Competition

ULUPUH

the Croatian Association of Artists of the Applied Arts

announces its Competition for the submission of works for

 

the 52nd Zagreb Salon

of Applied Art and Design

2017

 

The In/Applicability of Applied Art

 

 

 

Time to be held:

October 5 to October 28, 2017

 

Venues: Zagreb/

Mimara Museum (Rooseveltov trg 5)

School of Applied Art and Design, the Izidor

Kršnjavi Exhibition Room (Trg Maršala Tita 11)

F22 (ADU Hall, Frankopanska 22)

ULUPUH Gallery (Tkalčićeva 14)

other public spaces

 

Deadline for submission:

Friday, August 25, 2017

 

Deadline for submission extended:

Saturday, October 2, 2017

Salon

Zagreb Salon, founded in 1964 by the Assembly of the City of Zagreb, is a renowned national exhibition of recent artworks, an annual review of contemporary artistic creativity devoted alternatingly to the visual arts, to architecture and town planning, and the applied arts and design.

 

The central theme of this year’s salon, devoted to applied arts and design, is “The in/applicability of applied art”.

 

Alongside the central thematic exhibition and two ancillary thematic exhibitions, at the 52nd  Zagreb Salon a number of associated events will be put on.

Theme

The In/Applicability of Applied Art

 

 

 

 

“The complex interrelations between the systematisation of human activities and the overcoming of this process are most clearly manifested in the field of art, particularly in the applied arts. From some reason – well founded and inherently justified, not for the mere sake of theoretical classification and organisational arbitrariness – the borders among disciplines still exist, although quite a large number of artists persistently and indeed very successfully do transgress them. It is not just about a dialogue between tradition and the new (sometimes to the degree at which tradition is quite simply erased and negated), but about an essential constructive property of contemporary art practice and production. This is the property formulated in the total privileging of concept, of the authorial intention. In consequence, the means with which a certain concept is given expression become much less important and, which logically derives from this kind of situation, the distinction that starts off from technique, from the pertaining materials, a settled discipline, has become superfluous, speaking strictly, pointless.

 

Divisions have always been arbitrary of course, but to the extent that functionality justifies them, there is no problem in their existence. Naturally graphic and product design have their own particular niches that break the bounds with their originality, getting outside of the regular boxes. On the other hand, photography, video, performance are the disciplines that most simply abolish the borders between visual (in earlier terminology fine and if we trust to the translations, beautiful) and applied arts. Does this aspect bring in some difference, and if so, of what kind?

 

Does applicability diminish the artistic component of applied art? The black square of Kasimir Malevich appeared for the first time in 1913, as part of a set design, actually, as a design on the curtain of the stage in the Futurist opera Victory over the Sun. But it was only when it was a Picture that it won planetary notoriety and fame. “Picture” gave it a mysteriousness that otherwise, while only an applied object, it did not have.

 

If we turn to the mythic past we can with good reason decide that Icarus used one of the first specially designed products. Daedalus, that most skilled of artisans and artists (naturally, such a division did not then exist) made wings that according to what they were used for belonged to applied art, but if we accept that they were a work of creative genius, we could imagine them as superlative sculpture as well. In fact, our understanding of art, mediated by the idea of the museum (as shown by André Malraux in his Imaginary Museum) will elevate them to a status that deprives them of their function. If they existed, and if they had been preserved, where would these mythic wings belong? Would Daedalus and Malevich today submit them to the Zagreb Salon, as organised either by HDLU or by ULUPUH (the fine and applied arts organisations respectively)?  Such dichotomies belong among false dilemmas, although that does not make them any less real. They derive from the distinctions of our culture that (another characteristic immanent to the contemporary age) at the same time attempts to overcome them.

 

We call upon artists in their work and own selection who apply to the 52nd Zagreb Salon to take into consideration, as far as they are able, the issue of the relations between the applicable and the autotelic (which also absolutely has its own raison d’être). Instead of set, seemingly, and in fact common places that thematise space, time, energy and so on, we invite them to pay attention to that form of the comprehension of the social purposefulness of their own production. After all, the quality criterion – this elusive and yet very essential ingredient, that subtle definition to which we always return – will anyway be the determining factor (not adherence to the set theme) for being placed in the exhibition selection.

 

Along with the 52nd Zagreb Salon there is a concrete task: to devise a way of revitalising the complex of the Jakovlje Palace: first of all, its grounds, the space of which provides a wide range of opportunities, from landscape design to projects that at the current moment we have no inkling of. Your ideas are the first step to their realisation.”

 

Curator and author of the concept: Nikola Albaneže

Entry rules

Works can be submitted to the competition for the following:

 

∙ the central thematic exhibition, The In/Applicability of  Applied Art, in the premises of the Mimara Museum, Rooseveltov trg 5 and in the exhibition salon of the Izidor Kršnjavi School of  Applied Art and Design, Trg Maršala Tita 11

 

∙ the ancillary thematic exhibition, The Jakovlje Assignment, which will be held in the premises of the ULUPUH Gallery, Tkalčićeva 14, Zagreb

 

∙ ancillary thematic events, The ZS Laboratory (fashion events, performances, workshops) in room F22, Rooms of the ADU [Academy of Dramatic Art], Frankopanska 22, Zagreb

 

Works can be in any artistic medium at all. Independently of the themes, these are exhibitions of applied art and design, and so all high-quality works from this area are implied.

 

 

 

 

The executive organiser of the 52nd Zagreb Salon is the Croatian Association of Artists of the Applied Arts – ULUPUH.

 

The director of the 52nd Zagreb Salon is Ivana Bakal, president of ULUPUH.

 

All authors and groups of authors from the Republic of Croatia and also those who are connected by their work to Croatia, authors from abroad whose work complies with the concept or who have been invited by the curator or the Organising Committee have the right to take part in the 52nd Zagreb Salon.

 

Each author and each group of authors has the right to submit at most three (3) works with which to take part in all the exhibitions of the Salon. Works that were produced in the period from 2014 to 2017 may be submitted.

 

The exhibition will put on show works of selected and works of invited authors. The selection of works will be made by the Curator and the Panel of Adjudicators of the 52nd Zagreb Salon.

 

Works are to be submitted online only, via the Submission Form with the appropriate accompanying documentation (as specified in the Submission Form).

 

There is a participation fee of 150 kuna per author. This fee is non-returnable. The fee should be paid to the ULUPUH account, which is (IBAN) HR6223400091100165353 (Privredna banka Zagreb): When making the payment, the author should give his or her name and surname, and in the box provided for purpose of the payment, write “52nd Zagreb Salon” (in the field marked “model” write HR00, and in the field where “poziv na broj” is given write down the date of the payment, without spaces or period). The participation fee has to be paid before the Submission Form is filled in, so that the receipt for the payment, in pdf or jpeg format can be read in the foreseen space in the Submission Form.

 

All the works and concepts submitted will be examined and selected for exhibition by the Panel of Adjudicators, composed of Nikola Albaneže, Dragan Damjanović, Višnja Slavica Gabout, Petra Krpan, Guido Quien, Jadranko Rebec, and Jerica Ziherl.

 

The panel has been appointed by the Organising Committee of the 52nd Zagreb Salon.

 

The Organising Committee is composed of: Koraljka Kovač (HDLU), Mirna Rudan Lisak (City Office for Education, Culture and Sport), Nevena Tudor Perković (Ministry of Culture), and the ULUPUH board of management, consisting of: Ivana Bakal, president, Mario Aničić, Janko Belaj, Rea Boschi, Anastazija Debelli, Tatjana Grgurina Vučetić, Silva Kalčić, Goroslav Keller, Davor Klarić, Ivan Marušić Klif, Luka Petrinjak, Danijela Pičuljan and Davor Šunk.

 

The curator of the Salon, in agreement with members of the Panel, reserves the right when the exhibition of the Salon is being set up, if need because of the conditions of production or for the purpose of thematic compatibility, to shift any given work out of the category for which it was entered.

 

All works selected for exhibition at the Salon are automatically placed in the competition for the Salon’s Grand Prix. Members of the professional bodies of the Salon and their immediate relatives have the right to take part in the Salon, but are not eligible to compete for the prizes.

 

By submitting works for the competition, authors agree to the conditions of this call, and also to their works and photographs of them being exhibited and published. All authors guarantee that they own all rights for their publication. The Organising Committee of the Salon reserves the right to photograph all the works submitted, to publish the works and graphic documentation supplied in the catalogue of the Salon, and the right to use them for documental and advertising purposes without any compensation to the authors. By making this submission, in addition, all authors, like editors and curators, understand and agree that all materials submitted to ULUPUH (photographs and manuscripts) will become part of the rich ULUPUH archives, which the association will in good faith use for promotional purposes, and for the purposes of informed notices and reviews as well as scholarly surveys.

 

Additional explanations and instructions for making a submission will be published on the Internet site of the 52nd Zagreb Salon (www.52zagrebackisalon.com) and on the Internet site of ULUPUH (www.ulupuh.hr) and via the newsletter.

 

The exhibition will be accompanied by a printed catalogue.

 

The results of the selection procedure will be announced at the latest by September 11, 2017, on the Web site www.ulupuh.hr.

 

Selected authors will be informed of the time and place for delivery of their works for the exhibition. ULUPUH will not take on any responsibility for producing and furnishing works, or any costs for their delivery and return.

 

The 52nd Zagreb Salon will be held from October 5 to 28, 2017, in Zagreb, in the Mimara Museum at Rooseveltov trg 5, in the School of Applied Art and Design – the Izidor Kršnjavi Exhibition Salon (Trg Maršala Tita 11), F22 (ADU Hall, Frankopanska 22) and the ULUPUH Gallery at Tkalčićeva ulica 14. A number of ancillary events will take place alongside the exhibition.

 

When the Salon is over, authors must personally pick up their works according to information to be received from the Salon’s secretary

 

Authors are obliged to adhere to the deadlines for delivering and taking back their works, otherwise ULUPUH as executive organiser of the 52nd Zagreb Salon will be unable to take any responsibility for them.

 

The Panel of Adjudicators will propose and the Organising Committee will award the prizes of the 52nd Zagreb Salon: the Grand Prix, three equal prizes, and a prize for the best young author up to the age of 35. The Panel of Adjudicators of the Croatian section of AICA will award a special prize.

 

The winner of the Grand Prix will have the opportunity to have a solo exhibition at the following Zagreb Salon of Applied Art and Design.

 

Submission form

On top

 

 

 

Competition

ULUPUH

the Croatian Association of Artists of the Applied Arts

announces its Competition for the submission of works for

 

the 52nd Zagreb Salon

of Applied Art and Design

2017

 

The In/Applicability of Applied Art

 

 

 

Time to be held:

October 5 to October 28, 2017

 

Venues: Zagreb/

Mimara Museum (Rooseveltov trg 5)

School of Applied Art and Design, the Izidor

Kršnjavi Exhibition Room (Trg Maršala Tita 11)

F22 (ADU Hall, Frankopanska 22)

ULUPUH Gallery (Tkalčićeva 14)

other public spaces.

 

Deadline for submission:

Friday, August 25, 2017

 

Deadline for submission extended:

Saturday, October 2, 2017

Salon

Zagreb Salon, founded in 1964 by the Assembly of the City of Zagreb, is a renowned national exhibition of recent artworks, an annual review of contemporary artistic creativity devoted alternatingly to the visual arts, to architecture and town planning, and the applied arts and design.

 

The central theme of this year’s salon, devoted to applied arts and design, is “The in/applicability of applied art”.

 

Alongside the central thematic exhibition and two ancillary thematic exhibitions, at the 52nd  Zagreb Salon a number of associated events will be put on.

Theme

The In/Applicability of Applied Art

 

 

 

 

“The complex interrelations between the systematisation of human activities and the overcoming of this process are most clearly manifested in the field of art, particularly in the applied arts. From some reason – well founded and inherently justified, not for the mere sake of theoretical classification and organisational arbitrariness – the borders among disciplines still exist, although quite a large number of artists persistently and indeed very successfully do transgress them. It is not just about a dialogue between tradition and the new (sometimes to the degree at which tradition is quite simply erased and negated), but about an essential constructive property of contemporary art practice and production. This is the property formulated in the total privileging of concept, of the authorial intention. In consequence, the means with which a certain concept is given expression become much less important and, which logically derives from this kind of situation, the distinction that starts off from technique, from the pertaining materials, a settled discipline, has become superfluous, speaking strictly, pointless.

 

Divisions have always been arbitrary of course, but to the extent that functionality justifies them, there is no problem in their existence. Naturally graphic and product design have their own particular niches that break the bounds with their originality, getting outside of the regular boxes. On the other hand, photography, video, performance are the disciplines that most simply abolish the borders between visual (in earlier terminology fine and if we trust to the translations, beautiful) and applied arts. Does this aspect bring in some difference, and if so, of what kind?

 

Does applicability diminish the artistic component of applied art? The black square of Kasimir Malevich appeared for the first time in 1913, as part of a set design, actually, as a design on the curtain of the stage in the Futurist opera Victory over the Sun. But it was only when it was a Picture that it won planetary notoriety and fame. “Picture” gave it a mysteriousness that otherwise, while only an applied object, it did not have.

 

If we turn to the mythic past we can with good reason decide that Icarus used one of the first specially designed products. Daedalus, that most skilled of artisans and artists (naturally, such a division did not then exist) made wings that according to what they were used for belonged to applied art, but if we accept that they were a work of creative genius, we could imagine them as superlative sculpture as well. In fact, our understanding of art, mediated by the idea of the museum (as shown by André Malraux in his Imaginary Museum) will elevate them to a status that deprives them of their function. If they existed, and if they had been preserved, where would these mythic wings belong? Would Daedalus and Malevich today submit them to the Zagreb Salon, as organised either by HDLU or by ULUPUH (the fine and applied arts organisations respectively)?  Such dichotomies belong among false dilemmas, although that does not make them any less real. They derive from the distinctions of our culture that (another characteristic immanent to the contemporary age) at the same time attempts to overcome them.

 

We call upon artists in their work and own selection who apply to the 52nd Zagreb Salon to take into consideration, as far as they are able, the issue of the relations between the applicable and the autotelic (which also absolutely has its own raison d’être). Instead of set, seemingly, and in fact common places that thematise space, time, energy and so on, we invite them to pay attention to that form of the comprehension of the social purposefulness of their own production. After all, the quality criterion – this elusive and yet very essential ingredient, that subtle definition to which we always return – will anyway be the determining factor (not adherence to the set theme) for being placed in the exhibition selection.

 

Along with the 52nd Zagreb Salon there is a concrete task: to devise a way of revitalising the complex of the Jakovlje Palace: first of all, its grounds, the space of which provides a wide range of opportunities, from landscape design to projects that at the current moment we have no inkling of. Your ideas are the first step to their realisation.”

 

Nikola Albaneže

Entry rules

Works can be submitted to the competition for the following:

 

∙ the central thematic exhibition, In/Applicability of  Applied Art, in the premises of the Mimara Museum, Rooseveltov trg 5 and in the exhibition salon of the Izidor Kršnjavi School of  Applied Art and Design, Trg Maršala Tita 11

 

∙ the ancillary thematic exhibition, The Jakovlje Assignment, which will be held in the premises of the ULUPUH Gallery, Tkalčićeva 14, Zagreb

 

∙ ancillary thematic events, The ZS Laboratory (fashion events, performances, workshops) in room F22, Rooms of the ADU [Academy of Dramatic Art], Frankopanska 22, Zagreb

 

Works can be in any artistic medium at all. Independently of the themes, these are exhibitions of applied art and design, and so all high-quality works from this area are implied.

 

 

 

 

The executive organiser of the 52nd Zagreb Salon is the Croatian Association of Artists of the Applied Arts – ULUPUH.

 

The director of the 52nd Zagreb Salon is Ivana Bakal, president of ULUPUH.

 

All authors and groups of authors from the Republic of Croatia and also those who are connected by their work to Croatia, authors from abroad whose work complies with the concept or who have been invited by the curator or the Organising Committee have the right to take part in the 52nd Zagreb Salon.

 

Each author and each group of authors has the right to submit at most three (3) works with which to take part in all the exhibitions of the Salon. Works that were produced in the period from 2014 to 2017 may be submitted.

 

The exhibition will put on show works of selected and works of invited authors. The selection of works will be made by the Curator and the Panel of Adjudicators of the 52nd Zagreb Salon.

 

Works are to be submitted online only, via the Submission Form with the appropriate accompanying documentation (as specified in the Submission Form).

 

There is a participation fee of 150 kuna per author. This fee is non-returnable. The fee should be paid to the ULUPUH account, which is (IBAN) HR6223400091100165353 (Privredna banka Zagreb): When making the payment, the author should give his or her name and surname, and in the box provided for purpose of the payment, write “52nd Zagreb Salon” (in the field marked “model” write HR00, and in the field where “poziv na broj” is given write down the date of the payment, without spaces or period). The participation fee has to be paid before the Submission Form is filled in, so that the receipt for the payment, in pdf or jpeg format can be read in the foreseen space in the Submission Form.

 

All the works and concepts submitted will be examined and selected for exhibition by the Panel of Adjudicators, composed of Nikola Albaneže, Dragan Damjanović, Višnja Slavica Gabout, Petra Krpan, Guido Quien, Jadranko Rebec, and Jerica Ziherl.

 

The panel has been appointed by the Organising Committee of the 52nd Zagreb Salon.

 

The Organising Committee is composed of: Koraljka Kovač (HDLU), Mirna Rudan Lisak (City Office for Education, Culture and Sport), Nevena Tudor Perković (Ministry of Culture), and the ULUPUH board of management, consisting of: Ivana Bakal, president, Mario Aničić, Janko Belaj, Rea Boschi, Anastazija Debelli, Tatjana Grgurina Vučetić, Silva Kalčić, Goroslav Keller, Davor Klarić, Ivan Marušić Klif, Luka Petrinjak, Danijela Pičuljan and Davor Šunk.

 

The curator of the Salon, in agreement with members of the Panel, reserves the right when the exhibition of the Salon is being set up, if need because of the conditions of production or for the purpose of thematic compatibility, to shift any given work out of the category for which it was entered.

 

All works selected for exhibition at the Salon are automatically placed in the competition for the Salon’s Grand Prix. Members of the professional bodies of the Salon and their immediate relatives have the right to take part in the Salon, but are not eligible to compete for the prizes.

 

By submitting works for the competition, authors agree to the conditions of this call, and also to their works and photographs of them being exhibited and published. All authors guarantee that they own all rights for their publication. The Organising Committee of the Salon reserves the right to photograph all the works submitted, to publish the works and graphic documentation supplied in the catalogue of the Salon, and the right to use them for documental and advertising purposes without any compensation to the authors. By making this submission, in addition, all authors, like editors and curators, understand and agree that all materials submitted to ULUPUH (photographs and manuscripts) will become part of the rich ULUPUH archives, which the association will in good faith use for promotional purposes, and for the purposes of informed notices and reviews as well as scholarly surveys.

 

Additional explanations and instructions for making a submission will be published on the Internet site of the 52nd Zagreb Salon (www.52zagrebackisalon.com) and on the Internet site of ULUPUH (www.ulupuh.hr) and via the newsletter.

 

The exhibition will be accompanied by a printed catalogue.

 

The results of the selection procedure will be announced at the latest by September 11, 2017, on the Web site www.ulupuh.hr.

 

Selected authors will be informed of the time and place for delivery of their works for the exhibition. ULUPUH will not take on any responsibility for producing and furnishing works, or any costs for their delivery and return.

 

The 52nd Zagreb Salon will be held from October 5 to 28, 2017, in Zagreb, in the Mimara Museum at Rooseveltov trg 5, in the School of Applied Art and Design – the Izidor Kršnjavi Exhibition Salon (Trg Maršala Tita 11), F22 (ADU Hall, Frankopanska 22) and the ULUPUH Gallery at Tkalčićeva ulica 14. A number of ancillary events will take place alongside the exhibition.

 

When the Salon is over, authors must personally pick up their works according to information to be received from the Salon’s secretary

 

Authors are obliged to adhere to the deadlines for delivering and taking back their works, otherwise ULUPUH as executive organiser of the 52nd Zagreb Salon will be unable to take any responsibility for them.

 

The Panel of Adjudicators will propose and the Organising Committee will award the prizes of the 52nd Zagreb Salon: the Grand Prix, three equal prizes, and a prize for the best young author up to the age of 35. The Panel of Adjudicators of the Croatian section of AICA will award a special prize.

 

The winner of the Grand Prix will have the opportunity to have a solo exhibition at the following Zagreb Salon of Applied Art and Design.

 

Submission form

On top

 

 

 

Competition

ULUPUH

the Croatian Association of Artists of the Applied Arts announces its Competition for the submission  of works for

 

the 52nd Zagreb Salon

of Applied Art and Design

2017

 

The In/Applicability of Applied Art

 

 

 

Time to be held:

October 5 to October 28, 2017

 

Venues: Zagreb/

Mimara Museum (Rooseveltov trg 5)

School of Applied Art and Design, the Izidor

Kršnjavi Exhibition Room (Trg Maršala Tita 11), F22 (ADU Hall, Frankopanska 22)

ULUPUH Gallery (Tkalčićeva 14)

other public spaces

 

Deadline for submission:

Friday, August 25, 2017

 

Deadline for submission extended:

Saturday, October 2, 2017

Salon

Zagreb Salon, founded in 1964 by the Assembly of the City of Zagreb, is a renowned national exhibition of recent artworks, an annual review of contemporary artistic creativity devoted alternatingly to the visual arts, to architecture and town planning, and the applied arts and design.

 

The central theme of this year’s salon, devoted to applied arts and design, is

“The in/applicability of applied art”.

 

Alongside the central thematic exhibition and two ancillary thematic exhibitions, at the 52nd  Zagreb Salon a number of associated events will be put on.

Theme

The In/Applicability of Applied Art

 

 

 

 

“The complex interrelations between the systematisation of human activities and the overcoming of this process are most clearly manifested in the field of art, particularly in the applied arts. From some reason – well founded and inherently justified, not for the mere sake of theoretical classification and organisational arbitrariness – the borders among disciplines still exist, although quite a large number of artists persistently and indeed very successfully do transgress them. It is not just about a dialogue between tradition and the new (sometimes to the degree at which tradition is quite simply erased and negated), but about an essential constructive property of contemporary art practice and production. This is the property formulated in the total privileging of concept, of the authorial intention. In consequence, the means with which a certain concept is given expression become much less important and, which logically derives from this kind of situation, the distinction that starts off from technique, from the pertaining materials, a settled discipline, has become superfluous, speaking strictly, pointless.

 

Divisions have always been arbitrary of course, but to the extent that functionality justifies them, there is no problem in their existence. Naturally graphic and product design have their own particular niches that break the bounds with their originality, getting outside of the regular boxes. On the other hand, photography, video, performance are the disciplines that most simply abolish the borders between visual (in earlier terminology fine and if we trust to the translations, beautiful) and applied arts. Does this aspect bring in some difference, and if so, of what kind?

 

Does applicability diminish the artistic component of applied art? The black square of Kasimir Malevich appeared for the first time in 1913, as part of a set design, actually, as a design on the curtain of the stage in the Futurist opera Victory over the Sun. But it was only when it was a Picture that it won planetary notoriety and fame. “Picture” gave it a mysteriousness that otherwise, while only an applied object, it did not have.

 

If we turn to the mythic past we can with good reason decide that Icarus used one of the first specially designed products. Daedalus, that most skilled of artisans and artists (naturally, such a division did not then exist) made wings that according to what they were used for belonged to applied art, but if we accept that they were a work of creative genius, we could imagine them as superlative sculpture as well. In fact, our understanding of art, mediated by the idea of the museum (as shown by André Malraux in his Imaginary Museum) will elevate them to a status that deprives them of their function. If they existed, and if they had been preserved, where would these mythic wings belong? Would Daedalus and Malevich today submit them to the Zagreb Salon, as organised either by HDLU or by ULUPUH (the fine and applied arts organisations respectively)?  Such dichotomies belong among false dilemmas, although that does not make them any less real. They derive from the distinctions of our culture that (another characteristic immanent to the contemporary age) at the same time attempts to overcome them.

 

We call upon artists in their work and own selection who apply to the 52nd Zagreb Salon to take into consideration, as far as they are able, the issue of the relations between the applicable and the autotelic (which also absolutely has its own raison d’être). Instead of set, seemingly, and in fact common places that thematise space, time, energy and so on, we invite them to pay attention to that form of the comprehension of the social purposefulness of their own production. After all, the quality criterion – this elusive and yet very essential ingredient, that subtle definition to which we always return – will anyway be the determining factor (not adherence to the set theme) for being placed in the exhibition selection.

 

Along with the 52nd Zagreb Salon there is a concrete task: to devise a way of revitalising the complex of the Jakovlje Palace: first of all, its grounds, the space of which provides a wide range of opportunities, from landscape design to projects that at the current moment we have no inkling of. Your ideas are the first step to their realisation.”

 

Nikola Albaneže

Entry rules

Works can be submitted to the competition for the following:

 

∙ the central thematic exhibition, In/Applicability of  Applied Art, in the premises of the Mimara Museum, Rooseveltov trg 5 and in the exhibition salon of the Izidor Kršnjavi School of  Applied Art and Design, Trg Maršala Tita 11

 

∙ the ancillary thematic exhibition The Jakovlje Assignment, which will be held in the premises of the ULUPUH Gallery, Tkalčićeva 14, Zagreb

 

∙ ancillary thematic events, The ZS Laboratory (fashion events, performances, workshops) in room F22, Rooms of the ADU [Academy of Dramatic Art], Frankopanska 22, Zagreb

 

Works can be in any artistic medium at all. Independently of the themes, these are exhibitions of applied art and design, and so all high-quality works from this area are implied.

 

 

 

 

The executive organiser of the 52nd Zagreb Salon is the Croatian Association of Artists of the Applied Arts – ULUPUH.

 

The director of the 52nd Zagreb Salon is Ivana Bakal, president of ULUPUH.

 

All authors and groups of authors from the Republic of Croatia and also those who are connected by their work to Croatia, authors from abroad whose work complies with the concept or who have been invited by the curator or the Organising Committee have the right to take part in the 52nd Zagreb Salon.

 

Each author and each group of authors has the right to submit at most three (3) works with which to take part in all the exhibitions of the Salon. Works that were produced in the period from 2014 to 2017 may be submitted.

 

The exhibition will put on show works of selected and works of invited authors. The selection of works will be made by the Curator and the Panel of Adjudicators of the 52nd Zagreb Salon.

 

Works are to be submitted online only, via the Submission Form with the appropriate accompanying documentation (as specified in the Submission Form).

 

There is a participation fee of 150 kuna per author. This fee is non-returnable. The fee should be paid to the ULUPUH account, which is (IBAN) HR6223400091100165353 (Privredna banka Zagreb): When making the payment, the author should give his or her name and surname, and in the box provided for purpose of the payment, write “52nd Zagreb Salon” (in the field marked “model” write HR00, and in the field where “poziv na broj” is given write down the date of the payment, without spaces or period). The participation fee has to be paid before the Submission Form is filled in, so that the receipt for the payment, in pdf or jpeg format can be read in the foreseen space in the Submission Form.

 

All the works and concepts submitted will be examined and selected for exhibition by the Panel of Adjudicators, composed of Nikola Albaneže, Dragan Damjanović, Višnja Slavica Gabout, Petra Krpan, Guido Quien, Jadranko Rebec, and Jerica Ziherl.

 

The panel has been appointed by the Organising Committee of the 52nd Zagreb Salon.

 

The Organising Committee is composed of: Koraljka Kovač (HDLU), Mirna Rudan Lisak (City Office for Education, Culture and Sport), Nevena Tudor Perković (Ministry of Culture), and the ULUPUH board of management, consisting of: Ivana Bakal, president, Mario Aničić, Janko Belaj, Rea Boschi, Anastazija Debelli, Tatjana Grgurina Vučetić, Silva Kalčić, Goroslav Keller, Davor Klarić, Ivan Marušić Klif, Luka Petrinjak, Danijela Pičuljan and Davor Šunk.

 

The curator of the Salon, in agreement with members of the Panel, reserves the right when the exhibition of the Salon is being set up, if need because of the conditions of production or for the purpose of thematic compatibility, to shift any given work out of the category for which it was entered.

 

All works selected for exhibition at the Salon are automatically placed in the competition for the Salon’s Grand Prix. Members of the professional bodies of the Salon and their immediate relatives have the right to take part in the Salon, but are not eligible to compete for the prizes.

 

By submitting works for the competition, authors agree to the conditions of this call, and also to their works and photographs of them being exhibited and published. All authors guarantee that they own all rights for their publication. The Organising Committee of the Salon reserves the right to photograph all the works submitted, to publish the works and graphic documentation supplied in the catalogue of the Salon, and the right to use them for documental and advertising purposes without any compensation to the authors. By making this submission, in addition, all authors, like editors and curators, understand and agree that all materials submitted to ULUPUH (photographs and manuscripts) will become part of the rich ULUPUH archives, which the association will in good faith use for promotional purposes, and for the purposes of informed notices and reviews as well as scholarly surveys.

 

Additional explanations and instructions for making a submission will be published on the Internet site of the 52nd Zagreb Salon (www.52zagrebackisalon.com) and on the Internet site of ULUPUH (www.ulupuh.hr) and via the newsletter.

 

The exhibition will be accompanied by a printed catalogue.

 

The results of the selection procedure will be announced at the latest by September 11, 2017, on the Web site www.ulupuh.hr.

 

Selected authors will be informed of the time and place for delivery of their works for the exhibition. ULUPUH will not take on any responsibility for producing and furnishing works, or any costs for their delivery and return.

 

The 52nd Zagreb Salon will be held from October 5 to 28, 2017, in Zagreb, in the Mimara Museum at Rooseveltov trg 5, in the School of Applied Art and Design – the Izidor Kršnjavi Exhibition Salon (Trg Maršala Tita 11), F22 (ADU Hall, Frankopanska 22) and the ULUPUH Gallery at Tkalčićeva ulica 14. A number of ancillary events will take place alongside the exhibition.

 

When the Salon is over, authors must personally pick up their works according to information to be received from the Salon’s secretary

 

Authors are obliged to adhere to the deadlines for delivering and taking back their works, otherwise ULUPUH as executive organiser of the 52nd Zagreb Salon will be unable to take any responsibility for them.

 

The Panel of Adjudicators will propose and the Organising Committee will award the prizes of the 52nd Zagreb Salon: the Grand Prix, three equal prizes, and a prize for the best young author up to the age of 35. The Panel of Adjudicators of the Croatian section of AICA will award a special prize.

 

The winner of the Grand Prix will have the opportunity to have a solo exhibition at the following Zagreb Salon of Applied Art and Design.

 

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Competition

ULUPUH

the Croatian Association of Artists of the Applied Arts announces its Competition for the submission of works for

 

the 52nd Zagreb Salon

of Applied Art and Design

2017

 

The In/Applicability of Applied Art

 

 

 

Time to be held:

October 5 to October 28, 2017

 

Venues: Zagreb/

Mimara Museum (Rooseveltov trg 5), School of Applied Art and Design, the Izidor Kršnjavi Exhibition Room (Trg Maršala Tita 11), F22 (ADU Hall, Frankopanska 22), ULUPUH Gallery (Tkalčićeva 14) and other public spaces.

 

Deadline for submission:

Friday, August 25, 2017

 

Deadline for submission extended:

Saturday, October 2, 2017

Salon

Zagreb Salon, founded in 1964 by the Assembly of the City of Zagreb, is a renowned national exhibition of recent artworks, an annual review of contemporary artistic creativity devoted alternatingly to the visual arts, to architecture and town planning, and the applied arts and design.

 

The central theme of this year’s salon, devoted to applied arts and design, is “The in/applicability of applied art”.

 

Alongside the central thematic exhibition and two ancillary thematic exhibitions, at the 52nd  Zagreb Salon a number of associated events will be put on.

Theme

The In/Applicability of Applied Art

 

 

 

 

“The complex interrelations between the systematisation of human activities and the overcoming of this process are most clearly manifested in the field of art, particularly in the applied arts. From some reason – well founded and inherently justified, not for the mere sake of theoretical classification and organisational arbitrariness – the borders among disciplines still exist, although quite a large number of artists persistently and indeed very successfully do transgress them. It is not just about a dialogue between tradition and the new (sometimes to the degree at which tradition is quite simply erased and negated), but about an essential constructive property of contemporary art practice and production. This is the property formulated in the total privileging of concept, of the authorial intention. In consequence, the means with which a certain concept is given expression become much less important and, which logically derives from this kind of situation, the distinction that starts off from technique, from the pertaining materials, a settled discipline, has become superfluous, speaking strictly, pointless.

 

Divisions have always been arbitrary of course, but to the extent that functionality justifies them, there is no problem in their existence. Naturally graphic and product design have their own particular niches that break the bounds with their originality, getting outside of the regular boxes. On the other hand, photography, video, performance are the disciplines that most simply abolish the borders between visual (in earlier terminology fine and if we trust to the translations, beautiful) and applied arts. Does this aspect bring in some difference, and if so, of what kind?

 

Does applicability diminish the artistic component of applied art? The black square of Kasimir Malevich appeared for the first time in 1913, as part of a set design, actually, as a design on the curtain of the stage in the Futurist opera Victory over the Sun. But it was only when it was a Picture that it won planetary notoriety and fame. “Picture” gave it a mysteriousness that otherwise, while only an applied object, it did not have.

 

If we turn to the mythic past we can with good reason decide that Icarus used one of the first specially designed products. Daedalus, that most skilled of artisans and artists (naturally, such a division did not then exist) made wings that according to what they were used for belonged to applied art, but if we accept that they were a work of creative genius, we could imagine them as superlative sculpture as well. In fact, our understanding of art, mediated by the idea of the museum (as shown by André Malraux in his Imaginary Museum) will elevate them to a status that deprives them of their function. If they existed, and if they had been preserved, where would these mythic wings belong? Would Daedalus and Malevich today submit them to the Zagreb Salon, as organised either by HDLU or by ULUPUH (the fine and applied arts organisations respectively)?  Such dichotomies belong among false dilemmas, although that does not make them any less real. They derive from the distinctions of our culture that (another characteristic immanent to the contemporary age) at the same time attempts to overcome them.

 

We call upon artists in their work and own selection who apply to the 52nd Zagreb Salon to take into consideration, as far as they are able, the issue of the relations between the applicable and the autotelic (which also absolutely has its own raison d’être). Instead of set, seemingly, and in fact common places that thematise space, time, energy and so on, we invite them to pay attention to that form of the comprehension of the social purposefulness of their own production. After all, the quality criterion – this elusive and yet very essential ingredient, that subtle definition to which we always return – will anyway be the determining factor (not adherence to the set theme) for being placed in the exhibition selection.

 

Along with the 52nd Zagreb Salon there is a concrete task: to devise a way of revitalising the complex of the Jakovlje Palace: first of all, its grounds, the space of which provides a wide range of opportunities, from landscape design to projects that at the current moment we have no inkling of. Your ideas are the first step to their realisation.”

 

Nikola Albaneže

Entry rules

Works can be submitted to the competition for the following:

 

∙ the central thematic exhibition, In/Applicability of  Applied Art, in the premises of the Mimara Museum, Rooseveltov trg 5 and in the exhibition salon of the Izidor Kršnjavi School of  Applied Art and Design, Trg Maršala Tita 11

 

∙ the ancillary thematic exhibition The Jakovlje Assignment, which will be held in the premises of the ULUPUH Gallery, Tkalčićeva 14, Zagreb

 

∙ ancillary thematic events, The ZS Laboratory (fashion events, performances, workshops) in room F22, Rooms of the ADU [Academy of Dramatic Art], Frankopanska 22, Zagreb

 

Works can be in any artistic medium at all. Independently of the themes, these are exhibitions of applied art and design, and so all high-quality works from this area are implied.

 

 

 

 

The executive organiser of the 52nd Zagreb Salon is the Croatian Association of Artists of the Applied Arts – ULUPUH.

 

The director of the 52nd Zagreb Salon is Ivana Bakal, president of ULUPUH.

 

All authors and groups of authors from the Republic of Croatia and also those who are connected by their work to Croatia, authors from abroad whose work complies with the concept or who have been invited by the curator or the Organising Committee have the right to take part in the 52nd Zagreb Salon.

 

Each author and each group of authors has the right to submit at most three (3) works with which to take part in all the exhibitions of the Salon. Works that were produced in the period from 2014 to 2017 may be submitted.

 

The exhibition will put on show works of selected and works of invited authors. The selection of works will be made by the Curator and the Panel of Adjudicators of the 52nd Zagreb Salon.

 

Works are to be submitted online only, via the Submission Form with the appropriate accompanying documentation (as specified in the Submission Form).

 

There is a participation fee of 150 kuna per author. This fee is non-returnable. The fee should be paid to the ULUPUH account, which is (IBAN) HR6223400091100165353 (Privredna banka Zagreb): When making the payment, the author should give his or her name and surname, and in the box provided for purpose of the payment, write “52nd Zagreb Salon” (in the field marked “model” write HR00, and in the field where “poziv na broj” is given write down the date of the payment, without spaces or period). The participation fee has to be paid before the Submission Form is filled in, so that the receipt for the payment, in pdf or jpeg format can be read in the foreseen space in the Submission Form.

 

All the works and concepts submitted will be examined and selected for exhibition by the Panel of Adjudicators, composed of Nikola Albaneže, Dragan Damjanović, Višnja Slavica Gabout, Petra Krpan, Guido Quien, Jadranko Rebec, and Jerica Ziherl.

 

The panel has been appointed by the Organising Committee of the 52nd Zagreb Salon.

 

The Organising Committee is composed of: Koraljka Kovač (HDLU), Mirna Rudan Lisak (City Office for Education, Culture and Sport), Nevena Tudor Perković (Ministry of Culture), and the ULUPUH board of management, consisting of: Ivana Bakal, president, Mario Aničić, Janko Belaj, Rea Boschi, Anastazija Debelli, Tatjana Grgurina Vučetić, Silva Kalčić, Goroslav Keller, Davor Klarić, Ivan Marušić Klif, Luka Petrinjak, Danijela Pičuljan and Davor Šunk.

 

The curator of the Salon, in agreement with members of the Panel, reserves the right when the exhibition of the Salon is being set up, if need because of the conditions of production or for the purpose of thematic compatibility, to shift any given work out of the category for which it was entered.

 

All works selected for exhibition at the Salon are automatically placed in the competition for the Salon’s Grand Prix. Members of the professional bodies of the Salon and their immediate relatives have the right to take part in the Salon, but are not eligible to compete for the prizes.

 

By submitting works for the competition, authors agree to the conditions of this call, and also to their works and photographs of them being exhibited and published. All authors guarantee that they own all rights for their publication. The Organising Committee of the Salon reserves the right to photograph all the works submitted, to publish the works and graphic documentation supplied in the catalogue of the Salon, and the right to use them for documental and advertising purposes without any compensation to the authors. By making this submission, in addition, all authors, like editors and curators, understand and agree that all materials submitted to ULUPUH (photographs and manuscripts) will become part of the rich ULUPUH archives, which the association will in good faith use for promotional purposes, and for the purposes of informed notices and reviews as well as scholarly surveys.

 

Additional explanations and instructions for making a submission will be published on the Internet site of the 52nd Zagreb Salon (www.52zagrebackisalon.com) and on the Internet site of ULUPUH (www.ulupuh.hr) and via the newsletter.

 

The exhibition will be accompanied by a printed catalogue.

 

The results of the selection procedure will be announced at the latest by September 11, 2017, on the Web site www.ulupuh.hr.

 

Selected authors will be informed of the time and place for delivery of their works for the exhibition. ULUPUH will not take on any responsibility for producing and furnishing works, or any costs for their delivery and return.

 

The 52nd Zagreb Salon will be held from October 5 to 28, 2017, in Zagreb, in the Mimara Museum at Rooseveltov trg 5, in the School of Applied Art and Design – the Izidor Kršnjavi Exhibition Salon (Trg Maršala Tita 11), F22 (ADU Hall, Frankopanska 22) and the ULUPUH Gallery at Tkalčićeva ulica 14. A number of ancillary events will take place alongside the exhibition.

 

When the Salon is over, authors must personally pick up their works according to information to be received from the Salon’s secretary

 

Authors are obliged to adhere to the deadlines for delivering and taking back their works, otherwise ULUPUH as executive organiser of the 52nd Zagreb Salon will be unable to take any responsibility for them.

 

The Panel of Adjudicators will propose and the Organising Committee will award the prizes of the 52nd Zagreb Salon: the Grand Prix, three equal prizes, and a prize for the best young author up to the age of 35. The Panel of Adjudicators of the Croatian section of AICA will award a special prize.

 

The winner of the Grand Prix will have the opportunity to have a solo exhibition at the following Zagreb Salon of Applied Art and Design.

 

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