Peter Freeman, Inc. presents a solo exhibition of Mladen Stilinović’s work for The Art Show 2024.
Just as money is paper, so is a gallery a room, curated by Branka Stipančić, will include fourteen works from 1977 to 2008 in different mediums including photography, collage, painting, sculpture, and installation that explore the topic of money in relation to artists and their work.
Mladen Stilinović (b. 1947, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; d. 2016, Pula, Croatia) was a neoconceptual artist and one of the leading figures of the New Art Practice in Yugoslavia, often exhibiting with the Group of Six Artists in the streets of Zagreb. From 1969 to 1976 he worked with experimental film. He began using other media in the mid-1970s including collage, photography, artist’s books, painting, installation, and actions exploring ideological signs and their social aspects. His work often criticizes the language of art, politics, and the role of money and labor in society, using the devices of irony, paradox, and manipulation.
Despite being active in the local art scene and occasionally showing internationally from the early 1970s onwards—such as in the 10th Biennale de Paris (1977), de Appel, Amsterdam (1979), and Neue Galerie Graz, Austria (1980), Stilinović only got his due recognition much later. His professional career as an established artist really began in the early 1990s, following socio-political changes in Eastern Europe, when an interest in artists from the region emerged. Since then, his work has been shown regularly in important exhibitions, including La 50 Biennale di Venezia, Italy (2003); documenta 12, Kassel, Germany (2007); Istanbul Biennale, Turkey (2009); The Promises of the Past, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010); Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2013); La 57 Biennale di Venezia, Italy (2017); Poetry & Performance: The Eastern European Perspective, travelling (2018–2021); and After the Wall, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2020).
His work is represented in museum collections including Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kontakt Collection, Vienna; Moderna galerija, Zagreb; Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
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