[NetBehaviour] "After the battle..."

[Johannes Birringer]

Dear all,
some of you noted that our list is relatively quiet, and I am guessing
there are good reasons for it. We live in times when so many polarizing and
aggressive words are exchanged, and the rivers are rising (in the place
where I live).

But here, an announcement of an exhibition we recently opened at the
gallery where I work now (and on our website, front page, you find a link
to a short video from opening night):

After the battle all generals are fucked

Dream worlds on canvas by Bojan Šumonja & Marko Jakše


Gallery Puzić, Johannisstrasse 3A, 66111 Saarbrücken, Germany // duration
of the exhibition 14/5. – 19/6, 2024


https://gallery-puzic.com/

Gallery Puzić cordially invites you to the presentation of two of the most
important and renowned artists in Central Europe –
Bojan Šumonja (Croatia) and Marko Jakše (Slovenia). Bojan Šumonja is
rightly considered one of the most famous and recognized Croatian visual

artists of the last decades. He has exhibited independently over 100 times
across Europe and in

the USA. His works have, among others, been presented at independent
exhibitions in Venice,

Milan, Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, Klagenfurt, Graz, Brussels, Ljubljana,
Luxembourg, New

Orleans, Zagreb, Dubrovnik and throughout Croatia. In his richly baroque
compositions, sheep,

gaunt flamingos, birds, downtrodden refugees and superheroes often appear,
in sometimes absurd

and dangerous scenarios of ecological, social and political catastrophes or
dystopian landscapes.

At the same time, complex ironic references (for which the artist was
celebrated as the first

“postmodernist” on the Croatian scene) wander through these dark
battlefields - quotes from silent films (Buster Keaton), classical art and
Pop Art appear, little Easter bunnies and other

cartoons figures run around after the battle. Or herds of people bow down
like African ostriches,

hiding their heads in the sand. Šumonja’s most recent paintings, as well as
the “collective” works

(One Dollar Bill) with Marko Jakše, radiate striking chromatic
peculiarities and combine versatile

motifs and spatial systems.


The Slovenian artist Marko Jakše is appreciated by art experts for his
expressive works with

contrasting elements and imaginative, poetic scenarios. For more than 30
years, his artistic

visions have been inspiring audiences with complex and multifaceted works
that have a unique

appeal and have already been awarded many prizes. Among many other
exhibition venues,

Marko Jakše represented Slovenia at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022). A
strong source of

inspiration is the animal and plant world. The painterly results are
surreal-seeming worlds that

highlight the beauty of nature but also intertwine completely fantastic,
strange and surreal

elements.


The sarcastic title of our exhibition is aimed at the innovative image and
style combinations of

the two painters, whose fictional, mutated or real characters/natures
capture our imagination,

looking at us with strange grimaces, and also turn into melancholy dreams.
What is also quite

unusual for our Western artworld scene is the fact that the two artists
worked as a collective for

this exhibition, i.e. the paintings were designed and developed by both of
them together.


regards

Johannes Birringer

Concept Manager / Gallery Puzić

https://gallery-puzic.com/



> On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 at 08:00, AGF <agf at poemproducer.com> wrote:
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>> hi dear, your posts are welcome!
>> agee
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>> > On 6. Jun 2024, at 6.56, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour <
>> netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
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>> > */i'm honestly not trying to dominate this list, i am more than
>> > willing to stop posting here if others will post, sad to see this
>> > quiet/*
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>> > dark rasa / sickness
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>> > https://youtu.be/IkW_-wzOIgY video
>> >
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