PHONY SMILE @ Galerija Fotografija

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PHONY SMILE @ Galerija Fotografija

March 4th, 2023 by fstop

PHONY SMILE – PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION AND AESTHETIC SPECULATION
22 FEBRUARY – 1 APRIL 2023

Edita Schubert, Petar Dabac, Željko Jerman, Vlado Martek and Željko Borčić

“The exhibition presents the work of Edita Schubert, Petar Dabac, Željko Jerman, Vlado Martek and Željko Borčić, directed at a radical examination of photography which mostly happened in the 1970s. That is precisely when the ontological questioning of the meaning of photography started, a time when the practices which examine the medium through an analytical approach appeared, as well as those which deal with the transformation from a two-dimensional surface into a photographic object. It seems that almost all existing photographic canons have been questioned. Within the context of New Art Practice, which changed the art paradigm of the time from the ground up, artists started to analyse photography outside of limitations of its historic role, that of reproducing reality. By bringing in a series of innovations to the understanding of the medium, both in a sense of formality, content and meaning, artists inaugurate a special speculative-poetic system into photography. In such a “widened” field, photography becomes a polygon for the redefinition of the very nature of art and artistic work.”

Galerija Fotografija
Levstikov trg 7
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia

https://galerijafotografija.si/exhibitions/139-phony-smile-photographic-interpretation-and-aesthetic-speculation/

Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia Type: Exhibition

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