Vlado Martek

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Vlado Martek (* 1951 in Zagreb , Croatia ) is a Croatian artist who deals with the visualization of the written word. In his works he works with poems, sometimes only with their fragments, which he stages with the help of murals, graffiti, prints, drawings, sketches, collages, actions and agitations, graphics and artist books. Vlado Martek currently lives in Zagreb, where, in addition to his artistic work, he has also been working as a librarian since 1979.

life and work

Vlado Martek studied literature and philosophy at the University of Zagreb . Soon Martek was looking for other means of expression besides poetry and went public in 1974. With the photographer Željko Jerman and the then art student Boris Demur, he put up posters for the underpass of a well-known main thoroughfare in Zagreb with large-format pictures. Under this he put one of his poems in large letters in poster format for the first time. A year later he founded the group of six artists (Grupa šestorice autora) with Mladen Stilinović , Sven Stilinović , Fedor Vučemilović , Boris Demur and Željko Jerman . Until 1979, the artists' association held over 20 events in the streets of Zagreb.

Martek's basis is the field of tension fed by philosophy, poetry and visual arts . In his works he negates and constructs the words to visualize reality between the lines. He describes the resulting reduction and concentration of poetry as prepoetry. Here his interests come together from linguistics to psychology to anthropology and anthroposophy . Martek describes it as follows: “Pre-poetry is controlling, an evasion into space before writing, controlling my head, my motives as to why I write, my responsibility, a tidying up before I write a poem. In that sense it is a provacation in language, by destruction but also construction. ”Martek uses a wide range of media and materials to critically, humorously and analytically question and present social structures.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2012: The Power of Support / Die Kraft des Untergrunds, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
  • 2011: Lisez Mallarmé, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris
  • 2010: Poetry in Action, Gallery P - 74, Ljubljana & Gallery Kraljević, Zagreb
  • 2008: Retrospective, Modern Gallery, Zagreb
  • 2004: Small Exhibiton, Mala Galerija, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
  • 1998: Samizdats, City Library, Zagreb
  • 1996: Troubles with the Content, Galerie Zvonimir, Zagreb; Troubles with Ethics, Š-OU-Galerija Kapelica, Ljubljana
  • 1988: Works on paper, Ingird Dacić Gallery, Tübingen
  • 1985: Vlado Martek - Hermafroditski bojevnik, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana
  • 1984: Vlado Martek, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana
  • 1982: (Pre) poetry environment, Studio Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
  • 1980: Book-Work (with Mladen Stilinovic), Studentskog centra gallery, Zagreb
  • 1979: Elementary processes in poetry, Podroom, Zagreb

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2012: The Present and Presence, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana
  • 2011: MULTIPLE IS HUMAN, Edition Block, Berlin
  • 2010: You Are Kindly Invited To Attend, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
  • 2009: Who killed the Painting ?, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen
  • 2005: Collective Creativity, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
  • 2003: In the gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
  • 2002: In Search of Balkania, Neue Galerie, Graz
  • 2000: Chinese Whispers, Apex Art Gallery, New York
  • 1999: Aspects / Positions, Museum Moderner Kunst SLW, Vienna
  • 1993: The Horse who Sings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
  • 1990: Signs in the River, Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna
  • 1976: Confrontation, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb

literature

  • Dubravka Djuric, Misko Suvakovis (eds.): Impossible Histories: Historic Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918–1991. 2003, ISBN 0-262-04216-9 .
  • Vlado Martek: Volim Citati Poeziju. Zagreb 2001, ISBN 953-6010-94-1 .
  • Vlado Martek: Predpoezija. Zagreb 2008, ISBN 953-7342-09-3 .
  • Vlado Martek: Akcije pisanja. Zagreb 1997, ISBN 953-6010-48-8 .
  • Branka Stipančić: Vlado Martek - Poezija u akciji / Poetry in Action. Zagreb 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stipančić, Branka: Vlado Martek - Poezija u akciji / Poetry in Action, Zagreb.
  2. ↑ Stipančić, Branka: Vlado Martek - Poezija u akciji / Poetry in Action, Zagreb 2010, 36.
  3. ↑ Stipančić, Branka: Vlado Martek - Poezija u akciji / Poetry in Action, Zagreb
  4. ↑ http://www.aanantzoo.de/?q=content/vlado-martek
  5. ↑ http://www.aanantzoo.de/?q=content/vlado-martek
personal data
SURNAME Martek, Vlado
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb