Ljubljana
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DUŠAN MANDIĆ

Galerija Podroom, Kulturni centar Beograda
Knez Mihailova 6
Beograd

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T +386 1 24 11 785
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School programs:
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Tuesday–Sunday: 11:00–19:00
Monday: Closed
1 January, 1 November, 25 December: Closed
24 and 31 December: 11:00–14:00

Free entry.



City Art Gallery Ljubljana is a dog-friendly gallery.

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DUŠAN MANDIĆ

Vojak D.M. Die Welt ist Schön

5. 10. 2017–2. 11. 2017

The Podroom Gallery at the Cultural Centre of Belgrade opened the exhibition of Dušan Mandić, entitled “Vojak D.M. Die Welt ist Schön”, which was on view at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana from December 2013 to January 2014. He is considered the first artist in Slovenia to have transferred graffiti painting from the urban/street space to the gallery space.  

As one of the foremost ideologists of the Ljubljana subculture scene, especially its visual arts production, he left an indelible mark in the early 1980s on the occurrence of neo-avant-garde movements as an alternative to the established art system. Equally salient is his role in forming the visual arts group Irwin in 1983. 

Taking the form of a repeat presentation of his "Die Welt ist schön" project staged at the ŠKUC Gallery in Ljubljana in 1982, Mandić’s first solo appearance after thirty years of exhibiting and working exclusively with Irwin again offers a view of a segment of his early artistic production. He made the series of images-interventions on standard postcards, crosses, and letters during his one-year stint of military service in Niš. In his own words, the exhibition “presents artistic output concerned with analysing a social situation and the standpoint of the subject (author of the exhibition) toward an ideological apparatus – the Yugoslav People’s Army. At the same time, this is a displacement of the subject from a position of apparent control and influence over the circumstances of his life to a position in which he finds himself wearing a uniform, henceforth nothing but a cog in the mechanism of the state totalitarian machine.”

Colophon

Production: Museum and Galleries of LjubljanaCoproduction: Galerija Podroom, Kulturni centar BeogradaCurator: Mateja PodlesnikArtist: Dušan MandićCoordination: Katarina KostandinovićText: Mateja PodlesnikRealisation of the exhibition: Technical Service KCB

Galerija Podroom, Kulturni centar Beograda Knez Mihailova 6 Beograd

General information:
T +386 1 24 11 785
E mestna.galerija@mgml.si

School programs:
T +386 1 24 12 506
E prijava@mgml.si

Public relations:
T +386 41 669 599
E mateja.dimnik@mgml.si


Tuesday–Sunday: 11:00–19:00
Monday: Closed
1 January, 1 November, 25 December: Closed
24 and 31 December: 11:00–14:00

Free entry.



City Art Gallery Ljubljana is a dog-friendly gallery.

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