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 inaugurazione sabato 14 marzo ore 18

Carnet de Miart - DAVID MALJKOVIC

carnet de miart

DAVID MALJKOVIC 

http://www.carnetdemiart.it/italian-wallpapers/david-maljkovic-the-fair/

Every two weeks, Carnet de miart presents a newly commissioned artwork representing one artist’s interpretation of the topics discussed in the magazine. All images will be downloadable to be potentially used as desktop wallpaper: an ironic means of furtherer investigating the meaning of installing the work of an artist in a private space—as on someone’s personal computer. In this issue:

David Maljkovic (born in 1973 in Rijeka, Croatia; lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia).

The work of David Maljkovic demonstrates a high degree of formalist imagination. Whatever the narrative or subject matter that prompts a project, the result does not just mediate or describe this narration, but encrypts it, even comments upon it from above, to open up new semantic processes. His work investigates the arbitrary relationship between form and content, signifier and signified, and this investigation is the key preoccupation and strategy of his artistic process. In these gaps, Maljkovic exposes the erosion of memory and the corruption of information, confronting the visitor with a wearing down of meanings and a destabilisation of our senses through the effects of time and technology. As a response to this defective memory, Maljkovic has adopted collage as a formal principle, recombining photographs, films, projected images and sound pieces from his own personal archive. He makes use of operations of dislocation, subtraction and juxtaposition to move towards new conceptual horizons.

Among Maljkovic recent solo exhibitions: Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven to BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, GAMeC, Bergamo, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Seccesion, Vienna, Whitechapel, London, CAPC Musee d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux,  Kunstmuseum Sankt Gallen, CAC Vilnius,  Kunsthalle Basel,  SculptureCenter, New York,  MOMA PS1. His work has been included in group shows at Kunsthaus Bregenz, MAXXI Rome, MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon, Spain, The Power Plant, Toronto, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels and Centre Pompidou, Paris and La Triennale 2012, Paris,  29th Sao Paulo Biennial, 11th and 9th Istanbul Biennial. His work is part of major public collections such as Centre Pompidou, Paris, MUMOK, Vienna, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, MOMA, New York, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and Tate Collection, London.

For Carnet de miart, the artist created a wallpaper from a image that is deconstructing an archive photo of the Italian pavilion at the world fair in Zagreb, a key element of modern history of architecture at the time of Tito. The pavilion was designed by Neapolitan architect Giuseppe Sambito, and after the period of prestigious use and consideration enjoyed in the ’60s and ’70s is now in a state of semi-abandonment. In 2009, David Maljkovic took the opportunity to study throughout the work of Sambito, basing on the assumption that there are few elements available for those who want to do research on this architect. Today, he has transformed that imagery into a wallpaper. “The location sounds a note of irony” said the artist speaking about the work: “during the Cold War, the site served as a connection to the West and provided some economic and cultural exchange with a wider circle of trading partners.” The image becomes even more intriguing as the opening of the World Expo in Milan gets closer and closer.

PAOLO GIOLI e JOEL-PETER WITKIN: 17 gennaio - 6 marzo 2015

Inaugurazione sabato 17 gennaio con gli artisti.