[spectre] Exhibition, "The More I Look, The More I See", Nov 10 - Dec 10 2010

[galerija galzenica]

"The More I Look, The More I See"

November 10 - December 10 2010 in Galženica Gallery (Velika 
Gorica/Zagreb) at 7 p.m.

Artists: Giuseppe di Bella, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei & Jonas Staal, 
Les Liens Invisibles, David Smithson, Tea Tupajić

Artists’ talk will be held at the gallery on the day of the exhibition, 
November 10, beginning at 6 p.m. The talk will be recorded and available 
in audio format at http://galzenica.posterous.com/

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The last exhibition from this year's cycle dedicated to the heritage of 
the 20th century avant-garde art presents authors whose work refers to 
the actual political reality.

Giuseppe Di Bella, an Italian artist located in London, turns to the war 
in Iraq and by using images from the infamous prison Abu Ghraib in an 
unusual way, he unambiguously places contemporary wars in the Middle 
East into a long tradition of colonial conquests.

On the other hand, David Smithson's video installation, inspired by the 
imaginarium of refugees and nomads, tries to draw attention to poverty, 
which is increasingly and more selectively hitting the until recently 
protected population of the Western world.

The work by Les Liens Invisibles, the group known for their 
controversial work in which they invited users of Facebook to commit 
virtual suicide, will show how this phenomenon is connected with the 
mediation of reality via the Internet.

Two works will try to present the global principles of social and 
political violence in the local context, both of which are inspired by 
the Srebrenica massacre. Dutch artists Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei and 
Jonas Stall tackled the conservative role of the Dutch battalion in the 
Srebrenica massacre, while Tea Tupajić's sound installation, more 
poetically than analytically, faced the Srebrenica tragedy as one of the 
more significant tragedies in modern Europe.


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