On Thursday, October 4 at 7 pm at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Zagreb (Trg kralja Tomislava 20), a catalogue of the Marko Ercegović‘s exhibition All or Nothing will be launched, accompanied by an artist talk.
At the exhibition, which was opened in September on two locations in Zagreb – at the Spot Gallery (Čanićeva 6) and at the Institute for Contemporary Art (Trg kralja Tomislava 20), the author presents his extensive photo series created over a period of an entire decade. At the Spot Gallery the author presents part of the series titled All or Nothing and at the Institute for Contemporary Art the visitors have an opportunity to see second part of the series, titled Freedom Frightens Me. The exhibition is on view on both locations until Friday, October 5 (opening hours Tuesday – Saturday 12:00 – 7:00 p.m.). The day before, on Thursday, October 4 an accompanying catalogue will be presented, co-published by the Institute for Contemporary Art and Office for Photography and designed by Igor Kuduz.
Marko Ercegović’s exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Art / photo: M. Ercegović
“(…) Marko has already explored motion, movements or small changes, and he did so in two key ways, both of which represent some of his convictions on approaches to photography. One of these ideas is that a camera as a machine keeps its share of authorship of every photograph, while the other is that every photograph recorded by a photographer depends on his or her movement and the position of the body. (…) On this he says: Anything is photographable. At one point he says that a photograph is never more valuable than the scene it records, but at the same time, that the scenes he chooses are in fact non-chosen, spontaneous, that they have been recorded because he, as a photographer, is present. (…)”
(from the text by Janka Vukmir)
“(…) In the complex harmony of the exhibition displays on two locations (…) completely new interrelations between photographs emerge, which are by no means fixed and highly non-authoritative. It is much less important what these photographs depict than what they produce, for the volatile and almost endless possibilities of the narratives they create. Ercegović reveals the possibility of redefining the photographic language, its grammar and syntax in the erosion of fixed and determined meanings. (…)”
(from the text by Jelena Pašić)
Marko Ercegović’s exhibition at the Spot Gallery / photo: M. Ercegović
Marko Ercegović was born in Dubrovnik, and now lives and works in Zagreb. He graduated in Cinematography from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. He received numerous awards and his work was presented at a number of exhibitions in Croatia and abroad.
The exhibition is realized in cooperation between the Institute for Contemporary Art and Office for Photography. Its execution and the realization of the catalogue was made possible by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb and City of Dubrovnik.
