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28.10-10.11.2011 DON’T STARE SO ROMANTICALLY Filip Jovanovski Curator: Mira Gakina
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DON’T
STARE SO ROMANTICALLY
Filip
Jovanovski
Curator:
Mira
Gakina
On
the one hand the idea to a produce a replica of this historic piece of art
is an attempt to set and re-contextualize the meaning of art-making
once again. On the other hand, it emphasizes the local qualities and the
authentic aesthetics (we also have history of arts of our own, we also have
freedom of our own). In other words, holograms should be made in
This
is not to be said ironically, on the contrary, it is to be said in terms of
creating one’s own identity so that there is no pure idea, the idea has to
emerge out of the material possibilities and the quality of the context.
The
question of experiencing and presenting the artistic form in certain context
arises: how to discover the meanings of the existing context
once again, but also to rediscover the context that has to be
redefined as well?
The
exposition creates new context referring to Brecht’s ideal of freedom
(Don’t stare so romantically! Drums in the night) to the ideal of freedom
in the history of art i.e. Delacroix’
s Liberty leading the people and the ideal of freedom in the social
context which is the audio quote of Robespierre’s
Danton’s death in Stevo
Zigon’s speech in front of the students in Belgrade. 1968.
The
project is a fragment/memory of experiencing the ideal of the freedom anew,
in the current context. It deals with replaying history once again,
imitating and referring to the symbol of revolution with our primitive
devices thus bringing to one’s senses the urge and the possibility for
such freedom to be experienced, to liberate ourselves in terms of form and
content from the meaning of the context and to create our own tools in
construction of the personal identity. Freedom is as it is, not the way we
think it is!
Don’t stare so romantically!
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