[spectre] grey) (area . Ilija Šoškić: Tautologies

Darko Fritz darko at darkofritz.net
Sat Jul 6 09:49:11 CEST 2019


grey) (area – space for contemporary and media art

Tautologies

Ilija Šoškić

artist talk
free entrance

On Saturday, July 6, 2019, grey) (area – space for contemporary and media art in the city of Korčula will open its 2019 summer season with the artist talk in the Summer Cinema of the city of Korčula. Artist talk by Ilija Šoškić will be moderated by Darko Fritz, the founder and art director of grey) (area.
Ilija Šoškić has been presenting his work in the media of performance and installation since the end of 1960s. During his residence on the island of Korčula in July 2019, grey) (area will produce a new work of Ilija Šoškić. The backbone of that work is made through Šoškić's previous works which were carried out on the island of Hydra, where Šoškić lived and worked with Jannis Kounellis, as well as through numerous video-essays dedicated to ecology and the olive tree as the most pronounced symbol of the Mediterranean culture.  
 
Ilija Šoškić was born in 1935. in Dečani and  lives and works in Rome. He attended the School of Applied Arts in Herceg Novi, the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade and Accademia di belle arti in Bologne. From 1969 to 1972 he lived in Bologna. Since 1972 he has mostly lived in Rome (a period between 1993 and 1995 he spent on the island of Hydra where he worked with Jannis Kounellis). Šoškić stepped into the flame of Italian art scene with the exhibition in the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara in 1972, where he was active together with other great personalities of Italian and global avant garde, such as: Kounellis, Pistoletto, Baselitz, Chiao, Cucchi, Kosuth, Ontani, Acconci, Prini, De Dominicis, to mention just a few.
More info: http://sivazona.hr/events/govor-moru
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