Ivan Faktor / EXHIBITION

Ivan Faktor
Croatia





The original features of his work bring Faktor close to the conceptual art, causing his entire opus to represent the creation of an intimate realm infused with subjective mythology. Devotion and commitment to the fiction feature, from which he draws the significant elements of his work, are particularly expressed by means of references and the use of works by Fritz Lang, giving him an almost cult status. He is the author of extremely important works, from Prvi program (Channel One) - one of the first experimental films, to the video Osijek, petak, 13.9.1991. (Osijek, Friday, 13.9.1991), the installation Slavonski nadgrobni spomenik (The Slavonian Tombstone), 1993-1995, and the film Das Lied ist Aus (2002). These works are of special importance in the category of films dealing with the topic of war and violence in Croatia at the time. During the following few years he produced some significant works, for example a whole series of installations grouped together under the title Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder and presented in Berlin and Split (1996), Vinkovci and Osijek (1997), and as far as Dubrovnik (2001) and Sao Paolo (2002). Constant questioning of the media, complexity of works within clear ideational units, modification of original installations with regard to the geographical, social and cultural context in which they are exhibited, represent only some of the most important features of Faktor's works.
Božo Majstorović

The exhibition is organized by the Gallery of Fine Arts (Galerija umjetnina) in cooperation with and as a part of the Split Film Festival / International Festival of New Film.