Marko Tadić
Prevented Landscapes (2024)
Courtesy of the artist
There is an underlying conflict in the works of Marko Tadić that might not be obvious at first glance, a hidden critical edge in his research displays and installations. From afar, many of them look like modernist exhibitions in miniature, made in tribute to early 20th-century abstraction and involving intricately crafted stands, shelves, and holders that are works of art in themselves.
Mimicking small breviaries from canonical art history, they display postcards of 19th-century Europe, overpainted with abstract forms inspired by the biological shapes familiar from early- to mid-20th-century art. These forms partially blot out the cities of a continent destroyed by two world wars as well as more recent conflicts. They appear as alien insertions, hints at an uncertain future of which the solid historicist buildings remain oblivious. The painted shapes offer a vague perspective on modernity that the 19th century opened like a Pandora’s box.
Marko Tadić (1979, Sisak, Croatia) is an artist who works with drawing, installation, and animation. His films have been shown at many international animation and experimental film festivals, and his works have been exhibited worldwide in numerous solo and group exhibitions. He has won the Vladimir Nazor Prize and the Radoslav Putar Prize, among others. In 2017, he represented Croatia at the 57th Venice Biennale together with Tina Gverović. Tadić teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Zagreb and at NABA, Milan. He lives in Zagreb.
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’24
Education event
20.9., 16:30
Exhibition tour with Ieva Epnere and Marko Tadić
Mixed-media installation
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’24
Education event
20.9., 16:30
Exhibition tour with Ieva Epnere and Marko Tadić
