Radovič Bojan
Ready Made Still Lifes
Založba: Hiša fotografije / ArtZine Edition
Cena: 18,00 €
Zine: 44 strani / pages
Urednik / Editor: Bojan Radovič
Esej / Essay: Iztok Hotko
Ročno oštevilčena edicija 50 / Limited edition of 50
Fotografije iz serije Ready Made Still Lifes so nastale v Brooklynu. Avtor je motive našel dobesedno na ulici oziroma na stanovanjskih hišah njujorškega (pred)mestnega okolja. Fotografirane zgradbe druži banalno dejstvo, da so na njihovih okenskih policah kot dekorativni element postavljeni plastični cvetlični aranžmaji.
Cikel je sestavljen iz več parov fotografij, postavljenih v kontrastno jukstapozicijo, od katerih manjša v paru, suho deskriptivna fotografija, v preprosti snapshot tehniki, predstavlja vsakdanje ulične scene s stanovanjskimi hišami oziroma različnimi prodajalnami, druga pa prikazuje izrez istega motiva, povečavo detajla umetnih rož na okenskih policah, tihožitje, ki kljub dejstvu, da je tudi to posneto s preprosto kompaktno kamero v stilu ljubiteljske fotografije, deluje oblikovno stilizirano, piktorialno, dekorativno, studijsko sfabricirano.
Odlomek iz eseja Ready Made Still Lifes Iztoka Hotko
The photographs from the series Ready Made Still Lifes were made in Brooklyn. The author took the motifs literally from the street or residential buildings of the New York (sub)urban area. The depicted buildings share a banal fact: they all have plastic flower arrangements functioning as a decorative element on their windowsills.
The series is composed of many pairs of photographs, placed in contrasting juxtaposition. The smallest photograph of each pair, a drily descriptive photograph made in the simple snapshot technique, represents scenes from daily street life with residential buildings or various shops, while the other is a cut-out of that same motif, a close-up of the detail of artificial flowers on windowsills, still life that, despite being shot with a simple compact camera in the style of the amateur photography, functions as formally stylized, pictorial, decorative, studio-produced.
From the essay Ready Made Still Lifes by Iztok Hotko