New Materialisms
(Station 03.01).
Institute for Contemporary Art,
Trg kralja Tomislava 20, Zagreb
Opening: Friday, June 17, at 20 p.m.
June 17 – July 2, 2016
Artists:
Alexei Blinov, Martin Callanan, Vladislav Knežević, Špela Petrič / Miha Turšič, Goran Trbuljak
Curator: Darko Fritz / grey) (area – space for contemporary and media art
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New Materialisms (Station 03.02)
emerging dispersive exhibition, Korčula 2016
Goran Trbuljak: Untitled
Korčula Town Museum, Korčula
June 17 – September 30, 2016
Curators: Darko Fritz / grey) (area – space for contemporary and media art and HICA Highland Institute for Contemporary Art
New Materialisms explores the German philosopher Max Bense’s identification of the ‘aesthetic condition’, and his proposition that ‘the aesthetic condition is as material as the physical condition of any observed object’. His analysis pursued the pattern of ‘programs for the production of aesthetic conditions’, and was often used as the starting point of the early digital art in the 1960s and 1970s.
New Materialisms project reflects historically divergent art practices and discursive fields of concrete and conceptual art, as defined in the 1960s. Project tackles understanding of those art practices through the discourse of post-media contemporary approaches to art as well as via post-digital condition of our every day life, whereby digitality is interwoven with each aspect of our social being.
New Materialisms strives to formulate a dialogue among important authors of concrete and conceptual art and contemporary practitioners who work within the post-media context, while assuming the design of aesthetical experience as vital mechanism which has its agency in the process of creating the physical world.
New Materialisms series is a long-term program of exhibitions and lectures that has been developed in a collaborative process between grey) (area – space for contemporary and media art from Korčula and HICA (Highlands Institute for Contemporary Art) from Scotland. This guest exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Zagreb is the third exhibition in a row, and it is conceptualized as the selection of works from the previous two exhibitions that took place in Korčula and Scotland in 2015, as well as the selection of works which will be presented in the frame of the upcoming exhibitions in Korčula in 2016.
The exhibition is actually taking place at two locations and marks the tenth anniversary of grey) (area that has been exhibiting contemporary and media art in Korčula since 2006. Simultaneously with exhibiting Goran Trbuljak’s art work in Zagreb, that same work is being exhibited in Korčula Town Museum as well. It is a work without a title, and it consists of the hand counter which the author uses for counting people who (for the first time) have attended his solo exhibitions since 1970.
http://sivazona.hr/exhibitions/new-materialisms-station-3
photo: Vladislav Knežević, Binary Pitch, video still