, Leonida Kovač, Marijan Molnar,
Marijan Susovski , Mladen Lučić, Mladen Stilinović, Nada Beroš, Pino Ivančić, Sandra Križić Roban, Sanja Iveković, Spomenka Nikitović, Tomislav Gotovac, Tonko Maroević, Vlado Martek, Vlastimir Kusik, Željko Kipke, Zlatan Dumanić, Zvonimir Mrkonjić

Artists: Nini Cinotti, Zlatan Dumanić, Ivan Faktor, Tomislav Gotovac,
Aleksandar Ilić, Pino Ivančić, Sanja Iveković, Anto Jerković, Dean Jokanović
Toumin, Željko Kipke, Branko Lepen, Vlado Martek, Marijan Molnar, Mladen
Stilinović, Josip Stošić, Goran Trbuljak, Gorki Žuvela.

For the first annual exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary
Art – Zagreb, we selected a theme that would have been sufficiently
open for various artistic orientations, various generations of artists
and various media, but would nevertheless provide a central point
around which individual stories can be organized.
The theme of using and incorporating words in the works of art has
not been properly studied or presented in Croatia at the time we
started this project in 1994, although since the 1950s there have
been many artists and groups whose work offers abundant material
for research.The exhibition Words and Images encompassed works that contain
words and text regardless of the media the works were made in.
We opted for a relevant subject with a foothold in the past to
emphasize the continuity and allow enough space for elaboration.
The exhibition presented recent works: paintings, sculptures,
objects, installations, video installations, etc., made specifically for
this occasion.
The accompanying catalogue comprises of two parts. The first part
starts with an introductory text with a historical overview of the
subject, presentations of works of contemporary artists previously
exhibited and few interviews, and the second part comprises texts
following the works selected and/or produced for the exhibition.
Texts are accompanied with a lot of visual material and
reproductions of the works.
Branka Stipančić, exhibition’s curator and catalogue’s editor is the
first director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art – Zagreb, and
a freelance curator who is an expert on Croatian contemporary art.