Ruke
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- Hands
- Ruke
- 1964
- 3 b&w photographs
- 24 x 30 cm
Ješa Denegri, one of the most prominent art critics in Serbia, notes that Tomislav Gotovac’s “involvement with photography as a medium for artistic practice was in essence the consequence of a metalinguistic approach to the constitutive elements of the medium that he made use of in his work.”1 Be it the observation of his hands in several positions standing in the street (“Hands,” 1964) or the scanning of every detail in his Zagreb apartment (“Cara Dušana,” 1977) Gotovac’s conceptual approach to photography made him explore the dimensions of time and space in an analytic manner, which has always been linked to filmic gestures and thus to the artist’s primary field of interest. B.S.
Notes:
1 Ješa Denegri. “The Individual Mythology of Tomislav Gotovac,“ in: Tomislav Gotovac, ed. by Aleksandar Battista Ilić and Diana Nenadić. Zagreb: Croatian Film Club's Association - Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003. p. 271.
Notes:
1 Ješa Denegri. “The Individual Mythology of Tomislav Gotovac,“ in: Tomislav Gotovac, ed. by Aleksandar Battista Ilić and Diana Nenadić. Zagreb: Croatian Film Club's Association - Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003. p. 271.