[NetBehaviour] "After the battle..."

[Alan Sondheim]

Hi Johannes,

I do wish you could do a walk-through of the exhibition w/ video and in 
English or subtitled - it comes through awkwardly for me and god knows 
we're all interested in this!

love, Alan, be well -

On Thu, 6 Jun 2024, Johannes Birringer via NetBehaviour wrote:

> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 10:29:15 +0200
> From: Johannes Birringer via NetBehaviour
>     <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>
> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
>     <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>
> Cc: Johannes Birringer <johannesbirringer1 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] "After the battle..."
> 
> 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 ?umonja & Marko Jak?e
> 
> 
> Gallery Puzic?, Johannisstrasse 3A, 66111 Saarbru?cken, Germany // duration of
> the exhibition 14/5. ? 19/6, 2024
> 
> 
> https://gallery-puzic.com/
> 
> 
> Gallery Puzi? cordially invites you to the presentation of two of the most
> important and renowned artists in Central Europe
> ? Bojan ?umonja (Croatia) and Marko Jak?e (Slovenia). Bojan ?umonja 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. ?umonja?s most recent paintings, as well as the
> ?collective? works
> 
> (One Dollar Bill) with Marko Jak?e, radiate striking chromatic peculiarities
> and combine versatile
> 
> motifs and spatial systems.
> 
> 
> The Slovenian artist Marko Jak?e 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 Jak?e 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 Puzic?
> 
> https://gallery-puzic.com/
> 
> 
>  
>       On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 at 08:00, AGF <agf at poemproducer.com> wrote:
>       hi dear, your posts are welcome!
>       agee
>
>       > On 6. Jun 2024, at 6.56, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour
>       <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>       >
>       >
>       > */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/*
>       >
>       > dark rasa / sickness
>       >
>       > https://youtu.be/IkW_-wzOIgY video
>       >
> 
> 
>