{"id":2577,"date":"2013-01-22T14:32:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T19:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/h\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2013-03-13T10:49:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T15:49:32","slug":"mladen-miljanovic-good-night-state-of-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/mladen-miljanovic-good-night-state-of-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Mladen Miljanovic- “Good Night” (State of Body)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cGOOD NIGHT \u201d (STATE OF BODY)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Gallery MC is proud to present the first solo exhibition in New York by artist Mladen Miljanovic, the representative of the Bosnia & Hercegovina Pavilion\u00a0at the 55th<\/sup>\u00a0Venice Biennale. The exhibition\u00a0Good Night \u2013 State of Body<\/i>\u00a0features new\u00a0\u00a0photographic works as well as a performance\u00a0At the Edge<\/i>\u00a0that will be enacted live by the artist during the opening.<\/p>\n

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Inherent in Miljanovic work is the notion of acting as a disciplined and diligent soldier\/worker, who serves in the name of art. The majority of his pieces begin with an action rooted in his own immediate environment.\u00a0 He then alters the circumstances creating new possibilities that are presented to the wider world of art.\u00a0As Galit Eilat & Alenka Gregoric note:\u00a0\u201c\u00a0The social and political setting of the post-war Bosnian society, as well as the effects of wars which are manifested on the daily political scene, ethnic and religious divides and social instability, are constant elements in Miljanovic\u2019s performances, videos and installations.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The photographic work\u00a0Show With Your Hand Where You Feel Pain<\/i>\u00a0is a documentation of an intimate yet difficult dialogue between a married couple,\u00a0capturing the struggling and often unpleasant moments of a life that slowly expires.\u00a0The husband, an ex-soldier is deaf, completely disabled and suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a consequence of the last Yugoslavian war. He communicates through a written diary in which the wife writes most private and personal notes. The artist creates a photo narrative confronting the viewer with an arduous daily reality by depicting\u00a0extremely vulnerable and mundane instances of life. \u00a0Never portraying the human form itself, the suffering is embodied through semantics. By not representing the individual Miljanovic gives us the liberty to imagine the deteriorating body. It is through language and photography that he\u00a0urges us to reflect on the boundaries and role of art. Should one accept a brutal action for the sake of art? How far is a creator allowed to push himself in the name of art?<\/div>\n
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Mladen Miljanovic (b 1981) in Zenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, graduated from the Academy of Art in Banja Luka. In 2007 he receives the ZVONO prize for best Bosnian young artist. He has had solo exhibitions worldwide including State of Body, A+A Gallery, Venice, (2012), Taxi To Berlin, Antje Wachs Gallery, Berlin, (2011), Museum Service, MUMOK, Vienna, (2010), Sarajevo Service, National Gallery of B & H, Sarajevo, (2010), Occupational Therapy, Center in Galerija P 74, Ljubljana (2009), Occupo, Neue Gallerie, Graz, (2007). Group exhibitions include\u00a0Either\/Or”\u00a0MS Dockville, Hamburg (2012),\u00a014×14″ Donumenta, Kunstforum Gallery, Regensburg (2012),\u00a0Survey of the Danube region”\u00a0Oberfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf (2012),\u00a0Not So Distant Memory \u201c, Dalewer Contemporary Art Center, Wilmington (2011), \u201cBeyond The Truth\u201d, Mestna galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana (2011), It`s Time We Got to Know Each Other, 53. October Salone, Belgrade (2011),\u00a0\u201cIron Applause\u201d, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (2011),\u00a0\u201cNo Network\u201c International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Konjic (2011), The End of the World as We Know It \u201c, Kunsthalle – Mullhouse (2010), Condensations of the Social\u201c Smack Mellon, New York (2009).<\/div>\n
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