NO Gallery of MSU (Museum of Contemporary Art), Zagreb
25/04/2014 – 15/05/2014
Haunting
Monumentality was a group exhibition which first premiered in GaleriaPlan B, Berlin in 2012, but since it's first edition it emerged to
become a long-term curatorial research project, minimum a circle, now
rather a saga of exhibitions arriving to it's third stage of
evolution in No Gallery of MSU, Zagreb, after recently appearing also
in Club Electroputere in Craiova.
The
exhibition-series in generel analyze the function of social memory
through the art practices of the exhibitors and how their, our
cognitive abstraction connected to history becomes manifest through
visual signes and symbols in different spaces of different
instituions.
The
first edition questioned the existence of a collective memory based
on consensus, the second already negates such a possibility and
rather declares the impossibility of any total consensus. The new
obscure and timeless utopias, which often seem ecsatic rather than
static, rise from the desert of private interpreations and take us
deep into the realm of abstraction. The third edition of the group
exhibition which is constantly changing it's shape takes a closer
look on art practices of emerging hungarian artists, who deal with or
use abstraction in a rather instinctive and non-referential way.
The
pieces of of the exhibiton which can all be interpreted as vehicles
of the hysteria of history, all try to use abstraction as a
liberative tool of forms which engage the topic of monuments and
monumentality. All monumental forms sensually depicted in this
exhibition frame become interpretable as ephemeral monuments, which
don't refer anymore to the past, or the future, but they become
timeless presence. With their sensuality they try to force the
viewers to follow their paths in this liberating vortex of
abstraction. Thus abstraction becomes a new type of ghostly
monumental presence, which reenacts the function of the monument in
an age when we don’t have much clear and definiable knowledge left
about thruth and moral as a society. The thirs Zagreb edition
summarises and synthetases the outcomes of the first two exhibitions,
but walks even more and more towards the edge of the razor.
exhibiting
artists:
Adrián Kiss
Márton Nemes
Péter Puklus
Péter Szabó
Ádám Ulbert
curator:
Áron Fenyvesi
text by Áron Fenyvesi
