THE EDITOR’S LETTER
editor's note What you have before your eyes is the first English edition of the awesomest art magazine from Croatia. In this number we have presented the best of what contemporary art had to offer in the last year and a half. Our mission is to present artists from Croatia or those that bring their exhibitions to Croatia to the entire World. In time we have noticed that people dislike visiting exhibitions and performances because they are too often presented in a serious and very distancing way. That’s why everything we write will not only inform you, but more importantly and hopefully amuse you. Being an artist is especially fun in Croatia, if you don’t like eating or buying new clothes. Sometimes prominent art societies give you the opportunity to present your work to the public, but by the time that happens you probably are too anorexic to care. National media also appreciates artists: when they are naked or involved in criminal acts like smuggling sausages from Germany in paintings or large quantities of red color in ketchup bottles. By this time you might ask yourself: why the English edition? Why should I even care about artists from some country I never even heard of, and is probably bordering with Iraq? People around the world complimented our design and general visual awesomeness™ of the JAM magazine, but they also wanted to be able to understand the articles accompanying those amazingly cropped images. Also, we have covered some non-Croatian-speaking artists, who were curious if we had glorified or defamed them. (Un)fortunately for them, now they know. You should make a healthy habit of following our magazine because by now you have surely met at least one Croat, and he was most probably and artist or more likely a con artist. ENJOY JAM
SEPTEMBER 2011
JAM #18
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