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Thanks a lot for your comment about my work and positive thoughts that you sent me.
I have just started to explore your site and it seems to me that there area lot good things to see!
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Fabulous, provocative work. Some of the most accomplished of its sort that I've seen. And huge! I can only imagine what your studio must look like.
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You are welcome!
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Thanks for your comment, I like your tracks.
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- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Conceptual, Digital, Painting, Performance, Video
- About my artwork
- In my works I am making a research into the conscious about changing environment and perception using “new media”. It is known that, in the early stage of historical avant-garde, this cognition urged Cubists and Dadaists to include segments of that worthy new world in their “pictorial field”: newspapers, photographs, and then “movies”, etc. That is how «from the beginning» and at the back of new media are mixed and broken up, « re-established» into old media, while older is building bridges, different crossings and short-cuts between idiom of the painting and newly risen circumstances. That is how I come to different symbols which I, sometimes completely intuitively compose into the concept of new meaning, often ironical when it comes to contemporary methods of producing desires in today’s man. I am interested in psychology and sociology, transition of symbol into the symptom. I find my inspiration in different magazines for women, teenagers and businessmen... Search and turning over the pages of these magazines (how to preserve health, fitness and dream shopping, seducing in three steps and similar) became a kind of obsession to me. I am using photos from magazines which belong to the sphere of precise and calculated marketing and fashion design. I am trying to reveal a way of using art and fashion as means to impose certain meanings, by tearing and re-composing, I am giving back the meaning to “other side”, I get back to the “what is behind”. Here, I stumble upon the unconscious, lyrical, exciting, but again «campy», ironically weird. My inspiration is also Dada, Surrealism, Pop, Collages, Mixed media as well as Transitional capitalism, schizophrenia (tearing-cutting, the gap between desires and possibilities). Through the magazines, I observe the society of spectacle and I compare it with the society in which I find myself and live in. Comparing every day’s comic as well as tragic sensational news, and at the same time looking at «the world from popular magazines» I come to the fact that there isn’t a wicked reality which is not in advance (a priori) split, thrown and happily intervened with media («mediated») and attractively placed as «good» in a marketing manner as well as that turbulent, hyperactive, hyper productive «Kitsch» or Trash!
By playing with the visual material and possible/impossible «meanings», the multi-layered composition is folded from extreme absurd elements which I absorb from the visual surrounding. The method of tearing and re-composing of the picture-message (anecdote) gives me a seductive, surprised possibility of discovery, imagination, to distinguish different fantasies which produce insane «craving machines» in the heads of the attracted observers ( drawn in a contemporary game which shows the picture in the function of creating the desire-craving).
The anecdote, which I look for, and that is shown through picture, is close to the atmosphere of fantastic horror or weird drama and mainly inspired by domination of great number of pictures. In that way I am trying to build an event of strong contrast between trickery and deliberation against stupidity, clumsiness and confusion. The smooth, carefully designed and demonstrative structure of fashion photography or poster is exchanged with a torn, glued and by itself displaced interpretation.
The advertising world today possesses a strong illusion which overpowers everyday reality.
The art enables a position to be a tailor of your own story inside imposed criteria of value. The aim, which is longed for, is not the changing of the world, but its acceptance and re-creation.
It is known that the post-modern methodology makes a summary of the characteristic factors: verbosity, fantasy, mythology, «primitive» associated with the popular and the urban.
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- DESCRIPTION COMPLETE DU PROJET
Dans mes oeuvres, j'explore la perception consciente du changement de l'environnement et la perception utilisant un "nouveau média". Nous savons que, dans le premier stade du mouvement avant-gardiste, cette cognition a poussé les Cubistes et les Dadaïstes à inclure des segments de ce remarquable nouveau monde dans leur "champ pictural": journaux, photographies et ensuite "films", etc... Voilà comment, "depuis le début" et à l'arrière des nouveaux médias sont mélangés et réduis, "ré-établis" en médias anciens tandis que les anciens construisent des ponts, des intersections différentes, des raccourcis entre les idiomes, les peintures et les circonstances nouvellement apparues. Voila comment j'arrive à différents symboles que je compose de façon complètement intuitive dans le concept d'un nouveau sens, souvent ironique quand il s'agit de méthodes contemporaines de production des désirs de l'homme d'aujourd'hui. Je suis intéressée par la psychologie et la sociologie, la transition du symbole en symptôme. Je trouve mon inspiration dans les journaux destinés aux femmes, aux hommes d'affaires et aux adolescents. La recherche et la réforme de ces magazines (comment rester en bonne santé, en forme, le shopping idéal, la séduction en trois étapes et assimilés) sont devenues des obsessions pour moi.
J'utilise des photos extraites de magazines qui appartiennent à la sphère du marketing précis et calculé et de la mode. J'essaye de révéler une manière d'utiliser l'art et la mode comme des moyens pour imposer certaines significations, en détruisant et en recomposant, je rends son sens à "l'autre coté". Je retourne à "ce qui est derrière". Ici, je bute sur l'inconscient, lyrique, stimulant mais en même temps, "campy", ironiquement bizarre. Mon inspiration vient également de Dada, Surréalisme, Pop, Collages, Mélange de médias et du Capitalisme transitionnel, Schizophrénie (l'écart entre le désir et la possibilité). Au travers des magazines, j'observe la société du spectacle et je la compare à la société dans laquelle je me trouve et dans laquelle je vis. En comparant les nouvelles sensationnelles, comiques ou tragiques, de chaque jour et en même temps en observant le "monde vu par les magazines populaires". J'arrive à la conclusion, qu'il n'y a pas de réalité immorale qui ne soit pas à priori divisée, jetée, et joyeusement entrelacée par les médias ("médiatisée"), placée de façon attractive et présentée comme "bonne" dans une vision marketing ainsi que turbulente, hyper-active, hyper-productive "Kitsch" ou "Trash".
En jouant avec le matériel visuel et les "significations" possible/impossible, la composition multi-couches est composée d'éléments d'absurdité extrême que j'extrais de l'environnement visuel. La méthode de destruction et re-composition de la photo-message (anecdote) me procure une séduisante possibilité de découverte, d'imagination, une distinction de différents fantasmes qui produisent des "machines passionnantes" dans l'esprit des observateurs (attirés dans le jeu contemporain qui montre l'image dans la fonction créatrice du désir-passion).
L'anecdote, que je recherche et qui est exposée par des images, est proche de l'atmosphère d'horreur fantastique ou de réalité bizarre, principalement inspirée par la domination d'un grand nombre d'images. De cette façon, j'essaye de construire un événement fortement contrasté entre la tromperie et contre la bêtise, la maladresse et la confusion. J'échange des structures photographiques de mode, lisses et projetées de façon méticuleuse, avec des interprétations tiraillées, engluées et par elles-même déplacées.
Le monde de la publicité possède aujourd'hui une illusion forte qui supplante la réalité quotidienne.
L'art permet à une position d'être le tailleur de votre propre histoire à l'intérieur de critères de valeurs imposés. Le but recherché n'est pas un changement du monde mais son acceptation et sa re-création.
Il est connu que la méthodologie post-moderne résume les facteurs caractéristiques: verbosité, imagination, mythologie, une "primitive" associée avec le populaire et l'urbain.
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Ratka Lugumerski
Video from exibition "Anecdote amoureuse" Night at museum 17.May 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/user/projekatuho
http://www.subotica.info/eventview.php?event_id=23275&subsite=kultura
http://www.subotica.info/eventview.php?event_id=23295&subsite=kultura
Interview on le blog art deco (13-03-2010):
http://blogartdeco.fr/ratka-lugumerski-un-regarde-de-lest-sur-vos-vies-a-louest-1528
http://www.youtube.com/user/projekatuho
http://www.subotica.info/eventview.php?event_id=23275&subsite=kultura
http://www.subotica.info/eventview.php?event_id=23295&subsite=kultura
Interview on le blog art deco (13-03-2010):
http://blogartdeco.fr/ratka-lugumerski-un-regarde-de-lest-sur-vos-vies-a-louest-1528
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Posted on March 17, 2010 at 10:30am — 1 Comment
JCI creative workshop "What do You Think"
Photos:
http://www.subotica.info/eventview.php?event_id=24081
JCI Creative Workshop "What do you think" - "Frog farm", Palic 21 september
This workshop was held on the occasion of the Danube Conference,
organized by the Association of Young JCI Subotica, Serbia on 19-21
September. Participants, with the help of parts from magazines,
created their own compositions, the basis was symbol of this… Continue
Posted on September 21, 2008 at 2:30pm
http://www.subotica.info/eventview.php?event_id=23295&subsite=kultura
PROJEKATUHO SPLIT HRVATSKA - exhibition in Split, Croatia Projectear 16.07.2008
http://www.subotica.info/eventview.php?event_id=23295&subsite=kultura
BASIC CONCEPT OF THE STORY: THE EAR
Once, an ear lost its head.
The entity was hopelessly lost behind.
There was a fried brain too.
The ear complained for the lost head in the problem of art.
The fried brain showed silver can.
The ear took it and a sparkle started to write: AISNPAIS.
Silence… Continue
http://www.subotica.info/eventview.php?event_id=23295&subsite=kultura
BASIC CONCEPT OF THE STORY: THE EAR
Once, an ear lost its head.
The entity was hopelessly lost behind.
There was a fried brain too.
The ear complained for the lost head in the problem of art.
The fried brain showed silver can.
The ear took it and a sparkle started to write: AISNPAIS.
Silence… Continue
Posted on July 29, 2008 at 10:30pm — 2 Comments
Comment Wall (51 comments)
- At 10:08pm on February 15, 2011,
dangerous ideas said…
- Fabulous, provocative work. Some of the most accomplished of its sort that I've seen. And huge! I can only imagine what your studio must look like.
- At 6:28pm on November 7, 2010,
Margret Schopka said…
- wonderful cabinet absurd.
- At 11:55pm on October 10, 2010,
Terry said… - Thanks for adding yourself to my friend list. You're the latest and greatest. Love your work.
- At 8:19pm on October 4, 2010,
jon thwaites said… - thanks for the comment love your work
- At 12:06am on October 4, 2010,
Detlev Foth said… - Hi Ratka,
thanks for the obama commet, it is exactely like your wrote!
Yor collages are wonderful, keep on with your good work!!
All the best!!
Detlev
- At 5:35am on October 3, 2010,
N.S.VALLUVAN said…
- TRANSCENDENTOGRAPH
- At 3:57pm on July 9, 2010,
VIANNEY HANRIOT said…
- At 10:29am on February 3, 2010,
PETIT DELOR said… 
Merci,
d'interieur et d'exterieur
xxx
.............
- At 7:29pm on January 23, 2010,
Conrad Bo said… - Thank you for your comment. You are a very good artist.
- At 4:32am on December 2, 2009,
mafonso 1948 said… - Grazie. Buon Natale
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