Sculptor, visual artist, doll designer and publicist in the field of contemporary art, Zoran Srdić Janežić, will present himself in the Gallery of the Institute of Sculpture with an exhibition...
Sculptor, visual artist, doll designer and publicist in the field of contemporary art, Zoran Srdić Janežić, will present himself in the Gallery of the Institute of Sculpture with an exhibition of his oeuvre Corpus Indeterminata (Undefined Body).
The entire exhibition project is divided into several parts and will be carried out in two stages. The first two works will be presented at exhibitions in the Alcatraz Gallery and the Gallery of the Institute of Sculpture, which will open on the same day at different times.
The performance and exhibition will open at 7 p.m. in the Gallery of the Institute of Sculpture. The performance will be done by taking off the felt shirt, which was created from a performance performed during his stay in an art studio in Berlin (June), when the author pulled out his hair with tweezers for 24 hours. These hairs were later glued to the material from which it is made during the felting process resulting shirt. Along with the larger one, 7 small shirts were created according to the sales orientation of the gallery, and there will also be 21 gilded coins from the series at the exhibition Lost & found 2010. This is a continuation of the series of the same name from in 2007 and will include found hair collected from urinals that will be placed on coins under Plexiglas.
At 9 p.m., in the unheated Alcatraz Gallery, the artist will present a sculpture of a cast of his body with a pig's head, made of lard and crackers.
The exhibition questions the role of the artist as a creator, who desperately needs inspiration for his work, and contrasts it with a cast of a body made from a mold. With this, the author declares, among other things, that a work of art is not just a thoughtful and inspired creation of physical objects, but that the context and critical engagement behind the work are equally important.
The author places lard, a food useful in many ways, in a context that creates resistance in the observer. The hybrid of man and animal draws attention to the anthropocentrism of our society and foreshadows the second part of the exhibition, in which the artist will use his own fat to create a body with a pig's body and a human head made through 3D scans. These simple changes of roles or the uses of raw materials are so extensive and self-evident in everyday life that we don't even question them anymore, but here we see them in a different light and are forced to reevaluate their meaning and appearance.