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- Siniša Labrovic is currently one of the most respected and known artists in Croatia.00:00:00.000
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- Despite the fact that he is not graduated artist, but a teacher of Croat language and literature.00:00:11.531
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- So he got into the artistic work later and gradually.00:00:17.152
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- He is perceived by experts and public as socially involved performer,00:00:21.582
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- and in his projects he touches the wide range of themes related to today´s society,00:00:27.102
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- such as political and social climate in Croatia, very often he deals with massmedia issue,00:00:35.234
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- and its impact on views and life of ordinary people.00:00:43.373
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- And the most distinct theme is the position of artist in today´s society.00:00:49.456
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- Talking about the exhibition there are mainly video performances such as00:00:55.232
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- work Untitled (The Flame) or Vatra in Croat or other work, his videos are simple00:01:08.253
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- regarding formal language and stylistics in Labrovic work, everything is pure and simple,00:01:20.476
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- without post-production inputs into the final artistic work or video performance.00:01:26.767
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- The main tool is Labrovic body and it becomes the artwork itself at the same time,00:01:36.783
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- the body is medium he works with and at the same time the artwork.00:01:45.949
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- Very often we may see in his work drastic interventions into his body,00:01:54.448
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- as in the project Smiley he cut the form of a smile on his face with a razor blade.00:02:01.803
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- What is important - there is an absurd black humour in all his artwork.00:02:10.581
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- Among other artworks exposed on the exhibition are installations and objects,00:02:25.363
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- with minimalistic language of simplicity, and humour.00:02:30.029
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- Siniša Labrovic prepared a special project for the exhibition in Bratislava in AMT_project,00:02:45.617
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- realized in Bratislava - video performance titled Just Protest was made in front of00:02:49.833
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- presidential palace in Bratislava where he comments all the protests happening00:02:58.734
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- in the world lastly against anything with no result, it comments absurd efforts,00:03:12.667
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- on the other hand it also expresses the sadness about not having any positive feedback.00:03:30.442