10 of the Best Artworks at Frieze London 2016
Mladen Stilinovic
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In his works, Mladen Stilinović focuses on the language of politics and its reflection in art and the everyday. From 1969–76 he worked with experimental film and from 1975–79 he was a member of Zagreb's Group of Six Artists. His works include drawings, collages, photographs, artist books, paintings, installations, actions, films, and video. He researches the field of artistic signs and speech by decoding verbal and visual clichés in order to separate language from the common or daily political ideas and connotations. It is not just the matter of word, but the colour of red, the symbols of the socialist community: the flag and the star. For example, the slogan
Attack on my art is the attack on socialism and progress (Napad na moju umjetnost, napad je na socijalizam i napredak)
(1977), written on artificial pink silk, is typical of his oeuvre. Using paradox and manipulation, Stilinović appropriates the brutality of political speech upon himself thus levelling the roles of the speakers. “If language is owned by ideology, I, too, want to become the owner of that language, I want to think in that language with corresponding consequences,” writes the artist in 1984.
Stilinović has exhibited worldwide since 1975. He …
In his works, Mladen Stilinović focuses on the language of politics and its reflection in art and the everyday. From 1969–76 he worked with experimental film and from 1975–79 he was a member of Zagreb's Group of Six Artists. His works include drawings, collages, photographs, artist books, paintings, installations, actions, films, and video. He researches the field of artistic signs and speech by decoding verbal and visual clichés in order to separate language from the common or daily political ideas and connotations. It is not just the matter of word, but the colour of red, the symbols of the socialist community: the flag and the star. For example, the slogan
Attack on my art is the attack on socialism and progress (Napad na moju umjetnost, napad je na socijalizam i napredak)
(1977), written on artificial pink silk, is typical of his oeuvre. Using paradox and manipulation, Stilinović appropriates the brutality of political speech upon himself thus levelling the roles of the speakers. “If language is owned by ideology, I, too, want to become the owner of that language, I want to think in that language with corresponding consequences,” writes the artist in 1984.
Stilinović has exhibited worldwide since 1975. He has had a retrospective show at Ludwig Museum in Budapest and solo exhibitions at MUAC in Mexico City, Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Zagreb’s Museum of Contemporary Art, and Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. His work has been presented in group exhibitions at the New Museum in New York, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Garage / Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, as well as the 50th Venice Biennial, and Documenta 12 in Kassel.
Courtesy Galerie Frank Elbaz
Born 1947
Hometown Belgrade, Serbia
Lives and Works Zagreb, Croatia
Permanent Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
CGAC, A Coruña, Spain
Representing Galleries
Espaivisor, Valencia, Spain
Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
Works Available for Purchase
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