Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic is pleased to present the solo exhibition by Marko Tadic, the winner of 2008 Radoslav Putar Award. The exhibition titled ‘I Speak True Things’ presents a series of the artist’s new works – drawings, video-installation and an artist-book, which together form a coherent unity, gathering at the same time diverse formal approaches the artist had used in his previous work. Archetypal (u)topos of myths and legends, novels, itineraries and scientific discussions, the Island is the symbol of the travel into the unknown, the unreachable goal of the explorers. The story begins like many other stories about the Island, but develops into a number of possible narratives and fragments of many other other stories…
Drawings on old geographical maps evoke works from the ‘Souvenirs’ and ‘Envelopes’ series, the video consisting of animated chalk drawing on the board formally follows ‘The Black Ouija Bord’, and the artist\’s book, consisting of postcards that repeat the motif of maps and combined with text, is ,in itself, a variation of the theme of previously exhibited author\’s books. Tadic chooses the back side of postcards for the beginning of the story. By appropriating existing syntagms and adding new ones, he creates a collage of associations, motifs and situations about the archetypal theme of the Island, the (non-)place of literature, philosophy and science. This fragmentary narrative continues on the space-time level through the exhibition – in the video-installation and on the level of playing with the sign in cartographic interventions. Semiotic-symbolic play with a dose of enigmatic atmosphere and search for the unreachable truth, as the constant backbone of Tadić’s work, is present also in ‘I Speak True Things’, in a complex, ambiguous and open web of relations of the sign, story and space.
Marko Tadic (b. 1979, Sisak, Croatia) graduated from Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. His work has been shown on a number of solo and group exhibitions. Recent solo exhibitions include: Salon ISCP (with Bekim Gllogu), ISCP New York, 2009, Radoslav Putar Award Finals, Galzenica Gallery, Velika Gorica, Croatia, 2008, Postcards, CKO Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, 2008, Souvenirs, VN Gallery; Zagreb, 2007, Linienstrasse113 Project, Linienstrasse113 Gallery, Berlin, 2007, Storyboards, Galženica Gallery, Velika Gorica, Croatia , 2007. Recent group exhibitions include: Financial District, curated by Miguel Amado, International Studio & Curatorial Program OPEN STUDIOS, New York, 2009, VISITING, MUU and FAFA Galleries, Helsinki, Finland, 2009, T-HT@MSU, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia, 2008, Donumenta, Regensburg , Germany, 2008, Glow Festival, Los Angeles, USA. He is the winner of several awards: Radoslav Putar Award in 2008, Youth Salon, Zagreb, Croatia, Award for Drawing, 2006, and first prize at Youth Salon, Sisak, in 2001 and 2002. During 2008 he was a participant of YVAA – Young Visual artists Awards, New York, USA, Kulturkontakt, Vienna, Austria and 18tth Street Art Center, Santa Monica, as well as of the Speak Up Workshop in Malmo, Sweden, 2004.
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Marko Tadic\’s exhibition at Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic is a part of the Radoslav Putar Award program, initiated and organized by the Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb. It follows the artist\’s 6-week residency, during February and March, 2008, at ISCP, New York, where the artist stayed as the winner of the 2007 Award. Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic , has the role of co-producer and organizer of the Award winning artist solo exhibition.Each year, the exhibition at G-MK marks also the closing of one, and beginning of the next cycle of the Radoslav Putar Award. So far, the winners of the Award have been: Tanja Dabo (2002), Nika Radic (2003), Igor Eskinja (2004), Antun Bozicevic (2005), Tina Gverovic (2006) and Vedran Perkov (2007)
