tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64160464128646870402024-03-13T00:24:43.433-07:00ZONE 2 by Alen Ilijic / Exhibition and performanceThe House of Hidden Knowledgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17096247416939799279noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416046412864687040.post-65923509895249950612017-02-25T03:47:00.001-08:002017-03-20T02:38:16.875-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">‘Zone 2’ is the fourth solo, polymedia exhibition by Alen Ilijic, conceived with paintings, prints, ready-mades, video projection and <i>spectral</i> composition which is created for the gallery space. During the closing of the exhibition Alen Ilijic performed three works: two compositions for piano, voice and electronics named ‘Red Faces’ and ‘Ongevarfen’ (Disordered)’, as well as a piece for guitar, voice and electronics named ‘Zealot’s time’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The project ‘Zone 2’ has multiple meanings: it refers to the smaller part of the city where the artist lives,</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">experiencing it in a function of narrow, isolated space, or a detention facility.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Such alienation is caused by the ingrained societal rejection of liberal visions and innovative ideas expressed in music and art. Thus, ‘Zone 2’ indicates parts of any country in which, de facto through the centuries, geniuses have carried the burden of radical movements. The focus is on the mental process of creating, a constant need for documenting new ideas, emphasizing the importance of the phenomenon of creativity. The project is also in the context of marking a ‘liberated’ space for understanding the opposed ideas and places for the realization of innovative approaches. </span><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The peculiarity of artwork by Alen Ilijic is the link between the different visibility of drawings, hidden codes and commitment to details. For example, the triptych ‘Destruction’ contains written statements of the individuals, which, in the form of graphite, bring an echo of the artist's environment, while</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">the background shows the worn walls, so it is difficult to read. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; line-height: normal;">Addressed to people who are eager to pursue knowledge, artworks require careful observation and engagement from the audience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Making visual art and composing are comparable disciplines for Ilijic, where certain elements of expression often intertwine</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">or are related in a specific manner. On the painting ‘Lost Ideas’ the main structural element is the musical score, while blue color defines the static harmonic background and structure of the composition.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Such notations are not written at random, rather are aleatoric or strictly defined parts of the artist's compositions.</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The innovation of Ilijic’s music is in the creation of its own integral parameters: harmony, melody, rhythm and, in general, forms. Also, in Ilijic’s performances there is a moment of improvisation, based on the written materials. His musical work is characterized by elements of noise, avant-garde, ethno-music of the Balkans and Israel. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; line-height: normal;">‘</span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Zone 2’ shows the attitude of the artist in relation to the wrong perception of the viewer, as a result of the increasing commercialization of art with surface qualities of form. The project brings an atypical model of the artist’s behavior: negative reactions are not in the service of questioning the ideas’ initiatives; on the contrary, they are in a function of additional incentives, as well as an </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; line-height: normal;">‘</span><span style="font-kerning: none;">evidence’ of shifting borders of contemporary standards.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;">The exhibition was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;">held at the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><a class="new" href="https://www.facebook.com/galerija.stab.beograd/?fref=ts" style="background-image: none; color: #cc0000; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" title="Gallery ŠTAB (page does not exist)">Gallery ŠTAB</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;">Belgrade, Serbia, from 14th until 19th of January, 2017. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;">Video link: </span><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK1XwHtgbck" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif;">ZONE 2</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Milica Ilijic, art historian and curator of the exhibition</span></div>
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