[artinfo] Exhibition_Z. DUMANIC_Rijeka, Cro

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Exhibition

ZLATAN DUMANIC

It is Forbidden to Pinch the Artist 

11 April - 29 April, 2007

MMSU, Mali salon, Rijeka, Croatia

 

 

The exhibition It is Forbidden to Pinch the Artist  was conceived and selected by Zlatan Dumanić as a compilation of his performances between 2002 and 2006...

 

Dumanić is a natural born performer. A scene and/or any space which he designates as such, are his natural habitat.  He is a modern version of that peculiar personality comprising notorious Split characters. Starting with a cavalier and a wooer of priapic persistence, to a bon-vivant and a dandy, down to an anarchist, an exhibitionist and a buffoon, Dumanić profoundly embodies the millennium memory of his city within an independent and open minded individual. And he never presents it in extremes and excesses, but always within civilized measures of urban code, since - let us remind ourselves on his words- the performance is nothing but art of conduct. This exuberant psychological controversy gets its vertical through strongly expressed ethos that is never caused externally, but is initiated solely by an interior impulse, which eventually led to equation of Dumanić's existence with his art vocation. On the scene, he is accompanied by a parade of his kids, girlfriends, wives and mistresses; a congregation of all those who make up a warm core of his Mediterranean ductus and a firm standing ground wherefrom he can generate unlimited freedom of his observations. 

Branko Franceschi 



 

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