{"id":1330,"date":"2013-12-11T15:14:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T14:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zavod-parasite.si\/eng\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2014-02-09T14:28:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T13:28:49","slug":"black-on-white-artists%e2%80%99-magazines-and-newspapers-in-slovenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiv.zavod-parasite.si\/eng\/archives\/1330","title":{"rendered":"Black on White. Artists\u2019 magazines and newspapers in Slovenia"},"content":{"rendered":"

18 December 2013 \u2013 7 January 2014
\nGalerija Akademija Moderna, Zagreb<\/p>\n

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In recent years Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. has created and organised several survey exhibitions of artist\u2019s books and artists\u2019 publications in Slovenia and abroad. The presentation \u201cBlack on White\u201d in Zagreb\u2019s Academia Moderna gallery presents a new step in this direction: the first presentation of artists\u2019 newspapers and magazines as well as periodical bulletins published by artists.<\/p>\n

In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s artists\u2019 magazines became an important new field of work for artistic practices. They established themselves as alternative exhibition spaces \u2013 mostly for immaterial, alternative and conceptual practices. Artists created works just for these mass-reproduced editions and tested the borders of the medium. They experimented with the format, design, typography, materiality, etc., and often connected them to music, poetry and criticism. While artists used magazines for documenting their work, they also created art works on the publication\u2019s printed pages.
\nThe ephemeral nature of these publications was the central characteristic also of their alternative forms of distribution. In the 1970s and, predominantly, in the 1980s, the reproducibility of art became ubiquitous. It was a time when the media culture of spectacle began to prevail, in the frame of which social relationship became mediated. Also in this time new printing techniques were introduced, such as offset, Xerox and the like. These reproduction and multiplication techniques were much more accessible and considerably cheaper.<\/p>\n

In the 1930s, Walter Benjamin was one of the first who observed that art which was reproduced and distributed through mass media became in its qualitative nature a different media of communication. When an art work is mechanically reproduced it loses its aura of uniqueness in time and space. At the same time, with its \u201cnumerosity\u201d it gains a new political function since it reaches a much wider public. Thus Benjamin\u2019s statement that \u201cthe work of art reproduced becomes the work of art designed for reproducibility\u201d was adopted by the creators of artists\u2019 publications as their own.<\/p>\n

The exhibition \u201cBlack on White\u201d exposes some of the most interesting examples of artists\u2019 periodicals which in recent decades have been published in Slovenia: artists\u2019 collections, newspapers and magazines, fanzines, and other related publications. In the exhibition space of Academia Moderna in Zagreb, the exhibition \u201cBlack on white\u201d presents the artistic production of artists\u2019 periodicals made by several generations of Slovenian artists: Marko Poga\u010dnik, I.G. Plamen, Franci Zagori\u010dnik, OHO Group, Davorin Marc, Danilo Celan, Mario Marzidov\u0161ek, Du\u0161an Mandi\u0107, Esad Baba\u010di\u0107, Tanja \u0160penko, VIKS magazine, Jo\u017ee Bar\u0161i, Vesna Bukovec, P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art, and so on.<\/p>\n

The exhibition has been prepared in collaboration with the International Centre of Graphic Arts<\/strong> in Ljubljana and UGM Art Gallery<\/strong> in Maribor.<\/p>\n

The programme of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and by the Municipality of Ljubljana, Department for Culture.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

18 December 2013 \u2013 7 January 2014
\nGalerija Akademija Moderna, Zagreb
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