Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more (Flickr gallery)
The Aim is the work of artist Marko Tadić perceived as an abstract archive, which speaks more about itself through the whole than through individual elements. The exhibition creates a pensive space by recycling working materials, pedestals and other exhibition apparatus found in the gallery archive. The exhibition space thus becomes a polygon within which various narratives are applied through the media of drawings, paintings and sculptures within the ambient installation.
The exhibition opens on Thursday, September 7 at 8 p.m. in the Filodrammatica Gallery (→ Korzo 28/1, Rijeka), where it will remain until September 28.
Gallery opening hours:
Monday – Friday 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. | 4 – 8 p.m.
Saturday 4 – 8 p.m.
© Marko Tadić, courtesy of the artist
In the narrative background of the exhibition, Tadić incorporates urban systems in revelation, the merging of natural growth processes with the processes of city development, aesthetics that follow function, nature that imposes the logic of living together and ecological optimism in the organism/mechanism of the city.
Referring to the huge problem of the accumulation of art displays that are either thrown away or stored without a future perspective after the exhibition, Tadić through the exhibition setting expresses the simple need to recycle pedestals and exhibition apparatus, and to give them a more permanent function through the creative process.
© Marko Tadić, courtesy of the artist
Shards and fragments are a feature of Tadić’s work. As something that has been eliminated by other facts and events, and replaced by new value systems and meanings, shards and fragments point to the emergence of something repressed, disappearing, removed, replaced. Shards and fragments that spring from Tadić’s personal experience and memories form elements for bricolage that creates a new ambience, into which the audience is invited to project meanings, possibilities and alternative worlds that reveal a different perspective and open up space for dialogue, and even conflict, with dominant paradigms.
Tadić consciously avoids approaching the past through its connotative stylization – which Roland Barthes describes as “supplying images and stereotypical idealizations” – creating completely new environments in which shards and fragments do not serve the past, but the present.
☛Filodrammatica Gallery, Korzo 28/1, Rijeka
EXHIBITION OPENING:
Thursday, September 7, at 8 p.m.
GALLERY OPENING HOURS:
MON-FRI from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. & from 4 to 8 p.m.
SAT 4 to 8 p.m.
(closed on Sundays and public holidays; contact us to arrange another time of your visit)
MARKO TADIĆ
