Regular day at the Museum vs. Long Night of Museums
The Grand Opening
Medium is the message, but what is the message?
If you can't make it good, make it big and make it red
The significance of attributes
Art & art (& art & art & art)
(Art) Point of Sale
The Institution
I hate art (but what's art got to do with it?)
I hate art (but what's art got to do with it?)
// series of 9 drawings, mixed media on paper, 2018.
// This series was created as a kind of analytical take on one of my "I hate art" moments (let's face it, artists always have love-hate relationship with what they do). I have decided to step back and ask myself what is actually that what I hate, is it the art itself, or the system of values that has developed from and around it? The idea was to depict typical situations and relations I have noticed as recurring. Some are more universal, and some are more specific for the context of Croatian cultural scene. I decided to finish the series with a kind of self-portrait, eponymous to the series title, still leaving the question open for further discussion, but facing with the fact that, after all, I don't really hate art.
* Not to stay confused, the artworks in drawings are abstracted to simple forms just for reason to stay no-name objects, around which dynamics of relations are built. Shown situations mostly do belong to modern&contemporary museums/galleries/art scene context, because, well, they are contemporary, and not because I intended to mock or disvalue something. I am a huge, huge fan of abstract expressionism and mid-20 century painting, so if there is a bit of mocking in my works, it is only from pure affection and with love.
