Mladen Miljanović: Operation Hungary

2015.04.24 - 06.04.

 

Mladen Miljanović: Operation Hungary

 

acb Attachment, 24 April - 4 June 2015 

opening: 23 April 2015 (Thursday), 6-8 pm.

 

The program is organised within the framework of the OFF-Biennale Budapest.

 

Mladen Miljanović's latest project realized in the frame of OFF-Biennale Budapest will be presented in acb Attachment.

In his large scale (308x555 cm) painting Miljanović uses strategy of simulation in mapping a potential route of “art occupation” towards Hungary with military iconography. He frames the work as “top secret operation”, making plans how to achieve infiltration in the Hungarian cultural system.

In the painting named "Operation Hungary", Miljanovic uses strategy of simulation in mapping a potential route of “art occupation” towards Hungary with military iconography. He frames the work as “top secret operation”, making plans how to achieve infiltration in Hungarian cultural system intersecting it at the same time.  According to this, part of the work is Miljanovic’s own description of discourse:

”Operation Hungary is possible modus operandi of a Bosnian Serb artist who gains exhibition and occupyies cultural systems of attacked areas. This work is consisted of consists of a multi-media strategy used in simulating Art attacks with virtual invasion in an institutional gallery. My military education experience (infantry sergeant) is turned/applied in the field of culture where artistic projects are at the same time aware of strategic projects well.”

 

The program is organised within the framework of the Check Your Head! project of the OFF-Biennale Budapest. Curators of the project:  Nikolett Erőss, Anna Juhász, Hajnalka Somogyi, Tijana Stepanovic, Borbála Szalai, Katalin Székely, János Szoboszlai.

 

The exhibition is on view between 24 April and 4 June 2015.

 

For further information please visit http://offbiennale.hu/

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