sandbox
Sandbox, a solo exhibition by artist Zlatan Filipovic, brings together new works the artist produced after relocating to the United Arab Emirates. Filipovic’s visual art practice is invested in looking through the lens at the world, examining the process of recording this sight digitally. Sandbox speaks out of this practice, as a visual reaction to the artist’s newfound surrounding.
UAE Resident documents the Filipovics’ wrestle with removing the visa sponsor sticker placed on the cover of his passport. The sticker covers the insignia labeling the passport, obliterating its title of origin. Bosnians have to get visas, far in advance, for everywhere. Therefore, a Bosnian passport is functionally inapt as a travel document. However, it is a precious personal object and difficult to remove sticky glue is an offensive nuisance. Whether we like it or not documents institute us and become synonyms with our identity in a practical and even metaphorical sense. Filipovic’s other videos gaze at the minimal landscape of sea-water, the desert and the vacant billboard. Old characteristic Arabian Gulf boats bisect the video frame with an overflowing amount of passengers. The split video frame fragments the pictorial space, as boats loop in a never-ending passing of laborers sitting orderly on benches. Similarly, in the vacuum of night, a ceaseless pouring of concrete appears as if it is occurring on planet Mars. The miniature, uniformed, blue laborers aid the colossal machine in doing its work. In contrast to the videos, the accompanying photographs are taken in daylight and are completely static. Photography is inherently still, but moreover, Filipovic’s machines stand halted as if holding their breath. The tractor with its jaws locked open; the crane with its nose stuck in the sand show a break in labor, where all the machine operators mysteriously vanished. The scaffolding billboard constructions forecast a complicated and erratic expansion of an imagined city of the New World. It is not clear whether there is archeological work to be done, or whether artifacts are to be buried. This city is not for inhabitants, this city is for the image.
Isak Berbic
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Umjetnička Galerija Bosne i Hercegovine
13-20. decembar 2006.
Dragi prijatelji umjetnosti,
Zadovoljstvo nam je predstaviti vam izložbu Željka i Zlatana FILIPOVIĆA, umjetnika različitih generacija, oca i sina.
Svojim stvaralaštvom i pedagoškim
radom ova dva umjetnika donese nam stalno osvježenje i neprestano traganje
za novitetima u domenu likovnog izraza, upotrebe novih tehnologija i integracije istih u nastavne procese na Univerzitetu u Sarajevu ali i šire.
Ovom prilikom za vas su pripremili dva ciklusa radova, nastala nezavisno jedan od drugog, ali u relativno bliskom vremenskom periodu. Proteklih godinu dana.
Željko predstavlja djela nastala u realizaciji magistarskog rada u domenu digitalne grafike kod profesora Dževada HOZE.
Zlatan nam “donosi” radove nastale tokom boravka u Ujedinjenim Arapskim Emiratima, sa angažmana kao gostujući profesor na Američkom Univerzitetu u Sharjah.
Oba ciklusa nastala su u potpunom digitalnom okruženju, a polazne tačke za autore su tematski dosta različite. Željko se fokusira na period Sarajeva pod opsadom i literarno djelo Marka VEŠOVIĆA nastalo u tom periodu. Zlatan na svoj način predstavlja prostor i vrijeme jednog drugačijeg podneblja. To je promišljanje o sličnostima i razlikama onoga što je iskusio tokom boravka u UAE te drugih iskustava pretočeno u 13 digitalnih isprinta fotografskog karaktera i 3 video rada.
Za obojicu je ovo jedan veoma intiman proces transponovanja osjećanja i procesiranja u likovnu ekspresiju i formu digitalnog medija, u kome se razrješuje kompletna aktivnost kreacije od intuitivnih transformacija pa sve do finalnog printa ili produkcije video rada.
U nadi da ćete sa nama podijeliti zadovoljstvo otvaranja izložbi ova dva autora, u srijedu 13. decembra, sa početkom u 18.00 (Zlatan) u galeriji na Akademiji likovnih umjetnosti, Sarajevo i 19.00 (Željko) u prostorijama Umjetničke galerije BiH, želimo vam omogućiti još jednu pogodnost.
Djela koja autori izlažu u mogućnosti smo u periodu trajanja izložbe ponuditi po posebno povoljnim cijenama a ukoliko ste možda zainteresovani za kupovinu čitave kolekcije, dodatne pogodnosti su obezbijeđene.
UGBiH
