Antonio Živkovič
Reflection of Memory
In work of Antonio Živkovič memory assumes the existence of the past; memory is present. The present is fiction, an abstract element. The future is indiscernible, thus unreal. Representation and reflection assume contact with the real. It is contemplation, an attitude, knowledge. He suggests a reflection of memory bits to us. His photographs are “broken” memories, pieces and elements of a past that no longer exists, a past that belongs to the artist’s and collective memory. In the series Reflection of a Memory he created homage to industrial heritage of his hometown that has no place in the changed circumstances of post-industrial economy. The representation retains only the well-defined shapes, thus the memory is a sum of events stored in the subconscious. The photographs are a sort of soul back drive, a longing for return, a detachment from the present. All the events of the memory, its reflections, occur not for a single time, but repeat themselves forever. They contain their own organic feature, which is irreversibility. The fulfilled event, materialized, is always an obtained, the opposite of the obtaining. The emotion of the artist precedes the representation of the photographed object.
Reflection of the Memory, 2001
40 x 50 cm, silver gelatin print
Edition: 6
Price: 550€
