MLADEN BIZUMIC
MLADEN BIZUMIC (b.1976) has exhibited at the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna; the 10th Istanbul Biennial; the 9th Lyon Biennale; the Zacheta National Museum, Warsaw; the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris; the Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna; and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand among others / He has studied at the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts and Art Theory and Cultural Studied with Prof. Diedrich Diederchsen at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna / In 2004, he was a Frances Hodgikns Fellow at the University of Otago and in 2006, an Artist-in-Residence at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin / Bizumic makes installations that appear like sites or scenes that await event of their occurrence / He sets up arrangements that are always ‘works’ plus their x value / The x value stands for a number of contextual factors that constitute any exhibition (location, architecture, exhibition duration, institution etc.) / There is a constant tension between the works and their display, the content and the context / Bizumic’s practice is not about choosing one or the other but about the permanent, precise and playful change of attention values / This ‘fills’ space with time, opens up potentialities and creates new points of perception / For example, in his project for Freud Museum (for Her) in Vienna, Bizumic instals a vitrine of architectural fragments from Viennese buildings and paints them in the colour of their own shadows / These are accompanied by two commissioned works: a piano piece composed by his Vienna-born fiancée and a ‘psychoanalytic poem’ written by his mother, a psychologist / Local material including the built environment of Vienna, finds its way into a museum, reframed as a self-consciously ‘historical’ display, which, in turn, it is translated and abstracted in both highly structured and oddly subjective ways / For which is the musical note that figures the sound of a built form? What is the ‘unconscious’ of rubble that can be put into a poem?
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7 SEAS & 7 SCREENS / a portable document format book by Mladen Bizumic / 54 pages / digital size 4 MB / available to download here / as long as it lasts
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FROM CUBE TO BALL: EDITION OF NONE / 120 pages / hardcover made of Carrara Marble and Gibboard / printed and glued on Mramor art paper / overall physical size 210 x 297mm / digital size 46,5 MB / available to download here until the end of the "Erschaute Bauten" exhibition at the MAK, Vienna / 06/12/2011 - 22/04/2012 /
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CONTACT ADDRESS mladenmladen@yahoo.com
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