ANTUN MOTIKA – PROTO-COMICS AND CARICATURES
THURSDAY, 3 DECEMBER 2015, 21:00, PULA CIVIC GALLERY
On the first day of the book fair, the exhibition Antun Motika – Proto-comic Book and Caricatures, curated by the Fair to the idea of Andrea Matošević, PhD, in association with the City of Pula Collection of Art, will be inagurated. This exhibition will display Antun Motika’s early and untypical works, in which he, as a student at the Pazin Gymnasium, focused on political caricature and book illustration, the true predecessors to the comic book we know today. His illustrated stories Crvena brada and Put na mjesec, as a coherent series, are in a certain way a comic adaptation of Jules Verne long before his first known comic adaptations. Selected photographs of illustrations from his books, as well as photographs from his notebook Moje karikature aim to connect Antun Motika at this exhibition with one of the book fair focal points – comic book – but also with the central theme and the city of Pula. Exhibition curated by Emina Popović and Andrea Matošević.
A5
SATURDAY, 5 DECEMBER 2015, 21:00, GALLERY OF THE SERBIAN CULTURAL CENTRE IN ISTRIA
The exhibition Authors Five will present young artists from Croatia and the region, painters who are also comic book or street artists. The exhibition includes: young but already acclaimed Ivana Pipal, Slovenian artist duo Beli sladoled (Miha Perne and Leon Zuodar), Serbian comic book author Boris Stanić, and Zagreb-based street artist Miron Milić. Their common expression is specific, imbued with a fresh energy and urban, modern style which expels all censorship and feeds on force and transparency of internal expression.
Slavimir Stojanović: The Books I Never Wrote
THURSDAY, 10 DECEMBER 2015, 21:00, CVAJNER GALLERY
As part of the Belgrade Reads programme, this year’s regional focus at the Book Fair(y), at the Cvajner Gallery we will be reading books that do not exist. A renowned graphic designer from Belgrade, visual artist and founder of the lifestyle brand Futro, Slavimir Stojanović, will display an exhibition of covers of unwritten books which he has been in the last years publishing daily on social networks.
As the very name tell us, The Books I Never Wrote is an exhibition containing imaginary book titles in which the author plays with wit, irony and self-irony and in the simplest possible way, i.e. with the use of minimal visual means, creates a design encompassing all the complexity of the presented idea and the world we live in, as symbolised by his creative motto Complicate Simply.
INTERMUNDIA
SATURDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2015, 21:00, TEMPLE OF AUGUSTUS
Intermundia, a curatorial research project, is based on the research of changing landscapes of the boundaries of trans and intra-European migrations. The project showcases Lampedusa as a metonymy of a present-day ‘detention centre’ at the entrance to Fortress Europe, and is using evocative sound and light installation and literarily presented research to induce a complex understanding of the world or, better said, alternative worlds surrounding us. The estrangement effect of the project inspires the observer to react instantly, being immersed in a fight to survival.
The exhibition is organised in association with the Archaeological Museum of Istria and Istrian Architects Society.
