Igor Kuduz: Love Letters and Panegyrics [Igor Kuduz Remix]
Wedensday, November 9, 2016 @ 7:00 p.m.
Promotion and books reading My Dear Noble Friend and Panegyrics [Igor Kuduz Remix]
With: Igor Kuduz, Marko Golub and Janka Vukmir

Two books by Igor Kuduz, one of which was published in 2014, and the other in 2016 are not, as you might expect, artists’ books full of visual material, photos, or designs. In fact, their form and their content are determined in advance by default. Author intervened only by his selection of materials, only to limit their dimensions, since both could be encyclopaedic in size.
My Dear Noble Friend is a book of short stories and love letters, many of which you have already read, or have them thrown in the trash before you even had a glimpse of their dramatic content.
Panegyrics are for contrast, short poems, literary limericks and slogans, miniature confessions, erotic or sexual cries, but also much more than just what you can expect.
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A friend sent me this book for upload months ago and of course I’m late as usual, but you should definitely take a look at it! He’s a designer, photographer and artist, but always wants us to think that he doesn’t take himself too seriously, at least in the latter two cases. So, here you are folks meet – Igor! Igor uses technology quite a lot in his work, but insists on using it in the most naive way possible. For example, one time he made a short story collection, a book consisting exclusively of spam messages and e-mail scams, such as fake dating invitations or those little stories about people from a far-away country who want to transfer millions of dollars to your bank account. It’s as if those little life stories, whether they’re sad or tragic or sexual in nature were all true. I also remember that one time he went to Paris – the Mecca of postcard imagery and started a photo diary on Facebook but only took photos of those unremarkable places you find on the edges of any other city. Places so unrecognizable, yet so familiar, so true to our own experience. He almost exclusively uses his cellphone camera and documents everything his long walks, social gatherings, the people he meets in trains and buses, insignificant things that loom in the corner of the room during our conversations. He keeps all those images and later structures them into narratives. Each folder a different one. I have no idea what this particular thing is but I’m sure it will blow you away. See for yourself!
Marko Golub; Foreward to Panegyrics
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Igor Kuduz, (Zagreb, 1967) is a visual artist and graphic designer, professor at the Department of Media Design, University North, Koprivnica One of the founders of the Institute for Contemporary Art. Member of the Expert council of Croatian Photographic Union. Member of the Management Board of the Croatian Designers Society.
He has exhibited at shows and video festivals in Zagreb, Split, Ljubljana, Clermont-Ferrand, Bonn, Budapest, Berlin, Aachen, Dessau, Tirana, Cairo, Trieste, New York …