Ogni poesia e una petizione, ogni petizione e una poesia (2016)

Exhibition of Iva Kuzmanović and Marko Vojnić "Ogni poesia è una petizione / ogni petizione è una poesia" Living room Gallery Community center Rojc, Pula

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An indigenous trace of rebellion

The exhibition thematizes the life of graffiti in the immediate accidental or intentional reading of it on the spot. The authors decided to photograph and document the graffiti and thus, through the medium of photography, present the graffiti in the gallery space and give them the legitimacy of a work of art.

The basic features of textual graffiti are speed of creation, anonymity, illegality, actuality, concise form and short duration. They are characterized by simplicity and communicativeness, and often by catharsis. In graffiti, everything teems with sparkle, swagger, acerbic humor, self-praise, mockery.

Graffiti writings have been recorded in many ancient cultures, in the prehistoric times of the caves of Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain ... modern graffiti originated in America in Philadelphia in the 1960s. In the following decade, New York became the world headquarters of graffiti activity, and the source of hip-hop culture. From America they gradually spread to most cities around the world.

Newer Croatian graffiti appeared after the Second World War, they were political slogans and ideological slogans such as "Death to fascism, freedom to the people" in Raša, Labin, etc., while contemporary graffiti appeared in the 1980s in Zagreb, and then in larger Croatian cities. They were modeled after Western European and American graffiti. Initially, they were considered urban vandalism because they were written in public spaces, secretly, without permission. Later, some cities legalized certain areas for graffiti activity, which sometimes grows into the so-called street art. In this way, murals are created - large wall drawings. Authors of graffiti (graffitoskriberi, graffiti artists) are most often young men, anonymous adolescents or groups of adolescents in urban areas. They want to leave their indigenous mark of rebellion in the hopeless concrete gray of the city. Consumers of graffiti (consumers, recipients) are, accidentally or intentionally, passers-by who read them as a "showcase of subculture".

The graffiti from the series Ogni poesia e una petizione / ogni petizione e una poesia were created during the last year and this year. On them, "consumers or recipients" can read poetry by Giuseppe Ungaretti, Samuel Beckett, John Cage, Jules Renard, Walt Whitman and two quotes by Bernardo Bertolucci and Antonio Gramsci. The author's idea was to offer classics of contemporary thought and art in the form of graffiti.

Source: https://kulturpunkt.hr/najava/izlozba/autohtoni-trag-pobune/