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post-colonial Jelena Bando / Ivan Prerad, The Other Throughout the history, the relationship between different civilisations has been marked by incomprehension and conflicts rather than by curiosity and cooperation. Relying on the concept of the Other, within the Western civilisation there is an entire field of science dealing with that relationship. To put it very simply, the Other is anyone or anything that cannot be explained through the familiar, established value system. The encounter with the Other is always preceded by a long, strenuous journey, whether a real or imaginary one. When it comes to Marco Polo's, Christopher Columbus's, James Cook's or the Seljan brothers' encounter with the Other, we know almost everything. When it comes to Jelena Bando's and Ivan Prerad's encounter with the Other, we will discover something at this exhibition. In the history of Modern art, the Other played a short, but prominent role. Around the turn of the twentieth century, the so-called primitive art of the African, Oceanian and Far Eastern peoples changed the manner in which we observe the world through the works of European artists. Whether it is the influence of Japanese prints on the works of Toulouse-Lautrec, the Gauguin's portrayal of life in the Polynesian islands or the influence of African masks on Picasso's art – e.g. on the key painting of European avant-garde "The Young Ladies of Avignon" – each time, we witness the fruitful contact of European art with the art of the so-called New World. In the age of technological globalisation and instant communication, what is the destiny of the Other? What is happening with the cultures of other and far-away peoples today? Is it possible that the Other has lost its exotic identity nowadays? Having conquered, measured, mapped and digitalised the "New World", how do we Europeans see it today? The paintings by Jelena Bando and Ivan Prerad presented in this exhibition imply that there is still some latent and creative tension between different cultures. But even more than that, maybe the paintings of these young artists suggest to us that the Other, either real or made up, is something without which the art would not make too much sense.
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drugi Jelena Bando / Ivan Prerad, Drugi Odnos između različitih civilizacija bio je kroz povijest više obilježen nerazumijevanjem i sukobima, nego znatiželjom i suradnjom. Oslanjajući se na koncept Drugog, u okviru zapadne civilizacije danas postoji cijelo jedno znanstveno polje koje se bavi tim odnosom. Krajnje jednostavno govoreći, Drugi je svaki onaj, ili sve ono što je neobjašnjivo poznatim, udomaćenim sustavom vrijednosti. Susretu s Drugim uvijek prethodi dugo, iscrpljujuće putovanje, stvarno ili imaginarno. O susretu s Drugim Marka Pola, Kristofora Kolumba, Jamesa Cooka ili braće Seljan znamo gotovo sve. O susretu s Drugim Jelene Bando i Ivana Prerada, saznat ćemo nešto na ovoj izložbi. U povijesti moderne umjetnosti Drugi je odigrao kratku, ali važnu ulogu. Negdje na prijelazu 19. u 20. stoljeće takozvana primitivna umjetnost naroda Afrike, Oceanije i Dalekog istoka promijenila je kroz radove europskih umjetnika način na koji gledamo svijet. Bilo da je riječ o utjecaju japanske grafike na radove Toulouse-Lautreca, o Gauguinovom prikazivanju života na polinezijskom otočju ili o utjecaju afričkih maski na Picassovu umjetnost – primjerice, na ključnu sliku europske avangarde "Gospođice iz Avignona" – svaki puta svjedočimo plodotvornim dodirima europske umjetnosti s umjetnošću takozvanog Novog svijeta. U doba tehnološke globalizacije i instantne komunikacije, kakva je sudbina Drugog? Što se danas događa s kulturama drugih i dalekih naroda? Je li moguće da je danas Drugi izgubio svoj egzotični identitet? Kako mi, Europljani, nakon što smo ga pokorili, izmjerili, mapirali i digitalizirali, "Novi svijet" vidimo danas? Slike Jelene Bando i Ivana Prerada predstavljene na ovoj izložbi sugeriraju nam da između različitih kultura još uvijek postoji neka latentna i kreativna napetost. Ali možda još više nam slike ovih mladih umjetnika sugeriraju da je Drugi, stvaran ili konstruiran, nešto bez čega umjetnost nema previše smisla.