Bologna
P420 is pleased to present 45 Years of Non-Painting, the second solo exhibition in the gallery by the Croatian artist Goran Trbuljak (Varaždin, 1948, lives and works in Zagreb), after the first show in 2014.
45 Years of Non-Painting is a show about painting, or perhaps it would be preferable to say painting seen through the artist’s countless attempts to not paint over the years. With constant self-deprecating wit, since the late 1960s Goran Trbuljak has played the role of a conceptual artist and painter, outside the main currents of the western art world. Starting in the 1980s, in the context of an art scene going through profound changes, Trbuljak has embodied the figure of the artist in crisis, skeptical, conscious, disillusioned, “an artist more for what he does not do than for what he does.”
Trbuljak has repeatedly adopted procedures of painting throughout his practice which question his own position as an artist, as well as art in the context and perception of contemporary society. His work examines the mechanisms by which something is accepted as art and confronts the autonomy of the museum-gallery system. With Trbuljak’s reductionist painting exercises he explores the concrete processes of creation that make a work of art. His methods, without any emotions, illusions, symbolism, narration or literature, examine the very essence of the painting and reduce art exclusively to its basic functions.
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Goran Trbuljak: 45 Years of Non-Painting
Via Azzo Gardino 9
40122 Bologna
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Entrance
Free
Interests
- Art & Culture
Timetables
10.30-13.30 e 15-19.30
