Zivko Grozdanic
THE TAUTOLOGY OF TENETS

"The contrast and conflict, tension which arouses from the encounters or clashes, from the interaction of two contrasted, opposed, binary conditions and properties of materials, mediums and their connotations (small-big, soft-hard, solid-breakable, lying-upright, horizontal-vertical, inner-outer, covered-exposed, visible-invisible, oval-rectangular, found-embellished, caught-cultivated, handicraft-industrial, organic-technical, natural-technological, manual-mechanical, prefabricated-postfabricated, accidental-planned etc.)"
All the enumerated tenets have always been the principles on which all my former performed works-objects-installations called "allegories" rested. This last exhibition is the continuation of tenets listing, or new tautology of tenets, to which new objects from the immediate surrounding, this time from the political-mythological sphere are added. All the objects displayed are both concrete and metaphorical, and can exist in the same way in the real world, and in the world of art. However, all the works have strengthened and emphasized physical part, because of their evident presence in the artist's consciousness, so you can get the impression that they are far away from the art. Not one work should represent the work of art. That was my main task on a few previous exhibitions: displacing of art. The work "Bull testicles blood" is almost literal, because I put 150 real bull testicles on a steel stand which look like art. In the text of the recipe or the instructions about how they are prepared for eating in Serbian way, I offered a cipher for detecting a meaning, contents with the help of well known observations of Craig Owens that "words are often regarded as pure visual phenomena, while visual images (testicles here) are offered as a writing that should be deciphered." Barrels full of bull testicles and real blood and object with sinks for hand washing or ablution are also the parts of the same work. In all the works, I tried to displace the objects from the allegoric net and artistic context and to strengthen the impression of the possible psychological projections.