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.

The exhibition opens on March 13, 2015 at 20:00 hours, the Institute for Contemporary Art.

“… 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 Grgic

Antonio Grgić, born in 1973., graduated architecture at the University of Zagreb. He works within visual arts.
His main interest are urban interventions and performances that question relations between ideological, social and personal psychological forces in the urban environment. The time as an important part of that equation is also being questioned with his works.
He developed several urban plastics in Croatia and Memorial sculpture park on the site of the first concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia during the WWII; Danica near Koprivnica.
He has exhibited in Croatia and abroad. He writes prose and poetry, and articles on the theory of space, theory and history of architecture and fine arts.
He has participated in a number of art festivals: Street Art Festival, Koprivnica; FIUK, Koprivnica; Perforations, Split; Days of performance, Varaždin; My country, Štaglinec; Festival at Ironworks, Sisak.
www.antoniogrgic.com

Exhibition remains open until Friday, March 20, 2015.
gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12 – 7 pm

[Current programs]
Exhibition Josip Stošić (1935 – 2009), P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, until 10.3.
Exhibition Igor Kuduz, Ever Since, Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb until 11.3.
Open Call – (HR only) Poziv za prijedlog dizajna logotipa, until 1.4.

“… 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 Grgic

Antonio Grgić, born in 1973., graduated architecture at the University of Zagreb. He works within visual arts.
His main interest are urban interventions and performances that question relations between ideological, social and personal psychological forces in the urban environment. The time as an important part of that equation is also being questioned with his works.
He developed several urban plastics in Croatia and Memorial sculpture park on the site of the first concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia during the WWII; Danica near Koprivnica.
He has exhibited in Croatia and abroad. He writes prose and poetry, and articles on the theory of space, theory and history of architecture and fine arts.
He has participated in a number of art festivals: Street Art Festival, Koprivnica; FIUK, Koprivnica; Perforations, Split; Days of performance, Varaždin; My country, Štaglinec; Festival at Ironworks, Sisak.
www.antoniogrgic.com

Exhibition remains open until Friday, March 20, 2015.
gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12 – 7 pm

[Current programs]
Exhibition Josip Stošić (1935 – 2009), P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, until 10.3.
Exhibition Igor Kuduz, Ever Since, Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb until 11.3.
Open Call – (HR only) Poziv za prijedlog dizajna logotipa, until 1.4.