Aspects 75, 1975
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print on paper
43,5 × 29,5 cm
Edinburgh, 56 pages
“Passepart” is an oversized catalog in the shape of a Yugoslav passport that was produced for the exhibition “Aspect ’75”, which featured 49 contemporary Yugoslav artists and was held at the Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh in 1975. This show was the culmination of a relentlessly busy twelve months of research in the country. Curator Jon Blackwood attempted to present a comprehensive impression of multiple generations of artists in the eight individual Yugoslav republics that existed at the time. The works shown ranged from naïve paintings, archaic woodcuts, and lavish textile works to performance art, photography, and video. Raša Todosijević, for example, presented his “Edinburgh Statements,” a pamphlet-like work embodying an institutional critique in which he listed those who benefitted financially from the art world. The catalog’s reference to the Yugoslav passport also referred to the freedom of travel afforded by the country’s socialist system. W.S.
43,5 × 29,5 cm
Edinburgh, 56 pages
“Passepart” is an oversized catalog in the shape of a Yugoslav passport that was produced for the exhibition “Aspect ’75”, which featured 49 contemporary Yugoslav artists and was held at the Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh in 1975. This show was the culmination of a relentlessly busy twelve months of research in the country. Curator Jon Blackwood attempted to present a comprehensive impression of multiple generations of artists in the eight individual Yugoslav republics that existed at the time. The works shown ranged from naïve paintings, archaic woodcuts, and lavish textile works to performance art, photography, and video. Raša Todosijević, for example, presented his “Edinburgh Statements,” a pamphlet-like work embodying an institutional critique in which he listed those who benefitted financially from the art world. The catalog’s reference to the Yugoslav passport also referred to the freedom of travel afforded by the country’s socialist system. W.S.