2023
Vlatka Horvat: Good Company / Dobro društvo
MSU Zagreb / Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
14.09.2023 – 12.11.2023.
Download Vlatka’s exhibition text here: ENG / HR
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From the wall text:
Vlatka Horvat’s Good Company presents a selection of works from the museum’s Sculpture collection through the lens of the artist’s practice.
In the space of the exhibition, small groups of works from different eras and artistic movements are placed in dialogue with each other. Figurative pieces and abstract works sit side by side, and their spatial arrangements underscore contrasts and connections between different formal gestures and sculptural materials. The artist’s selection and presentation of works offers a playful, dynamic view of the grouped sculptures, their relations, connections and possible interpretations.
Alongside the installation of works in space, Horvat has made an experimental wall-based publication in the form of seven new collages. These works respond to and deploy reference photographs of artworks taken from the collection database, creating sequences of images that link works via visual equivalences and contrasts, regardless of their scale. Staging morphological transformations from image to image, the work invites us to ask questions about how we understand the world through different forms of categorization and organization.
Relations that emerge between the works in the exhibition Good Company become a metaphor for relations within actual social structures. Affinities and connections, as well as differences and contrasts, are all at work in this loose assembly, raising questions about belonging and being together, about sharing space and the idea of community.
The exhibition is part of “Triggers”, an exhibition series in which invited artists engage in a dialogue with works from the Museum collection.
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Works in the show:
Na zidu / On the wall
Vlatka Horvat
Morphologies: From Fruit V to House in the Wind
Inkjet prints on Epson photo paper, artist tape, MDF display case
Vlatka Horvat
Morphologies: From Embraced Line to Flower
Inkjet prints on Epson photo paper, artist tape, MDF display case
Vlatka Horvat
Morphologies: From Slanted Sphere to Consumer Frenzy (Modified)
Inkjet prints on Epson photo paper, oil-based coloured pencil artist tape, MDF display case
Vlatka Horvat
Morphologies: From Games to Knot
Inkjet prints on Epson photo paper, artist tape, MDF display case
Vlatka Horvat
Morphologies: From Chronotopo to Horse Head (Modified)
Inkjet prints on Epson photo paper, oil-based coloured pencil artist tape, MDF display case
Vlatka Horvat
Morphologies: From Spontaneous Sculpture to Sketch for a Sculpture
Inkjet prints on Epson photo paper, artist tape, MDF display case
Vlatka Horvat
Morphologies: From Horsewoman (Europe) to Dispersed Strength
Inkjet prints on Epson photo paper, artist tape, MDF display case
U prostoru / In the exhibition space
Zvonimir Santrač
Kocka / Cube, 1982
terracotta
23,7 x 23,4 x 25
Slavomir Drinković
Veliko drvo Sv. Sebastijan / Large Tree of St. Sebastian, 1984
wood, iron
164 x 67 x 69
Vera Fischer
Petlja / Knot, 1960
iron sheet
39 x 27 x 25
Oto Logo
Skulptura 27 / Sculpture 27, 1966
bronze
54 x 47 x 18,5
Olga Jančić
Bremenite forme / Pregnant Forms, 1959
bronze
37,5 x 13,7 x 15,4
Ivan Kožarić
Spontana skulptura / Spontaneous Sculpture, 1978
wood, paint, aluminium sculpture “Shape of Space” from 1966
70 x 62 x 33,5
Ivan Kožarić
Globus / The Globe, 1977
fiberglass
50 x 50 x 50
Zlatko Šimunović
Objekt M-6 / Object M-6, 1974
wood, metal, Formica
37 x 50 x 40
Seka Severin Tudja
F – 2, 1975
ceramics
46,5 x 42,5 x 42,5
Vera Fischer
Oblik / Form, 1975
wire mesh
19 x 23 x 20
Belizar Bahorić
Iz starog albuma / From an Old Album, 1959
bronze
25 x 20,5 x 19,5
Dimče Naumov
Građena misao / Constructed Thought, 1966
wood
67 x 41 x 25,5
Darivoj Čada
Biti dio skulpture / To Be Part of Sculpture, 1977
iron
250 x 60 x 15
Šime Vulas
Svijeća / Candle, 1963-1977
wood
122,4 x 33,2 x 23
Branko Ružić
Puran / Turkey, 1979
wood
35 x 29 x 25
