Eliconie

dal 20/2/2015 al 27/3/2015

The artist showcases works from the A Time of Renewal, For Goethe’s Eyes, Donau and Die Pflanzen series of photographs.

Malešević’s photographs represent a unique intimate visual diary. On the associative level the artist connects what he observes and what he (sometimes apocalyptically) imagines, while the gap between these, between the seen and the idealised, constitute a space of artist’s pleasure. The photograph thus becomes a stage where at any moment something can happen unexpectedly. It is the cinematographic quality of the scene/sight that matters to Malešević when taking a photo.

Moreover, it is not its relation with the truth, and quite often it is as if the selected frames do not belong to reality or as if they appear as a space in which one can imagine the sequences of a film taking place. Or even more accurate, he creates a poetic narrative of what changes and does not stop changing, a testimony within the reach of the elusive. Nenad Malešević obviously shares the same conviction as he attempts to preserve and perpetuate the present moment, in order to turn it into duration, as if by magic. The exhibition showcases works from the A Time of Renewal, For Goethe’s Eyes, Donau and Die Pflanzen series of photographs.

“What the photographs document in the first place are the fragments of personal memories, the pictures of places that are significant to me, perhaps even places where I can imagine the action of a film taking place; in short, these are the sequences that surround memory with pleasure. Thus, these fragments are no documentary story about the state of society or political and economic problems. On the whole, I do not tend to use art to impose any kind of critical, that is, emancipatory and well calculated practice, which is relevant for the civil society establishment. I am interested in documenting and archiving of what is not meaningfully defined and concluded in its manifestation structure, ordinariness or exceptionality.” (Nenad Malešević)

Nenad Malešević was born 1981 in Sarajevo. He graduated at the graphic department of the Academy of Arts, University of Banja Luka, and later finished his MA from theory and media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He is co-founder and member of Protok, Centre for Visual Studies and author of numerous theoretical text on art and media. He is active as a professor of graphic design at the Slobomir P University and as independent visual artist. He lives and works in Belgrade.

The exhibition is organised in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Republika Srpska from Banja Luka
Image: Nenad Malesevic

Opening: 20 February 2015

Gallery Photon
Trg prekomorskih brigad 1
1107 Ljubljana, Slovenia
http://www.photon.si/si/

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