NoMAD MOVIE ART 2024 FILM CLASSICS THROUGH THE EYES OF CROATIAN AUTHORS
HUiU GALLERY
10-31 July 2024
OPENING: 10 July 2024 – 7:30 p.m.
This is an exhibition of interpretations of Mediterranean film classics in digital print form, presented to Pula and Festival audience as part of the 71st Pula Film Festival by Split Nomad Gallery in cooperation with HUiU. Visitors will be able to see film posters and interpretations of classics such as Casablanca, Zorba the Greek, To Catch a Thief and many other posters by renowned Croatian designers and illustrators, including Studio Šesnić&Turković, Goran Radošević, Mate Žaja, Franka Tretinjak, and others. The exhibition also includes interpretations by students of the Department of Visual Communication Design of the Arts Academy in Split. All works will be premiered at the HUiU Gallery and available for purchase at promotional prices. Works from previous cooperations are available at www.splitnomadgallery.com. The exhibition is financially supported by Kultura Nova Foundation.
DARIJE PETKOVIĆ DAMNATIO MEMORIAE
MAKINA GALLERY
OPENING: 10 July – 9 p.m.
Over the last decade, I have been exploring the role of photography in showing social moments and urban scenery as a cultural category, recording historical memory. In. Transition for 30 years already following the breakup of Yugoslavia, Croatia is facing the negation of social values and historical revisionism. These breaks of continuity have left many gaps in the social fabric, which I try to identify in my work. My photographs are testimony of history and remembrance, emphasising the social construct of historical memory. I try to show how we treat the past and how the past shapes our present and future. My goal is to make the visitors aware of the importance of critical reflection of history and encourage them to recognise the complex relationships between past events and their contemporary reflections. I try to use photography to actively contribute to reflecting on how the past shapes our identity.
Darije Petković
CINEMANIAC > THINK FILM 2024
STÉPHAN CRASNEANSCKI
WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND – From Jean-Luc Godard’s Archive
NOVO GALLERY
12-21 July 2024.
OPENING: 12 July – 8 p.m.
CURATORS: Branka Benčić, Tanja Vrvilo
In cooperation with the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka and Film Mutations: Festival of Invisible Cinema – RECORDS (Film-counter-film)
PARTNERS: Pula Film Festival, Soundwalk Collective, Studio Naegeli
ORGANISERS: Apoteka – Prostor za suvremenu umjetnost, Udruga Metamedij
Cinemaniac Think Film at Pula Film Festival is a new space to show the appended and extended exhibition trilogy of multidisciplinary artist Stéphan Crasneanscki following the unveiling of Gordard’s boxes, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka.
The exhibition brings together a series of photographs that frame photographs of books, collages, film and video archival material from Godard’s personal archives, and the presentation of the photo-book What We Leave Behind and the sound composition and film by the same name.
The title of the book and sound composition What We Leave Behind – From the Archives of Jean-Luc Godard, follows the traces of rhizomatic spaces between the artistic-curatorial research of Stéphane Crasneanscki and his experimental Soundwalk Collective after he was introduced to the vast repository of Godard’s film century, located in Cantal in France, by Godard’s sound engineer François Musy in 2014. The endless series of cardboard boxes were classified and packed by Godard himself, without names and numbers. Crasneanscki unfolded the boxes for a photographically remedialised cinema-eye of Godardian pedagogy that theorises and terrorised with the vertigo of spatial arranging, spaces in between and superimpositions, transparencies and shadowy reflections of text, layered blending and multiple exposures, and cutting and tearing of the images found.
Stéphan Crasneanscki is a French multidisciplinary artist working in the field of music and film, books, and analogue and digital sound recordings. His collaborations include Patti Smith, Abel Ferrara, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Luc Nancy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nan Goldin, Willem Dafoe, Wim Wenders, Jean Nouvel, Isabelle Adjani, Catherine Deneuve, and Isabelle Huppert. He has exhibited at international institutions such as Opéra de Lyon, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Barbican Centre, Berghain, Centre Georges Pompidou, MUDAM, MuCEM, Museo Madre, New Museum, Palazzo Reale Milan, documenta14 in Athens and Kassel, Manifesta 12 Palermo, and elsewhere.
