SANDA ČRNELČ
EXPERIMENT ON HOW MUCH MY HANDS CAN TAKE / EXPERIMENT ON HOW MUCH DAMAGE A BRICK CAN MAKE
Karas Gallery
4. – 18.4.2023.

On Tuesday, 4.4.2023. Sanda Črnelč opens her solo exhibition entitled Experiment on How Much My Hands Can Take / Experiment on How Much Damage a Brick Can Make, at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).

In her foreword, Marta Radman emphasizes:

“By incorporating her own experience of living within an atypical geopolitical and sociological reality of the Chinese communist regime, the artist raises possibilities of questioning a broader discourse of this mutually exclusive and paradoxical system. The insistence on traditional values is associated with a concept of pressure that suffocates us when we are constantly faced with impositions. To recreate such psychological pressure, Črnelč puts a concrete physical pressure on designated places throughout the gallery. By choosing bricks, which is one of the oldest building materials beside wood and stone, but also the first that was created by man, the artist uses literal meaning to represent the traditionality defining the identity of the community. She does not explore the possibilities of the space, but her own possibilities to faithfully present the complexity of the relationships of institutions intended for development and presentation of art with art itself. In this process, the brick represents one of such institutions, and the artist represents art.”

PREFACE

Biography:

Sanda Črnelč (b. 1997, Zagreb) is a second-year student at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, Art Education Department, in the class of assistant professor Marko Tadić. Since 2018 Črnelč has presented her work in solo and group exhibitions in and outside Croatia (Experimental Self-Portrait, VN Gallery, Zagreb, 2022; Gentle Gallery, Autumn Exhibition of ULUS – Cvijeta Zuzorić Pavilion, Belgrade, 2022; Matrices: Information, SC Gallery, Zagreb, 2022; Ground Zero: Ideal place, LEX ART, Zagreb, 2022; VGA 03, Knifer Gallery, Osijek, 2021; Undecidable Matters, Gallery 8, Hangzhou, 2020; Integrity, Small Gallery OF POU, Vrbovec 2019; Garden and Other Beasts, Garaža Kamba, Zagreb, 2018, etc.) In her work, Črnelč uses mixed multimedia techniques where she puts the relationship between the artist and the object into conflict, with the aim of questioning the concept of mutual intolerance within a space.

The exhibition will be open during the period from 14.4. to 18.4.2023.

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The Karas Art Hub platform was designed for the purpose of developing different approaches to the presentation, experience and processing of works of art displayed to the public in Zagreb’s Karas Gallery, which are presented to the public with digital content on the gallery’s web platform, including 360° shots of installations and video miniatures.

http://karasarthub.eu

Organizer: HDLU

With the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb