David Maljkovic - Solo Show, Dvir Gallery Tel Aviv - May 13 - June 24 2017 This exhibition is a continuation of Maljkovic’s previous practice of using his earlier works as “raw material” for creating new relations by “recycling” both the content and the form. The exhibition questions the nature of working space, living space, and city space. Maljkovic’s work delves into the malleability of the collective and individual experience of time and space. The artist presents viewers with works that create their own space, time and history, while also hinting at answers to the uncertainty of an unknowable future. In so doing, Maljkovic often plays on the possibilities allowed by the mediums at hand, making works that have a more intuitive use of the materials. Maljkovic embraces the collage method and self-referentiality by (re)using his earlier works as raw material in order to reach a high level of complexity in his work. The exhibition spins around a network of subtle signs, fragments, transformations, metamorphoses and references. There is a certain parallelism on stage, in which, the space of everyday routine as well as artistic practice is approached. This is visible on the two-dimensional surface where a photograph serves as a backdrop for the fine network of drawing on the surface. These lines recall the various metamorphoses of the artist’s work. The interspace of these two opposing realities creates the theme. Maljkovic’s new objects follow the subtle narrative of the collage, although not always in an obvious way. The logic of the exhibition thus continues in the objects' work that also disrupts the image and deconstructs the posited narrative. Here, the intimate space rejects its own mood, and in its deconstruction it becomes a hybrid artifact in which new experiences are being enabled.
Maljkovic’s work delves into the malleability of the collective and individual experience of time and space.
The artist presents viewers with works that create their own space, time and history, while also hinting at answers to the uncertainty of an unknowable future. In so doing, Maljkovic often plays on the possibilities allowed by the mediums at hand, making works that have a more intuitive use of the materials.
Maljkovic embraces the collage method and self-referentiality by (re)using his earlier works as raw material in order to reach a high level of complexity in his work. The exhibition spins around a network of subtle signs, fragments, transformations, metamorphoses and references.
There is a certain parallelism on stage, in which, the space of everyday routine as well as artistic practice is approached. This is visible on the two-dimensional surface where a photograph serves as a backdrop for the fine network of drawing on the surface. These lines recall the various metamorphoses of the artist’s
work. The interspace of these two opposing realities creates the theme.
Maljkovic’s new objects follow the subtle narrative of the collage, although not always in an obvious way.
The logic of the exhibition thus continues in the objects' work that also disrupts the image and deconstructs the posited narrative. Here, the intimate space rejects its own mood, and in its deconstruction it becomes a hybrid artifact in which new experiences are being enabled.