BREAKING STEP

2006 MUSEUM OF MODERN ART BELGRADE

HENRY VIII's WIVES 2D  ICONIC MOMENTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY        PERSONAL CONTRIBUTION ORDINANCE PHOTOGRAPH        THE FEAR OF DEATH        LIGHT WITHOUT SHADOW (THE POSTER)        RELIGIOSE LEADERS 3D  BREAKING STEP        LIGHT WITHOUT SHADOW        POPULISM        FANTOM        THE DESERT BEAUTIFUL 4D  MR. HYSTERIA        SPIRAL BETTY        THE LOWEST NOTE OF AN ORGAN = THE LENGHT OF A FINGERNAIL GROWN SINCE 1730 = 8HZ        VILLA JELMINI        MACHBARKEIT        GREEN STICK FRACTURE        THE DESERT BEAUTIFUL        DO YOU REMEMBER THIS HOUSE AT ALL?        FABRIKA DA POLVERA 5D  TATLIN's TOWER AND THE WORLD

"For the Belgrade exhibition, the collective will erect one part of the Tatlin monument – a 1:1 ratio fragment from the centre of the construction – as a monumental sculpture in public space, between the Museum of Contemporary Art and the building of the former Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party, now Business Centre Usce. Although the monument occupies a symbolic space, which epitomises both the discourse of Yugoslav modernity and the modernism of the socialist era (an appropriate context for Tatlin’s monument, and equally suitable for Tatlin himself), it does this in a space of proposition, rather than through the factual realisation of the ephemeral part of the construction. This sculptural realisation represents a steel construction weighing 11 tones, devoid of specific visual qualities or aesthetic value that would indicate the background it originates from. Therefore, the artistic declaration becomes decisive factor in recognizing the identity of this object, whose open gaps pose a question: Tatlin, original or fake; trick or truth? In the vein of Marcel Duchamp and his 55 cc of Paris Air, part of Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International raises our suspicion in the grand manner of the 'art of suspicion', and this mental game broadly encompasses institutional order in which the object functions – in this case the programmatic and the status setting of a public sculpture. Whatever the case may be, should the monument be built, it will likely become the largest ready-made ever made; it would concurrently call into question its own status as a ready-made (for its absurd, gigantic dimensions), and its own identity of a public sculpture in an urban space (for the mental game of truth and deception it sets off). " Jelena Vesic , Belgrade, 2007

HENRY VIII's WIVES 2D  ICONIC MOMENTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY        PERSONAL CONTRIBUTION ORDINANCE PHOTOGRAPH        THE FEAR OF DEATH        LIGHT WITHOUT SHADOW (THE POSTER)        RELIGIOSE LEADERS 3D  BREAKING STEP        LIGHT WITHOUT SHADOW        POPULISM        FANTOM        THE DESERT BEAUTIFUL 4D  MR. HYSTERIA        SPIRAL BETTY        THE LOWEST NOTE OF AN ORGAN = THE LENGHT OF A FINGERNAIL GROWN SINCE 1730 = 8HZ        VILLA JELMINI        MACHBARKEIT        GREEN STICK FRACTURE        THE DESERT BEAUTIFUL        DO YOU REMEMBER THIS HOUSE AT ALL?        FABRIKA DA POLVERA 5D  TATLIN's TOWER AND THE WORLD