IMAGES WITH THEIR OWN SHADOWS I 2008 I 06’16”

Maljkovic presents both a film and a new, accompanying installation. The film was shot in the museum of EXAT-51 founding member Vjenceslav Richter and uses audio from a final interview with the artist and architect. EXAT-51 – short for Experimental Ateliers – was a group of Croatian avant garde artists and architects active in Zagreb between 1950 and 1956 whose practice aimed to obtain legitimacy for abstract art and experimental art practices, practices that were totally opposed to the officially sanctioned Socialist Realism. Maljkovic’s film captures the idealism of the period to prompt a consideration of our own post-ideological times but also to highlight the necessity of coming to terms with history in order to move into the future.

 

DAVID MALJKOVIC (HRV/°1973)

In his collages, films and installations, Maljkovic investigates the historical, cultural, and ideological legacy of modernist projects in Croatia. His work can be found in major public collections such as MoMA, New York and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. In 2008 he was included in the 5th Berlin Biennial. This autumn he will have a solo exhibition at the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid.

Images with their Own Shadows, 2008
16mm film, colour, sound, 06’16”
Courtesy Metro Pictures New York and Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam