Bojan Sarcevic
28 Jun - 01 Sep 2007
BOJAN SARCEVIC
REPLACE THE IRREPLACABLE (2006)
Objekt aus Birnbaumholz und Messing
Maße: 230 x 330 x 90 cm
Foto: Bernd Borchardt
Courtesy: carlier | gebauer, Berlin
REPLACE THE IRREPLACABLE (2006)
Objekt aus Birnbaumholz und Messing
Maße: 230 x 330 x 90 cm
Foto: Bernd Borchardt
Courtesy: carlier | gebauer, Berlin
BOJAN SARCEVIC
KISSING THE BACK OF YOUR HAND MAKES A SOUND LIKE A WOUNDED BIRD
28 June - 1 September 2007
BOJAN SARCEVIC`s artistic practice comprises sculptures, architecture-related interventions, videos, photographic collages, and artist books. "REPLACE THE IRREPLACABLE" (2006) is a large-size object curved like a snail shell and made of pear-wood and brass. In contrast to this work, which oscillates between architecture and sculpture, the artist`s ephemeral, extremely fragile small sculptures may be read as enigmatic calligraphies or drawings in space. Šarcevic also plays a fascinating, quiet, sometimes melancholy game with the concepts of space and time in his collages titled "1954" (2004) for which he has used photographs from the architectural magazine "Baumeister" from 1954. His 16-mm film "UNTITLED" (1999) focuses on issues of globalization and cultural difference.
An artist book will be published on the occasion of the exhibition, which will include the text "THE WESTERN BALKANS: MOVING ON" from 2004. This Chaillot paper is a report by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), Paris, that deals with the geopolitical relations between the Balkan countries and the EU.
BOJAN SARCEVIC was born in Belgrade in 1974. He spent his childhood in Algeria and Morocco, but lived in Sarajevo, Bosnia, at the outbreak of war. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris until 1997 and after at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. His first solo exhibition took place at BQ in Cologne in 1999. Numerous solo presentations followed, including shows at the Modern Institute, Glasgow (2000); the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2001); Kunstverein Düsseldorf (2001); IAC Villeurbanne/Lyon (2003); Kunstverein München, Munich (2004); Galerie Carlier Gebauer, Berlin (2006); Kunstverein Heilbronn (2006); MAMbo – Museo d`Arte Moderna di Bologna (2007); Centre d`Art Contemporain d`Ivry – Le Crédac (2007). Selected group exhibitions: Manifesta 2, Luxemburg (1998); Centre Soleil d`Afrique, Bamako (2000); Musée d`Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2001); Kunstverein München, Munich (2003); Venice Biennial (2003); Tate Modern (2004); Berlin Biennale (2004); Kunstmuseum Bonn (2006). The artist lives and works in Berlin and Paris.
Christine Kintisch
KISSING THE BACK OF YOUR HAND MAKES A SOUND LIKE A WOUNDED BIRD
28 June - 1 September 2007
BOJAN SARCEVIC`s artistic practice comprises sculptures, architecture-related interventions, videos, photographic collages, and artist books. "REPLACE THE IRREPLACABLE" (2006) is a large-size object curved like a snail shell and made of pear-wood and brass. In contrast to this work, which oscillates between architecture and sculpture, the artist`s ephemeral, extremely fragile small sculptures may be read as enigmatic calligraphies or drawings in space. Šarcevic also plays a fascinating, quiet, sometimes melancholy game with the concepts of space and time in his collages titled "1954" (2004) for which he has used photographs from the architectural magazine "Baumeister" from 1954. His 16-mm film "UNTITLED" (1999) focuses on issues of globalization and cultural difference.
An artist book will be published on the occasion of the exhibition, which will include the text "THE WESTERN BALKANS: MOVING ON" from 2004. This Chaillot paper is a report by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), Paris, that deals with the geopolitical relations between the Balkan countries and the EU.
BOJAN SARCEVIC was born in Belgrade in 1974. He spent his childhood in Algeria and Morocco, but lived in Sarajevo, Bosnia, at the outbreak of war. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris until 1997 and after at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. His first solo exhibition took place at BQ in Cologne in 1999. Numerous solo presentations followed, including shows at the Modern Institute, Glasgow (2000); the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2001); Kunstverein Düsseldorf (2001); IAC Villeurbanne/Lyon (2003); Kunstverein München, Munich (2004); Galerie Carlier Gebauer, Berlin (2006); Kunstverein Heilbronn (2006); MAMbo – Museo d`Arte Moderna di Bologna (2007); Centre d`Art Contemporain d`Ivry – Le Crédac (2007). Selected group exhibitions: Manifesta 2, Luxemburg (1998); Centre Soleil d`Afrique, Bamako (2000); Musée d`Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2001); Kunstverein München, Munich (2003); Venice Biennial (2003); Tate Modern (2004); Berlin Biennale (2004); Kunstmuseum Bonn (2006). The artist lives and works in Berlin and Paris.
Christine Kintisch