16 October - 20 November 2010
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DAVID MALJKOVIC
"Missing Colours”
23 October – 20 November 2010
Annet Gelink Gallery proudly presents ´Missing Colours´, the third solo
exhibition of David Maljkovic. With ´Missing Colours´, David Maljkovic
(Croatia, 1973) has taken a new road within his investigation of the
history and the future of modernistic concepts. His place of residence
Novi Zagreb – a part of the town that was built in the Socialist period –
was point of departure for this new exhibition.
Colour plays the leading role in ´Missing Colours´. Inspired by a key
scene from the Yugoslav comedy ´Balkan Spy´ (1984) in which an artist
throws coloured paint against the grey apartment buildings and is picked
up by the police, various colours are alternately projected from a
slide projector at a monumental pedestal. The room is filled with the
reflection of the coloured slide series. In this light the walls show
new collages on canvas. A second slide series in the back of the room
shows a sculpture photographed at various locations outside Zagreb.
With ‘Missing Colours’ David Maljkovic puts an accent at the current situation rather than referring to events in the past.
Despite the intensity of the colours the exhibition emphasises the
literal and figurative emptiness of a failed utopia that at this moment
can be seen not just in Novi Zagreb, but at many places in the world.
David Maljkovic received recently the International Contemporary Art
Prize Diputacio de Castello, which was presented by the province of
Castello (Spain). The jury praised him "for the new sense that he gives
to the photographic scale and to the architectural iconography of the
modern movement. From the collage and the pages of magazine, the
Croatian artist has been able to articulate the memory of a society that
has not abandoned the utopia, with all its contradictions".
Recent solo exhibitions were amongst others at the Museo Reina Sofia in
Madrid, the Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art, P.S. 1
in New York, Whitechapel Gallery in London, Kunstverein Hamburg (2007);
CAPC, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux (2007). With his work David
Maljkvovic is represented at a number of group exhibitions, amongst
which the Bienal de Sao Paulo 2010, de 51e October Salon in Belgrade,
´5x5 Castello 2010´ in het EACC in Castello, ´Rehabilitation´ at Wiels
in Brussels, de Istanbul Biennale, ´Les Promesses du Passe´ in Centre
Pompidou in Paris and the Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art in 2008.
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