Ponos
Description
Executed in: 1976/2016
Medium: wheel, photograph, text
Size: 94 x 57.5 x 8 cm
Signed and dated
Provenance
Private collection, Ljubljana. Acquired by the present owner from the artist studio.
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Location
Ljubljana
Favourite
Description
Vlado Martek is a poet, visual artist, writer, and one of the leading figures of the so-called "New Art Practice," which developed in Yugoslavia in the late 1970’s. Martek was also a part of the Group of Six Authors, active in Zagreb from 1975 to 1979. The fundamental feature of his work is the bringing together of language and visual arts in drawings, photographs, objects, paintings, actions, performances, and installations. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna; Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana; and the Modern Art Museum, Wroclaw. His art features in many public and private collections, such as the Kontakt Collection, Vienna; Art Collection Telekom, Bonn; Museum of contemporary Art, Zagreb, and others.
Among the numerous objects made of unusual materials (books, mirrors, clay, empty tobacco bags, biscuits, ready-made objects, etc.) that Vlado Martek has realised, Ponos (“Pride”) occupies a special place. This object was created spontaneously, like numerous public actions Martek performed. Ponos reflects Martek's participation in the exhibition-action Walk through the City (Zagreb, May 9, 1976), which he did while carrying this unique object on his shoulder. It is composed of a photograph, rope, and bicycle wheel.
Exhibitions
Retrospective exhibtion Vlado Martek: Exhibtion with Many Titles, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia, 2019 Retrospective exhibtion Vlado Martek: Exhibtion with Many Titles, City Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2020 Poetry & Performance: The Eastern European Perspective, Nová Synagóga, Žilina, Slovakia, 2017–18
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