Artiste Anonyme / Anonymous Conceptual Artist / Umjetnik u krizi: Goran Trbuljak’s Names and Namelessness

Abstract

of the status of the figure of the artist and the institution of the exhibition. This article focuses on the centrality of various forms of self-concealment, primarily anonymity and the use of pseudonyms, in Trbuljak’s art. I also discuss what I refer to as the involuntary obfuscation that has come through Trbuljak’s association with conceptual art and institutional critique, labels that have tended to block rather than advance the discussion of his practice. I urge new paths to interpretation through considerations of Trbuljak’s interest in the street, walking, the body, and his insistence on a position liminality, never quite committing himself to one particular role, ideology or space. I refer

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Deirdre Madelaine Smith

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  • EP ID EP575268
  • DOI 10.24917/20813325.13.3
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Deirdre Madelaine Smith (2018). Artiste Anonyme / Anonymous Conceptual Artist / Umjetnik u krizi: Goran Trbuljak’s Names and Namelessness. Annales Universitatis Pedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de Arte et Educatione, 0(264), 29-45. https://www.europub.co.uk/articles/-A-575268