United Dead Nations
ed. by Dragan Jelenkovic ; texts by Lidija, Ana Bogdanovic, Peter Vermeersch
- Author(s)
- Lidija, Ana Bogdanovic, Peter Vermeersch
- Editor(s)
- Dragan Jelenkovic
- Publication, year
- Belgrade : The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2015
- Scope
- 174 Pages, illustrated, 31 cm.
- ISBN
- 9788671013093
The "United Dead Nations" project representing the Serbian Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia by artist Ivan Grubanov aims to establish a dialogue on what does the notion of the nation represent in our post-global times by putting in focus the nations that no longer exist as such, but whose ghosts are still conditioning the geo-spheres they had occupied.Grubanov uses the flags of nations that ceased to exist during the 20th century (Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire, USSR, German Democratic Republic, South Vietnam, United Arab Republic, Czechoslovakia, Tibet, Yugoslavia, Gran Colombia) and treats them as painting material: soaks them in chemicals and colors, exposes them to damaging influences, creates imprints of their symbols on clean canvases, produces sculptural forms and ambiental situations. Past, present and future, life and death, art and politics find themselves overlapped in Grubanov's powerful composition.
- Person as subject
- Ivan Grubanov
- Location
- Cabinet 3 - 5: Kunstenaars
- Remarks
- Incl. Biography.
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