koni
badurina
vodi kroz galeriju
guide to the gallery
7. 30. III. 2013.
antun marai
galerija
kao izloak
nost, agresija... Naprotiv - tiina, bjelina, svjetlo, sjena...; izmicanje, usporavanje, zastajanje, nepominost...;
samozatajnost, odsutnost, defenzivnost, dugotrajnost... atributi su i kategorije koje obiljeavaju njezino razmiljanje, ponaanje i rad. U sluaju
ove izlobe, Boena diskretnim sredstvima pretvara samu Galeriju u izloak. Reagirajui aktivno na prostor
izlaganja, umjetnica animira njegove
inae neistaknute aspekte, istodobno kao predtekst vlastite kreacije i kao
prijedlog aktiviranja posjetitelja kojemu pritom osporava uobiajenu rutinu konzumiranja umjetnosti. No zauzvrat prua mu priliku za novi prijem
stvarnosti, za otvaranje novih mentalnih prostora, odnosno za osvjetavanje vlastitih zanemarenih duhovnih
potencijala.
Izloba Boene Koni Badurine prva
je u programskom ciklusu Galerije Forum koji poinje njezino novo vodstvo.
Svojim znaajem ova izloba i istie tu
startnu poziciju, odnosno predstavlja
neku vrstu paradigme nastojanja da
se Galerija osvijesti kao prostor i regenerira kao mjesto ivog proimanja
sa svojim uim i irim, urbanim i kulturnim kontekstom te boljim dijelom
vlastite tradicije.
Vodi kroz Galeriju, postav izlobe (Sugestije, Richter, crtei, 2013.) | Guide to the
Gallery, exhibition set up (Suggestions, Richter, drawings, 2013)
antun marai
gallery
as exhibit
Anything that might recall a conventional set up, anything suggestive of a gallery venue as recipient for objects of one
kind or another is only dubious and provisional at the Boena Koni Badurina
exhibition. The twenty five pencil drawings, small in size, modestly framed in
natural wood with a glaze of transparent white paint, visually tend towards a
loss of their physical nature, that is, towards merging with the whiteness of the
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X-ray depiction, the office of the manag- The equally agreeable audio recording
er of the Gallery that lies behind the wall Street also tells of this outside world beis depicted. The drawing is also accom- hind the glass of the Gallerys window, a
panied by a sound recording that tells us story from which the visitor can find out
of the contents of the office, the furnish- something about Antonija, a shop assisings and other items as well as about its tant visible through the window of the
history. Thus, looking at the elevation shop over the way, about her angle of vidrawing we learn, among other things, sion and viewpoint on the Gallery, which
that the office was once occupied by a she looks at everyday from her workgraphic workshop, with next to it a pho- place, but which she has never yet entographic laboratory. In this way, the tered; listen about what goes on in the
guide informs us, the Forum Gallery, a yard opposite the Gallery; find out the
unique specimen of an exhibition space names of the tenants on the bell pushfounded and run by artists, enabled its es in the passage and have his or her atmembers not only to have control over tention drawn to the striped blind on the
the programme and the way it was di- first floor of the opposite building, which
rected, but also a high quality production is almost never raised.
framework in which to realise their works. The artist supplements the story of the
Going downstairs to the ground floor neighbourhood by taking on an extra, a
again, if they did not already do so when stroller with a red scarf, who in front of
they arrived, the visitors will have the the Gallery window display during the
chance to hear the story about the Gal- time the exhibition is on will bring a note
lerys (lady) custodian. She will herself of- of the artificial into the existing spontafer the person an MP3 player and head- neous street traffic. In this manner the
phones and sitting opposite her, from daily goings on outside seem to be prothe simple, informative but also poetic moted as a whole into some directed,
text by the author on the recording, they theatrical or filmic event that we follow
will find out some details about her origin, on stage, on the screen, in the proscenieducation, her affinities, her earlier jobs, um of the gallery window wall.
and her experience of work in the Gallery. This exhibition is the most recent and
The voice of the announcer will tell us at the most finished in a series of the artthe end that Marija (the custodian) is de- ists appearances in the last few years, in
lighted by the Gallerys total openness which she, irrespective of whatever meonto the street People sometimes tap dia forms are involved, shifts the frameon the glass, which vibrates, and then work of perception and opens up the
she feels like a fish in an aquarium.
possibility for a more vigorous sense of
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space, of ones own body, mind, interaction with another person. All this in a
way to which intrusiveness, spectacle,
aggression and incongruity are foreign
On the contrary: silence, whiteness,
light, shadow; slipping aside, slowing down, halting, immobility; self-abnegation, absence, defensiveness, lastingness these are the attributes and
categories that mark her thinking, behaviour and work. In the case of this exhibition, with her discreet means Boena
turns the Gallery itself into exhibit. Reacting actively to the exhibition space, the
artist animates its actually not very emphasised aspects, both as pre-text for
her own creation and as a proposal to
activate the visitor, whose usual routine
of art consumption is disputed. But in return, she offers the chance for a new accession of reality, for the opening up of
mental spaces, for becoming conscious
of his or her own perhaps somewhat
rusty spiritual potentials.
The Boena Koni Badurina exhibition is the first in a programme cycle of
the Forum Gallery started under its new
management. The significance of this
exhibition points up this starting position,
that is, it presents a kind of paradigm of
the ambition for the Gallery to be made
aware of as space and to be regenerated as place of live permeation with its
context, narrower and broader, urban
and cultural, and with the better part of
its own tradition.
ured | office
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The drawing on the wall is an elevation drawing showing in life size the office of the manager of the Forum Gallery that lies behind the wall.
The room is equipped with the usual office furniture. There are two desks, books on shelves,
file holders and exhibition catalogues, a coffee table and two chairs. On the walls there
are photographs of founders and members
of the Forum Gallery, photographs from various vernissages, a framed poster for New Year
Selling Exhibition of 1981 and Exhibition of Artists of the Forum Gallery of 1988, telling of the
rich and interesting history of the Gallery. There
are a few more details that make office life a bit
more pleasant: a small radio on a white shelf,
a coffee machine, a violet in a decorative pot
on the desk
Before it was changed into an office, this room
was for many years used as a silkscreen printing workshop, in which the Gallerys members
printed the posters for their exhibitions. The
big window with the view onto the inner courtyard provided enough daylight, welcome for
work in the studio. In the room opposite the
office, in which the archives are located today, there was one more printmaking workshop, and the Gallery also had a photographic lab. In this way the Forum Gallery, a unique
specimen of an exhibition space founded and
run by artists, enabled its members not only to
have control over the programme and the way
it was directed, but also a high quality production framework in which to realise their works.
marija
Vitka, visoka djevojka, duge smee kose koja
e vam po potrebi pomoi u pokretanju MP3
ureaja, ponuditi da sjednete za njezin stol, odgovoriti na eventualna pitanja o izlobi, a moda i malo pocrvenjeti ako je nekoliko trenutaka
budete netremice gledali... je Marija Boroviki
- uvarica postava u Galeriji Forum.
Marija ve sedamnaest godina ivi u Zagrebu,
no jako je vezana uz Korulu gdje je provela djetinjstvo i gdje joj ivi dio obitelji. Sve donedavno na otoku je provodila nekoliko mjeseci godinje, uglavnom zbog poslova u maslinarstvu
i ekolokoj tradicijskoj proizvodnji kojom se njezini bave.
Marija je diplomirala povijest umjetnosti i etnologiju i kulturnu antropologiju na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu. Tijekom studija obavljala je
razne poslove da bi dodatno zaradila. Godinama je radila u sportskom turizmu: turiste je vodila na slobodno penjanje, rijene spustove kajacima i jedrenje. Na rijekama i jedrenju doivjela
je najljepe trenutke u ivotu.
Stairala je takoer nekoliko mjeseci u Laubi,
kui za ljude i umjetnost, u Zagrebu, gdje je bila
zaduena za vodstva, pisala tekstove i bila kustosica na izlobi Marka Tadia.
U Galeriji Forum radi od poetka godine kao volonterka i uvarica, a i budua je staistica Galerije. Vodstva obavlja spontano, za one koji vole
razgovarati i sluati. Ponekad i posjetitelji njoj
odre vodstvo.
Prosjena dob posjetitelja je oko ezdeset godina, a dolaze esto i sedamdesetogodinjaci, osamdesetogodinjaci... uglavnom ljudi
koji rad Galerije prate jo od mladih dana. Satima moe sluati prie tih ljudi o njihovu ivotu, umjetnicima, dogaajima i gradu kakav je
bio nekada. Marija je osobito slaba na taj grad
nekada.
Ponekad u Galeriju uu i beskunici. Iako najee prose, jednom je uao ovjek sa psom
koji ju je oduevio. O Kulmeru i njegovim slika-
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ulica | street
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koje radnje dolaze. Iz Filatelije Boki posve sigurno ne. Moda iz postolarske radnje u tronoj dvorinoj zgradi na broju 15 C, s koje je otpao komad oluka
Dok u trgovinu Karla uglavnom ulaze dotjerane
gospoe i mlade djevojke, moglo bi se rei da
u susjedni restoran brze hrane Pizza duck ulaze predstavnici gotovo svih slojeva drutva, od
beskunika do dobrostojeih ljudi.
Na prvom katu zgrade preko puta prugaste rolo-zavjese gotovo se nikada ne miu
Naveer se vrlo rijetko pali svjetlo u nekom od
stanova na drugom katu
Katkad radnici vuku ulicom golem teret, stvarajui pritom veliku buku
Svake subote ulicom redovito prolazi plavi
vlaki Prijatelj djece
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biografija | biography
znaajnije izlobe,
projekti i performansi
u posljednjih nekoliko godina
| major exhibitions,
projects and performances
in the last few years
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prijevod | translation
Graham McMaster
urednik | editor
Antun Marai
predgovor | preface
Antun Marai
Tekstovi za audiozapise |
Scripts for audio recordings
Boena Koni Badurina
lektura | proof reading
Rosanda Tometi
fotografije | photographs
Tomislav Turkovi, Antun Marai
grafiko oblikovanje | design
Tomislav Turkovi, www.tTom.info
tisak | printing
Kerschoffset, Zagreb
Tiskano u Hrvatskoj, 2013. |
Printed in Croatia, 2013
naklada | edition
250
izlobu omoguili |
the exhibition has been made possible by
Gradski ured za obrazovanje, kulturu i port,
Zagreb i Ministarstvo kulture RH | City office
for education, culture and sport, Zagreb and
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia
statisti, izvoai za rad Ulica |
extras, performers for Street
Robert angulin, Vanja Babi, Igor Vujatovi
zahvale | acknowledgements
Davor Mehkek, Printeraj, Zagreb
Vesna Tominac Matai, spikerica | voice artist
Miroslav eb, snimatelj | sound engineer