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One of the most outstanding artists of the younger generation,
Dejan Kaludjerović brings to the public his eighth solo exhibition,
entitled "Bite the carrot, Bunny! - Keine Angst vor kleinen
Tieren".
Educated in New York, Belgrade, and Vienna, a member of ULUS (the
Serbian Artists' Association) and the Austrian Artists' Association, IG
Bildende Kunst, Kaludjerović currently lives and works in Vienna and
recently held a show called: "Electric Girl and the Shadows" in
Berlin, where he will be exhibiting "Bite the Carrot…" next
year, 2005, in the Blickensdorff gallery. Works by this artist already
form part of five notable Austrian collections.
This is an artist whose interest lies in a striking recycling of
history, both personal and collective, and in the finest aspects of
society, which automatically implies an attempt to grasp a realistic
picture of the future. In this regard, Kaludjerović commits himself
in project after project, creating his own aesthetic, based on ready
materials (maps, photographs, industrial packaging, and in this case a
photograph taken from an old issue of Burda) to produce increasingly
uncompromising works.
The present exhibition was preceded by a series of works -
"Electric Girl", which dealt movingly with the problem of the
exploitation of under-age girls, in which the main character is out of
shot. In the scenes presented in the new collection, the characters are
the children themselves, but still there is a feeling that there exist
other invisible subjects.
"Bite the carrot, Bunny" involves a little boy and a
little girl, set against the background of a 20-year-old photo from a
fashion magazine, except that the sweet motif is brought to vibrating
life by a quivering shot on a video… what is there to be said? All we can
do is grasp it, but first of all - digest it.
The problem is that we ourselves are that invisible subject, like
the artist.
- Is it possible that art can no longer operate at a distance?
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