[spectre] Exhibition aBook [artist's book], March 15th - April 12th 2013

[Galerija Galzenica]

Exhibtion "aBook [artist's book]"

on Friday, March 15th from 8.p.m. to 10 p.m. in Galzenica Gallery,
Velika Gorica (Croatia)

Artists: Zvonimir Balog, Vlasta Delimar, Braco Dimitrijević, Fokus
Grupa, Gorgona, Vladimir Gudac,Tina Gverović, Sanja Iveković, Luka
Kedžo, Neva Kiš, Darko Kolibaš, Antun B. Kolumbić, Katalin Ladik,
Branko Maleš, Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos, Sanja Marčetić, Vlado
Martek, Dalibor Martinis, Slavko Matković, Dražen Mazur, Ivan Jelinčić
Merlin, Miron Milić, Bojan Mucko, Martin Peranović, Jelena Perišić,
Ivana Pipal, Barbara Radelja, Sven Razum, Mladen Stilinović, Josip
Stošić, Tea Stražičić, Jaroslav Supek, Balint Szombathy, Marko Tadić,
Stipan Tadić, Miroljub Todorović, Goran Trbuljak, Mario Udženija,
Milko Valent, Borben Vladović i Franci Zagoričnik.

Curators: participants of the Curator's Platform (Zagreb), mentored by
Ana Kovačić, assisted by Mateja Kuka.

* The Curator's Platform is a programme dedicated to additional
theoretical and practial education in the field of contemporary art.
This year's programme comprises three different moduls: Artist's Book
as the Field of Experiment, Fragmented Insight Into the History of
Exhibitory Practices and Curating Arrangements From the 19th Century
Untill Today, Curating on the Network and a field trip to Belgrade. A
special place in the programme was reserved for curating a real
exhibiton as part of the Artist's Book as the Field of Experiment
modul. This gave the participants the opportunity to learn different
methodical, tehnical and theoretical tools regarding the conception
and realisation of contemporary art exhibitions.

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Participants of this year's Curator's platform conducted a research of
a very interesting and actual field . They were divided into six
different groups which were dealing with: definition of artist's book,
historical development, visual poetry, contemporary artist's book and
designer - curator based collaboration. Through numerous examples the
exhibition will show the results of their research.

There are many different definitions of what an artist's book is and
many different ways in which it can take form. What makes the artist's
book a specific medium when compared to other forms of artistic
expression is the fact that one can hold it, read it, touch it and
consequently the artist can achieve an intimate relationship with the
audience. The artists perceive it as a space they can fill and in
doing so, transfer their ideas, attitudes, intimate reflections or
speak out loud about topics they are interested in.

Artist's book is a medium that emerged as part of the avangarde
movements at the beginning of the 20th century, and the conceptual art
of the 1960s. Allthough under this umbrella term we include also
poetry (J. P. Kamov, 1907) and concrete poetry books (Josip Stošić,
Đerdan), the real flourishing of the medium happened with the
emergence of Gorgona group and conceptual artists. (Stilinović,
Trbuljak, Iveković and others)

Part of the exhibition is dedicated to visual poetry which was an
important aspect of the neoavangarde movements in former Yugoslavia,
in the 1960s and the 1970s. Visual poetry is an intermedial art form
between poetry and visual arts. The understanding of language as a
material is what brings them together. Along with visual poetry books
we will also exhibit documentation of the artwork (visual poetry
magazines, exhibition catalogs, essays)

Contemporary artist's books also make an important part of this
exhibition. Young artists use this medium to react to social and
political issues, or reflect their intimate world. Their artist's
books often arise within a wider research, creative process or
development of a later work, allthough for some they can be the
ultimate goal. Often the strict line that seperates the designer's and
the artist's imput is crossed, which can bee seen in the works of UMAS
Design and Visual Communication students.



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