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VIDEOART IN CROATIA

Video-Instalations in Croatia

(1973-1998)

Video art in Croatia was highly synchronized with the world evolution of video art. However, it was characteristic for Croatian situation that the first video artists came from art scene, Art Academy in Zagreb, and not from film avant-garde tradition. That was the reason why video-installations, having a model in Nam June Paik activity, have become an inherent part of the artistic activity of those artists that made video art the focus of their art work — Dalibor Martinis and Sanja Iveković. As early as in 1974 Martinis exhibited his first video-installation Still Life: a TV set with the program going on on a piece of furniture covered with a red fabric, with an arranged set of an antic sculpture, a burning candle and a fruit basket — mildly ironizing bourgeois taste. This dualism between the »text« and »context« has become the main preoccupation of Dalibor Martinis. Sanja Iveković, besides doing video works, did a series of performances dealing often with issues of female situation.

The two dominated video-installation scene throughout the eighties, but the beginning of the nineties brought in not only war, but also the change in video-installation scene. Video-installations by Martinis, Iveković and some new authors like Ivan Faktor, Simon B. Narath, Zlatko Kopljar, Davor Mezak, Vlado Zrnić have shown indirect impact of the war. But the nineties, also, witnessed the proliferation of video-installation exhibitions and video-installation authors. Besides the names already mentioned that continued to work throughout the nineties, some new names appeared: Darko Fritz, Kristina Leko-Fritz, Sandro Đ ukić, Krešimir Farkaš, Wladimir Frelih, Zoran Pavelić, Toni Meštrović, Sandra Sterle, Dan Oki, Renata Poljak, Andreja Kulunčić, Marin Zorić — Zorge, Ivan Marušić Klif, Ivo Deković. Their individual installations are described, and their work interpreted. The paper contains the extensive bibliography on video art and video-installations in general as well as on individual artists.



Aleksandra Orlić

History of Videoart in Croatia
The Generation of Difference — New Videoart in Croatia
The Encyclopedia of Video Artists
Videography
Bibliography

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