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15/7/2007

Retro Remake

Gallery Annex and Gallery MMC, Pola

54. Pula Film Festival

Curated by Branka Bencic

Cecilia Lundqvist, Lala Rascic, Ivan Fijolic

For six years, as support programme at the Pula Film Festival cinemania[c] is exploring the relationship between art and cinema as the relationship between art and technology, their history as the history of experiments, taking into account the mark films left in our visual culture. Exhibition is exploring the way cinematographic aesthetic shapes and affects perception of the world. Space between visual arts and traditional cinematography is saturated with crossovers and hybrid genres and it is impossible to draw clear boundaries. While some artists work with the existing material by appropriation, others explore endless possibilities of film and installation, dealing with codes and structures of the media. Therefore, Cinemania[c] is a product of a meta-media society.

Works of art have absorbed language, technology and tricks of the traditional spectacle based culture. Generations of contemporary artists explore visual forms from Hollywood , auteur and independent film, to MTV or reality TV. The reciprocity of the world of art and the culture of spectacle is an important feature of contemporary artworks. Contemporary art intertwines these two worlds, erasing the boundaries between high and low, elite and mass. This year’s edition of Cinemania[c] deals with themes which continue to critically question the inexhaustible cinematographic and cinephilic issues: old Hollywood, blockbusters and remakes, cinematographic myths, stereotypes and genres, the star system and their typology, film as the entertainment industry and part of the popular culture.

In that context and entitled Retro, remake, replay, the exhibition embraces a selection of video works by the Swedish artist Cecilia Lundqvist, a large scale video projection Sorry, wrong number by Lala Raščić, and objects and lightboxes by Ivan Fijolić from the series Leitmotifs and Blockbuster.

Popular culture, mass media, film and pop art represent a space of refference in works by selected artists. The appropriation and recycling are their artistic strategies, keys to interpret their works as well as creative and cognitive process, and this strategy of appropriation exploits Hollywood. In that way Hollywood narratives are remodeled, revisited, adapted and shown in form of critical or cynical pastiches.

Gallery Annex and Gallery MMC
Istarska 30 - Pola

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