Mladen Stilinović, AN ARTIST WHO CANNOT SPEAK ENGLISH IS NO ARTIST, 1992. Courtesy of the artist.
Mladen Stilinović
Zero for Conduct: A retrospective
30 November 2012 – 14 February 2013
at Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Mladen Stilinović (Belgrade, 1947) belongs to the generation of Croatian artists that began their careers in art in the early 1970, outside and against the institutions of art and of the state. Stilinović made his first art works in the form of GEFF-style experimental film. Then, especially within the Group of Six Authors, he realized his first works of conceptual nature. His activities were aimed at probing the social reality – first of all, its political dimension. In the social fabric, he exposes the mechanisms of power, but also the positions of powerlessness. He consistently delves into the phenomenon of language as a means of political, as well as of artistic manipulation. During several decades, in numerous actions, exhibitions and books he authored, Stilinović confirmed the position of the artist as a corrective agent in a society that surrounds him. Stilinović provokes, defies value systems and systems of power; he mocks them and makes a parody of them. [read the full text here]
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