Monuments Should Not Be Trusted

This exhibition at the Nottingham contempary showed the art and culture between the 1960's and the 1980's in Yugoslavia.

August Cernigoj

August's work drew me in straight away because of the vibrant mood board type collages he created. I love the use of imagery as he has combined fashio, pop and film 'icons' of the time period as well as adding in a bit of political history within the images like the flags, symbols (swastika) and uniform (navy?). These images were some of my favourite from the exhibition.


Marko Pogacnik

 
I love this pop art created by Marko Pogaknik. I like how he has very simply made a puzzle/collage by just priniting the image of The Rolling Stones on to matchboxes and placing them together to make up the image. It is simple yet creative and I was drawn in by the bright colours.

Beli Ljudje

Beli made a film called "white people"
http://espectrofilia.ricardogreene.cl/post/17810803776/beli-ljudi

I was quite fascinated by the video clips that they put together as it was very visually stimulating and dream like which made me confused, shocked, happy and more whilst watching it. I haven't reacted to a video as much as I did this video so it really stood out at the exhibition and was probably my favourite thing there.

"The breakaway from traditional styles like socialist modernism was exemplified by groups like OHO, by the late 1960s influenced by Art Povera and land art, seen here in films like White People (1970), where the artists wrap each other in tinfoil, blow bubbles in milk, pretend to be sheep by sticking wool to their naked skin, throw down flour and roll around in it, and then, in the final scenes, set off smoke bombs in a bleached landscape of snow and fog. The group merged into the land, in fact, setting up their own commune in rural Slovenia in 1971." - http://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2016/02/monuments-should-not-be-trusted-reviewed/