Mladen Bizumic
01 Feb - 08 Mar 2014
MLADEN BIZUMIC
Kodak: la présence de l’image
1 February - 8 March 2014
galerie frank elbaz is pleased to present Kodak: la présence de l'image, the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Vienna-based artist Mladen Bizumic.
The exhibition revolves around a story of the Kodak's bankruptcy and the materiality of photographs. Historical materialism, deriving ultimately from Marx and developed by Lukács, manifested itself in writing about art that emphasized contexts and conditions of production over the most traditional topics such as iconography. Bizumic sets up displays of photographs that are ‘works’ plus their x value. The x value stands for a number of contextual factors such as architecture, location, framing devices. There is a constant tension between the works and their display, the content and the context.
Bizumic’s oeuvre is not about choosing one or the other but about the constant, precise and affirmative change of attention values. This fills space with time, opens up potentialities and creates new points of perception.
Kodak: la présence de l’image
1 February - 8 March 2014
galerie frank elbaz is pleased to present Kodak: la présence de l'image, the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Vienna-based artist Mladen Bizumic.
The exhibition revolves around a story of the Kodak's bankruptcy and the materiality of photographs. Historical materialism, deriving ultimately from Marx and developed by Lukács, manifested itself in writing about art that emphasized contexts and conditions of production over the most traditional topics such as iconography. Bizumic sets up displays of photographs that are ‘works’ plus their x value. The x value stands for a number of contextual factors such as architecture, location, framing devices. There is a constant tension between the works and their display, the content and the context.
Bizumic’s oeuvre is not about choosing one or the other but about the constant, precise and affirmative change of attention values. This fills space with time, opens up potentialities and creates new points of perception.