27th October - 28th November 2015
Gallery Nova
Teslina 7, Zagreb
Gallery of Croatian Designers' Association
Boškovićeva 18, Zagreb
David Maljković's studio
Ribnjak 16, Zagreb
screening of David Maljković's films
10th November at 9.00 pm, Cinema Tuškanac, Croatian Film Association, Tuškanac 1, Zagreb
A Retrospective by Appointment attempts to provide a new reading of Maljković's practice by tracing common narratives and methods that occur in the media, formats and visual languages in his work. Although Maljković is best known for videos and installations, such as the video trilogy Scene for the New Heritage (2004-2006), he has always been interested in the spatial relationships of painting. This led him to explore different approaches to the construction of an image as well as elaborate exhibition methodologies, and this interest has always been a concern in his practice. Rather than present a chronological sequence, A Retrospective by Appointment brings together a range of works, as well as elements of installations from different stages of Maljković's career, to create an array of juxtapositions and clashes. The exhibition looks into methods, approaches and obsessions that are shared across the works, providing a composite overview of artist's practice. The intricate exhibition display, developed by Maljković, takes a nonhierarchical approach to all the works and objects, putting them side by side on seemingly inadequate, unlikely structures, an approach that aims to alter the viewers' perspectives with its cumulative effect.
A Retrospective by Appointment is not only the first retrospective by Maljković in Croatia but his first solo exhibition in the country since 2006. The fact that it will be shown across three rather modest, non-institutional spaces is both a comment on and a symptom of an inadequate institutional framework in Zagreb. But what might seem as a constraint of space becomes an avenue for taking an open, humorous approach to the retrospective format itself. The retrospective thus becomes personified through retrospective behavior.
The exhibition is curated by What, How & for Whom/WHW.
