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Vlado Martek
Vlado Martek, Exhibition with many titles, MMSU Rijeka, 2019 © Damir Žižić

MMSU Rijeka
Krešimirova ul. 26c
51000 Rijeka
Hrvaška

General information:
T +386 1 24 11 785
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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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Vlado Martek

Exhibition with Many Titles

12. 7. 2019–8. 9. 2019

The first retrospective of Vlado Martek art in Rijeka, "Exhibition with Many Titles", presents a wide variety of media, concepts and topics whose point in common is the artist’s experimental use of language. The exhibition reveals the artist’s beginnings in the 1970s, his breakthrough onto the art scene after graduating in literature and philosophy, and his work as a member of the Group of Six Authors, which left an impact on Martek’s art in general.

"Exhibition with Many Titles" reveals Martek’s works from the 1970s onwards, in an attempt to extend the boundaries of artistic expression, but also of the ways of presentation and mediation of art (performative poetry, media deconstruction and the act of breaking into public space). The focus is placed on Martek’s dual position as an artist and a poet who engages in an obsessive analysis of language and the role of art.

With approximately three hundred works created in different media, we examine the artist’s ambivalent relationship to books and written word, from his fascination with the rebellious potential of words to the disquietude caused by the sight of books placed on shelves, captured in a narrow circle of admirers. We observe how the written word unfolds in a space – public space or the space of a medium, such as drawing, painting or word sculpting. The exhibition takes Martek’s linguistic games, picture rebuses and pictograms and correlates them with the forms of communication that cause a commotion over social rules and stir rebellion against dull language. "Exhibition with Many Titles" uses humour of unusual combinations of symbols, going beyond artisan rules and conventional approach to materials. It flows from one medium to another and ruffles the traditional art forms. Without placing any emphasis on the periods in which the works were created, this exhibition follows the path of Martek’s heretic approach to language conventions and his playing with seemingly correct linguistic patterns. To quote one of his mottos: I’m in love with the state, long live adultery.

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Production: MMSU RijekaIn collaboration with: Museum and Galleries of LjubljanaExhibition curators: Alenka Gregorič & Ksenija OreljCollaborators: Kora Girin and Katerina Jovanović Artist: Vlado MartekExhibition design: Ajdin BašićPhotography: Damir Žižić


In collaboration with Rijeka 2020

MMSU Rijeka Krešimirova ul. 26c 51000 Rijeka Hrvaška

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.

News

A lecture by the renowned Croatian artist whose work is based on visualising poetry

Indigo Festival will host lecture by Vlado Martek on Friday, September 13, at 7.30 pm at the ZRC SAZU. His retrospective was recently on display at the MMSU Rijeka, and in February 2020 his works will be presented at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana. In his art pieces Vlado Martek works with poems and fragments of poems by putting them into collages, photographs, graphics, sketches, drawings, art actions and agitations, graffiti and wallpapers.

12. September 2019
City Art Gallery Ljubljana

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