THE GARDEN OF DELIGHTS
National Gallery of BiH, 02/27/2014 - 05/30/2014
ABOUT
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-- The work emulates manual tombstone engraving, which I did before enrolling in the Academy of Arts.
-- The installation contains more than 100 tombstone motifs found and collected in the Central Balkans.
-- People mainly choose these motifs as illustrations of their indulgences and because they wish to see them immortalised by means of the realistic.
-- The emergence of this type of representation coincided with the rise of the kitsch and turbo-folk culture in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
-- The scenery as shown in the painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by the Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch provided the foundation for this work.
-- The work is the outcome of a five-hundred-year-long debate and revises the notion of pleasure and its different contemporary representations as a stereotypical and pessimistic view of society.
-- The form of the image of a personal indulgence becomes an expression of the collective absurd and discord.
-- In this case, the graveyard is an area storing an encyclopaedia of images of individual lives joined to form a garden of a collective eternity.
* Exhibition project was presented at 55th Venice Biennale - Internationla exhibition of Contemporary Art as pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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-- The work emulates manual tombstone engraving, which I did before enrolling in the Academy of Arts.
-- The installation contains more than 100 tombstone motifs found and collected in the Central Balkans.
-- People mainly choose these motifs as illustrations of their indulgences and because they wish to see them immortalised by means of the realistic.
-- The emergence of this type of representation coincided with the rise of the kitsch and turbo-folk culture in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
-- The scenery as shown in the painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by the Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch provided the foundation for this work.
-- The work is the outcome of a five-hundred-year-long debate and revises the notion of pleasure and its different contemporary representations as a stereotypical and pessimistic view of society.
-- The form of the image of a personal indulgence becomes an expression of the collective absurd and discord.
-- In this case, the graveyard is an area storing an encyclopaedia of images of individual lives joined to form a garden of a collective eternity.