18th Street Arts Center

August – September 2008

Multi Media Artist

Born 1972. He has graduated painting at Art Academy Brera in Milan, Italy. He is now teaching at painting department of Art Academy at Split University. He is member of HULU (Croatian Association of Artists), Split and HZSU; he has been exhibiting since 1997 in Croatia and abroad. Split and HZSU; he has been exhibiting since 1997 in Croatia and abroad.

Artist

April 2008 – May 2008

In the recent works of Marko Tadic, urban myths relying on the aestheticism of punk rock, fanzines, comic books, manga, and B-movies, are merged with art-historical references, fairy-tales and literary quotations, into an organic unity. Tadic does not recoil from arranging these realities on to the surface of wooden souvenirs, paper plates, or wooden boards. In addition, he does this playfully, almost childishly, by using techniques with which many among us used to dirty our small fingers in our early childhood – felt-tip pen or ink. In this way, he constructs multileveled, phantasmagoric stories with only a hint of narration. As in all boyish drawing, be it doodles or graffiti on school tables or bedroom furniture, and evident on the wooden boards of Tadic in his latest body of work, it is possible to perceive a modified hero, or at least – a robot. But when the boyish passion for drawing is combined with the curious investigation into abandoned objects and a fetish for insignificant human traces, such as an abandoned address book, diary, or simply a notebook, imaginary beings find themselves in a rather overpopulated neighbourhood. Heroes taken from the remnants of everyday life evolve in accordance with the precarious rules and whims of that small, mythical world; while the rebus-like landscapes, with their inevitable subtext of transition, conceal the laws of creation of new mythical heroes.

Curator

She is one of the founding members of an independent curatorial collective What, How & for Whom/WHW (with Ivet Curlin, Natasa Ilic and Sabina Sabolovic and designer and publicist Dejan Krsic) based in Zagreb, Croatia. WHW’s activities are exploring the potentials of critical curatorial practice capable of generating innovative models of self-representation and self-organization within the realm of contemporary art. Since May 2003 WHW has been running the program of Gallery Nova – non-profit city owned gallery in the center of Zagreb.

Curator

Zelimir Kosevic is a freelance curator and expert in national and international contemporary art and photography. In 1964, he graduated in Art History and Ethnology from University of Zagreb. He has been Curator at the Museum of Applied Art, Zagreb, Director of Student’s Centre Art Gallery Zagreb and, for many years, Chief Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb. Kosevic has been Professor of Museology at The Dept. of Art History, University of Zagreb, Editor of 20th Century Art in the Lexicographic Institute, Zagreb, and a member of ICOM/CIMAM, IKT, AICA, and the European Society for History of Photography. Currently, he is program adviser of Foto Galerija Lang in Samobor. He has nine books on contemporary art and more than 500 published articles, monographs, essays, and exhibition catalogues published in Croatia and abroad.

2006

Photo Artist

“My artistic work has always been based on photographies of people, situations with them, selfpotraits. Sometimes, my professional tasks (mostly magazine jobs), turned out to be unexpectedly artistic. Therefore, unusable in the publishing business, but very helpful in my development as an artist. I like to take photo walks during which I take photographies of the moments, atmospheres, people on the way…

What excites me about photography is breaking the rules, using it as my artistic «weapon». I love playing with usharpness, film grain, contrasts, over and under exposure … there are so many rules to break.”