{"id":2500,"date":"2017-07-13T21:01:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T19:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2017-09-19T16:42:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T14:42:16","slug":"ill-always-be-there-always","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/archives\/2500","title":{"rendered":"“I’ll always be there. Always.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exhibition:<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019ll always be there. Always.\u201d Media representations of characters, pop and contemporary art
\nVenue:<\/strong> Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, SI
\nDate:<\/strong> July 21 – October 1, 2017
\nOpening:<\/strong> Friday, July 21 2017, at 7 pm<\/p>\n

Curator: Maja Anton\u010di\u010d<\/p>\n

Participating artists: Vesna Bukovec, Jure Cvitan, Toma\u017e \u010crnej, Ga\u0161per Kun\u0161i\u010d, Toma\u017e Toma\u017ein, Nika Oblak in Primo\u017e Novak, Iza Pavlina, Mark Po\u017elep, Adrijan Praznik, Arjan Pregl, Oliver Pili\u0107, Andrej \u0160kufca, Manja Vadla, Mladina magazine (covers 2016, 2017)*<\/p>\n

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I’ll always be there. Always. It’s not the powers. Not the cape. It’s about standing up for justice. For truth. As long as people like you are out there, I’ll be there. Always.” \u2013 Superman (Action Comics, #840)<\/em><\/p>\n

A good sixty years have passed since the glittering images of advertising ads, star icons and film entered the field of art for the first time. The exhibition at hand attempts to show just how skilfully the references of media content and similar culturally interesting phenomena of everyday contemporaneity are being abbreviated by artists today. However, in contrast to the presentations of “pop art”, which would relate to this specific direction of art particularly through historical connotation or association both in terms of form and content, it is the character, as the bearer of the popularization of cultural content and mass consumption that stands in the forefront of the exhibited projects. The emphasis is on using the well-known language of the mass media, which presents various semantic challenges, supported by the chosen character in the artwork. The character is in this case the player who already blurred the borders between reality and fiction in his original existence, but now constructs additional messages and creates a field of reflection or criticism within the context of contemporary art. Thirteen artists draw from an extensive dictionary of media images, online social networks, from the narratives of film and advertising, as well as the marketing apparatus. They speak of the “heroes” of contemporary society that fill our everyday zone of the visible and the perceptive. They are joined by a selection of covers of the Mladina magazine, whose authors \u2013 along with some other artists in the exhibition \u2013 satirically change the “heroes” into “anti-heroes”, and less frequently the other way round.<\/p>\n

Excerpt of the curatorial text by Maja Anton\u010di\u010d<\/em><\/p>\n

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*MLADINA \u2013 design: Damjan Ili\u0107, Toma\u017e Lavri\u010d, Ivian Kan Mujezinovi\u0107, Fabrika Sarajevo \u2013 photography: Uro\u0161 Abram, Borut Krajnc, Matja\u017e Ru\u0161t<\/p>\n

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I am participating with videos from the series White Performances \/ Positive Affirmations<\/a> (2010) and video Moje sanje, lepo stanovanje \/ The Happiest Apartment in the World<\/a> (2010) <\/p>\n

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Photo: Ana Stra\u017ee
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\"Vedno<\/a><\/td>\nMedia representations of characters, pop and contemporary art
\nGallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, SI
\nJuly 21 – October 1, 2017
\nFriday, July 21 2017, at 7 pm<\/p>\n

Curator: Maja Anton\u010di\u010d<\/p>\n

Participating artists: Vesna Bukovec, Jure Cvitan, Toma\u017e \u010crnej, Ga\u0161per Kun\u0161i\u010d, Toma\u017e Toma\u017ein, Nika Oblak in Primo\u017e Novak, Iza Pavlina, Mark Po\u017elep, Adrijan Praznik, Arjan Pregl, Oliver Pili\u0107, Andrej \u0160kufca, Manja Vadla, Mladina magazine (covers 2016, 2017)<\/p>\n

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