press release

Sandro Dukic (born in Zagreb, 1964) is a new-media artist dealing with co-relation of media such as photography, video, computer-processing, storing, documentation and data archive with reality exposed to this process of photographing and disclosing through media. He has been preoccupied with issues of simulation, subjective and artistic experience of travelling and peculiarities of specific media since attending Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and, afterwards, Düsseldorf, where he had been taught by Nam June Paik, founder of the video art and Nan Hoover. Since the mid-1980's, he has been exhibiting on numerous individual and collective exhibitions, both in Croatia and abroad. In a monumental manner, exhibition "Archive" will synthesise and present development of the artist's work since the times of the projects "Journey around the world in 100 days" (1998) and "Realities of picture – pictures of reality" (1999) until today. Large exhibition area of the MMCA will be seized by multimedia installations and projections with authorial concept and set-up. Upon conclusion of the "Archive" project - promoted by precisely this exhibition in Rijeka – Sandro ®¢ukic will publish the book. This exhibition is accompanied by the catalogue, designed by artist, with preface written by Branko Cerovac, senior curator at the MMCA.

Branko Cerovac

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Sandro Dukic