WORKS
- O Freunde, nicht diese Töne…
- The De Bruin-Heijns
- Revisiting the 1st m²
- Simsalabim
- 1981 – 1987
- From Death Till Birth
- I am that always angry child…
- No Means No
- Duty of Memory Beyond Splendour of Oblivion
- A Short Story About the Beginning of the Word
- Das Buch
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On July 13th 2010 Ištvan Išt Huzjan opened an exhibition at Mala Galerija, Modern Gallery Ljubljana, Slovenia, entitled “Simsalabim”. The theme of the show was distribution of an artwork on a national level or how to distribute a gift, equally amongst all the citizens.
Huzjan’s artwork consisted out of 100 plaster copies of a volcanic rock, he brought back from Iceland as a souvenir, placed on 10 pedestal tables, the artist designed and manufactured himself.
Instead of exhibiting the plaster copies on the tables in the gallery, the artist decided to put them in a public space thus creating a broader public context. Prior to the opening, in order to achieve the goal of such a big scale distribution, Huzjan placed the plaster copies in a safety deposit box in one of the banks owned by the Slovenian government and documented the happening as an article in one of Slovenian’s leading newspapers owned by the Slovenian government.
The gallery was left with 10 empty pedestal tables as a centre for communicating the distribution. In the gallery next to the tables the artist exhibited the “Photocopy book” made out of Xerox photocopies of the plaster copy made on the principle: photocopy – photocopy of a photocopy – photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy… until the plaster copy becomes an abstract image.
For the purpose of communication, for the exhibition together with the curator Bojana Piškur, the artist created a reader – catalogue that included a conversation between curator and artist and theoretical evaluation of the work by Marko Jenko (writer – critic at the Modern Gallery Ljubljana).
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