The exhibition titled
Transition
presents works by
three artists/artist groups
who share a common characteristic feature: their central theme is the
reflection on and the process of dramatic social events
. The exhibition focuses on the works of
Blue Noses group
,
Oleg Kulik
and
Josip Vaništa
.
Oleg Kulik
has become worldwide known in the 1990’s. His
radical actions
– where the artist appeared as a dog –, have attracted enormous attention from the West, and were interpreted as
pungent critics targeting Russian society and contemporary art institution system
.
Works by
artist group Blue Noses
fit into the tradition of
Russian absurd
. Their most characteristic artistic genres are
jokes, gags, sketches and improvisations
, recorded by a camera, and presenting the ever frail “little man” as main figure.
Josip Vaništa
, a doyen of the
Croatian neo-Avant-garde art
, is the founder of the famous
Gorgona artist group
. On his collages selected for this exhibition, the artist follows the transitions of the Croatian society from the beginning of the Yugoslavian wars to the beginning of the third millennium.
