19 Jul 2011

CINEMANIAC X - 10 YEARS. Group exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of the Cinemaniac project

CINEMANIAC X - 10 YEARS
Group exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of the Cinemaniac project

Solo exhibitions
Jagoda Kaloper: A Woman in a Mirror
Renata Poljak: Works 2000 – 2010

Concept and curated by: Branka Benčić

The Cinemaniac exhibition resulted from the need to present innovations from the world of art and cinema, works of art that come to life at the crossroads of these media. From its very beginnings the exhibition has represented an active context of research where art works are presented, where social, cultural, technological, media-related and aesthetic aspects integrate, where art, artists, institutions and spectators meet and cooperate, raising questions about the relationship of film and visual arts. It is a place where recent Croatian and international productions of films, artistic videos, experimental films, alternative films and multimedia installations are presented, where alternative film heritage is revealed and articulated and where new artists and valuable works are presented.

The 10th edition – Cinemaniac X is envisaged as a dynamic small format retrospective which gathers some of the peaks of the constant ten- year work in the field of presentation of contemporary audiovisual artistic production, contextualization and establishment of the process of curating moving images in the context of a gallery – works by J. T. Anderson, Rä di Martino, Tim Etchells, Ivan Faktor, different forms of documentation – photodocumentation of exhibits by Dalibor Martinis and Alejandro Cesarec, opening photographs and installation views, press clips, catalogues, invitations and posters published and presented in Pula in the past ten years. Although closely communicating with the character of a retrospective, the exhibition does not pay homage to itself. It is an auto-reflexive gesture and it is dedicated to film – through a selection of works formed around film references and quotes, film as part of popular culture.

Alongside Cinemaniac X, the independent exhibitions section will present the work of Jagoda Kaloper and Renata Poljak, artists of different generations tackling the topics of the constitution of a female subject and the questions of identity. A Woman in a Mirror by Jagoda Kaloper is an autobiographical film collage in which the author combines excerpts from the films she appeared in the sixties and the seventies. Renata Poljak's videos and photographs are defined by sets of references to the dynamics of power and political and personal conflicts, through which the author opens the topic of belonging to a cultural context, identity, decoding of illusions.