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culture without which the future of europe
is unimaginable.
one must mention here the strong presence
of artists such as the serbian Marina

abramovic, the Turk huseyin alptekin, the
Bulgarians nedko solakov and luchezar
Bojadijev, the croat sanja ivekovic, the
romanian group subreal, the albanian
> adrian Paci, the slovenian group irwin,

whose names are already vehiculated/
conveyed in the international environment.
one could add also some less-known

names such as Teodor graur, andrei ujica,
the female group eclipse, Zoran naskovski,
vlasta Delimar, kiril Prashkov, ivana keser,
vlado Martek, Braco Dmitrijevic, Tanja

ostojic, anri sala, rasa Todosijevic, that
would deserve more attention. Between
the ethnographical temptation, due to the
picturesque “otherness” that this region still

preserves in the mind of many Westerners,
on one side, and the temptation of an
internationalized visual jargon, induced by
any “mega show” intended to recuperate

and integrate a subject on the planetary
cultural market, on the other side, the
three curators have succeeded to keep
a good balance. The artists’ works focus

mainly on the recent totalitarian past or the
confuse, insecure, “transitional” present,
on aggressive nationalism and obsolete
parochialism, on economic and political

misery, and last but not least on pro- and
anti-Western clicheés. But what

VL ASTA DELiMAR
Walk as l aDy goDiva 2002
3 color PhoTogr aPhs on Plexigl ass
100 x 140 cM. each
courTesy of The arTisT

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