SEE images in contemporary art - Part 3

posted by sab on 2006/01/08 23:56

[ SEE images in contemporary art ]

Often, weblogs are much quicker with providing information about artists so far mainly unknown - or even anticipate who is going to be the talk of the day. On her weblog Trot-i-net, Ana introduced Tanja Ostojic as a Serbian artist in exile.

And now, after a considerable tumult, everybody in Austria – and also elsewhere – suddenly has lots of opinions about the 25 pieces campaign, featuring, amongst others, Ostojic’ works. The affair is evolving into a discussion about almost everything – Europe, Art and Women. And - about the Balkans: Art in migration sums up some interesting interpretations of the picture – one is, that the “wild” Balkans have to tame their “uncultured instincts” with some nice clothes in order to get into the EU. And another one – my favourite so far: Georgi Gospodinov sees the EU as a woman, waiting to be seduced by the “male” Balkans....

All this is more fun than I first thought it would be...read more on the topic on Ana's blog....

http://kakanienneu.univie.ac.at/static/files/27508/ostojic.jpg


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This is a part of the collage 'The Black File' by Croatian artist Sanja Ivekovic, who will be represented at documenta 12 (16/6-23/9) in Kassel this year.

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