The exhibition ‘Image to Image – European Figurative Painting of the 1960s and 1970s’
The exhibition ‘Image to Image – European Figurative Painting of the 1960s and 1970s’ authored by the curatorial team of Daniel and Gunnar Kvaran and Heritage House curator Dina Pavić opens at the SASA Gallery, on 16 November, at 7 p.m.
The exhibition encompasses two exhibition showrooms – the Heritage House and SASA Gallery and showcases the works of the most prominent local and European painters, representatives of the European figurative painting of the 1960s and 1970s including Richard Hamilton, (1922-2009), Jacques Monory, (1924-2018), Erró, 1932, Mimmo Rotella, (1918-2006), Dušan Otašević (1940), Eduardo Arroyo, (1937), Alain Jacquet, (1939-2008), Gerhard Richter, (1932), Miodrag Mića Popović (1924-1996), Aleksandra Cvetković (1947), Božidar Damjanovski (1947), Andrej Jemec (1934), Vera Fischer, (1925-2009), Kiki Kogelnik (1935-1997), Berko (1947), Evelyne Axell, (1935 – 1972), Peter Klasen (1935), Peter Stämpfli (1935), R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007), Valerio Adami (1935) and Vladimir Veličković (1935–2019).
The exhibition offers the audience the possibility to see the works of the above-mentioned artists who used photographs in their works to record social, political and cultural features of the environments they created in. For some of them, photography was a ’kind of a quote of mass culture’; artistic processes such as pop art and figurativism were based on the use of already existing photographs (from various forms of periodicals) of icons of pop music, films, politics, i.e. consumer society. Artists broached a wide spectre of issues by rephotographing, copying, editing, cropping, enlarging, design and distributing figures, beginning with the reality issues, originality and ending with the system of representation in the history of art.