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Igor Grubić

East Side Story

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2010.04.19
Likovni salon Celje, 16. April- 16. May 2010

The Croatian artist Igor Grubić follows the path of activist art. In his work he reacts to events, states and process in society with sensitivity. In doing so he often adapts direct activist strategies, for the majority of his projects first take place in the streets and are only later placed within a gallery. His artistic activism is extremely personal and skilfully moves on the border between political and poetical. The project 366 rituals of freeing, which is comprised from a series of micro-political actions and interventions that were performed by the artist every day in 2008 is one of his most resonating artistic actions. In this action Grubić adopted the role of a lonely revolutionary, who through constant training of his own disobedience spreads the virus of disobedience also to the other citizens and in this way tries to awaken them from their political passivity and consumerist lethargy. These daily rituals were realised in a scope ranging from utterly personal (the artist tattooed the word disobedient on his wrist) to true guerrilla undertakings such as for instance the intervention with the fountain in front of the Croatian National Bank in Zagreb, in which he painted the water bloody red on the day the American president George Bush visited Zagreb, or the multiple night-time 'beautifications