Case Report with Review

Case Report with Review Matej Knežević

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“Case Report with Review” // Kora Girin // Profesionalni život Mateja Kneževića dijeli se između dvije s

interese oblikuje promatranjem, bilježenjem i izvrtanjem svakodnevnice. Pretakanje tragova i derivata vla

ma koji su se oslanjali na motiv obiteljskog zajedništva dnevne sobe (Uđite, ne morate se izuvati, 2017.), ju stvari, 2019.)…

Izložba “Case Report with Review” novi je site-specific ambijent u kojem materijali i forme, točke susre Dugačkim muzejskim zidom proteže se mural – dijagram tijeka koji umjetnik gradi izolacijskom trakom i

ma iz znanosti, prenoseći u muzej oblike koje češće nalazi(mo) na stranicama znanstvene publikacije ili bo

vode do ispražnjenih kućica. Upute na spojevima dijelom su namjerno šaljive, dijelom preuzete iz znanstv

Prostornu instalaciju čine raznovrsne pregrade, labirint ready-made jedinica koje metodom “uputa izgu

prostora reminiscira dizajnerska rješenja i materijale koje nalazimo pri oblikovanju praktičnih, nužnih i če Bolnički paravani i muzejska postolja neki su od primjera.

Navigiranje informacijama i prostorom, novim značenjima koja se otkrivaju pri transferu oblika, metod onomatopejom.

Razvijanje umjetničkih interesa Mateja Kneževića, pri kojem medicinska tematika izravnije ulazi u nje

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sferu svakodnevnog. Ne želeći biti ciljano aktualan niti angažiran, Knežević kreira prostor u kojem ravnot

“Case Report with Review” // Kora Girin // The professional life of Matej Knežević is decidedly split bet meanwhile shaping his strong artistic interests through observance, recording and shapeshifting of the da

or gallery can be traced, among other, through Knežević’s ambiences relying on the motifs of family comm

rituals (Speculative Mornings, 2018), hospital waiting room and surgery theater (Some Visceral Things, 20

The “Case Report with Review” is a new site-specific environment in which materials and forms, meet

the artist’s focus. An impressive mural spans across the long museum wall – it is a flow chart the artist sk

sentation of information taken from science, Knežević transfers to the museum the forms that are more of

of an unusual graphical algorithm, caught in a network of paths leading to the empty boxes. The instructio language amplifiers remain hanging among the enclosed gaps.

The spatial installation is made up of various dividers, a labyrinth of ready-made units that at the sam

scenography of the exhibition space reminisces the design solutions and materials that we often find in de

btedly aesthetically define the interiors. Hospital separators and museum pedestals are just some of the ex

The act of navigation through information and spatial dimensions, through the new significances unco accompanied by a soundstage piece spiced with a specific onomatopoeia.

Matej Knežević’s artistic development, in which medical themes become more directly present through

transgress into the sphere of everyday life. Knežević, not pretending to become aimfully actual or otherwi the serious and the witty remains subjective for everyone. //

struke, liječničke i umjetničke. Knežević je dakle vizualni umjetnik zaposlen u bolnici, a svoje umjetničke

astite okoline u muzejsko-galerijski prostor mogli smo, između ostalog, pratiti u Kneževićevim ambijenti-

utarnje kupaoničke rituale (Spekulativna jutra, 2018.), prostor bolničke čekaonice i sale (Neke visceralne

eta uporabnog i estetskog, porozna mjesta fizičkog i simboličkog prostora ostaju u umjetnikovom fokusu. otisnutim riječima. Knežević dijagram tijeka kao sredstvo vizualnog posredovanja informacija preuzi-

olničkom zidu. Posjetitelj postaje odgonetač neobičnog grafičkog algoritma, uhvaćen u mrežu puteva koji

venog žargona, a jezični pojačivači ostaju visjeti među ograđenim prazninama.

ubljenih u prijevodu“ posjetitelje istovremeno usmjerava i sputava. Posebna scenografija izložbenog

esto u prostoru nestalnih elemenata, a opet elemenata koji nesumnjivo estetski definiraju interijere.

da i materijala u novi kontekst, popraćeno je zvukovnom kulisom začinjenom specifičnom

egov rad koincidira s trenutkom kada se bolnički markeri zbog pandemijske krize sve češće prelijevaju u

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teža između preglednog i nepreglednog i ozbiljnog i duhovitog ostaje za svakoga subjektivna. //

tween two professions, medicine and art. Knežević is therefore a visual artist employed at the hospital, ily life. The transfusion of traces and derivatives from his own environment into the space of museum

munion of the living room (Come In, You Don’t Have to Take Your Shoes Off, 2017), morning bathroom

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ting points of functional and aesthetic, as well as porous places of physical and symbolic space remain in

kilfully built with insulating tape and printed words. By using the flow diagram, a tool for visual repre-

ften found on the pages of scientific publications or on hospital walls. The visitor thus becomes a solver

ons on the joints are in partially intentionally humoresque, in part taken from scientific jargon, while the

me time guide and restrain visitors using the method of “instructions lost in translation”. The particular

esign of practical, necessary and non-permanent elements often lost in space, yet elements that undou-

xamples.

overed during the process of transfer of forms, methods and materials into a new context, is hereby

hout his work coincide with the times in which, due to pandemic crisis, hospital markers increasingly

ise engaged, creates a space in which the balance strung between the descriptive and unfathomable and

PLANNED SECONDARY IMAGING

CONTINOUS PROCEDINGS

OVER TIME

A-HA

IN SITU WITH INTENT

EVENTUALLY INTERSPERSED

OK AT REQUEST

OVERALL PALPATORY

HERE AND THERE SUBCORTICAL

SYNCHRONOUSLY TREATED

SUBSTAINTIALY SATURATED

AGAIN AND AGAIN OK

MOREOVER AND INDEED

IN CASE OF MULTIPLE SIGHTS

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Matej Knežević (Slavonski Brod, 1983.) // živi i radi u Zagrebu/lives and works in Zagreb // www.matejknezev

Publikacija je realizirana uz izložbu/This publication is realized alongside the exhibition: Matej Knežević - C and Contemporary Art, Rijeka // 5.9. – 22.9.2020.

IZLOŽBA/EXHIBITION // kustosi projekta/curators: SLAVEN TOLJ, BRANKO CEROVAC // zvuk/sound: MLAD PUBLIKACIJA/PUBLICATION // izdavač/publisher: Muzej moderne i suvremene umjetnosti, Rijeka/Museum

KORA GIRIN // prijevod/translation: MLADEN LOVRIĆ // fotografije/photography: MARKO ERCEGOVIĆ, MA Kerschoffset // listopad 2020/October 2020 MMSU // Muzej moderne i suvremene umjetnosti, Rijeka/Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka

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CASE REPORT WITH REVIEW // Muzej moderne i suvremene umjetnosti, Rijeka/Museum of Modern

DEN LOVRIĆ // tehnički postav/technical realization: MATEJ KNEŽEVIĆ, MIROSLAV ŠARIĆ

of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka // za izdavača/for publisher: SLAVEN TOLJ // tekst/text: ATEJ KNEŽEVIĆ // oblikovanje/graphic design: MATEJ KNEŽEVIĆ // tisak/printed by:

// Krešimirova 26c, 51000 Rijeka // tel. +385 51 492 611 // mmsu-rijeka@ri.t-com.hr // www.mmsu.hr

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