Tag: contemporary art
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By cleaning monuments, it draws attention to their significance
Interview for etrafika.net 29/09/2021 Visual artist Mak Hubjer has been cultivating the practice of cleaning monuments for seven years. The idea came when he developed an interest in cultural monuments, but also in general monuments in public spaces. He graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo and is currently attending a […]
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Is this my final form?
When we talk about the destruction of monuments and what represents the monumental heritage we are talking about a kind of memory destruction. Every act of conservation and restoration invariably affects and transforms the original essence of the heritage, which involves a certain degree of loss. The obsession with physical preservation is so great embodied […]
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A monument to a monument
A monument to a monument/ 2022 Trying to investigate spatiality in its social conditioning, Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991)10 distinguishes three levels of space: spatial practice, representation of space, and representational space. The last level represents the space of the “lived” filled with “associated images and symbols” – that is, the representational space, shaped by objects that […]
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