[spectre] grey) (area Hrvoje Hiršl: Exceptional Point + Mez Breeze: Humidcity

[Darko Fritz]

grey) (area
exhibitions in Korčula, Sisak and Zagreb
July 2024

On Wednesday, July 3, 2024 at 8 p.m. gray) (area opens two exhibitions in Korčula on St. Mark's Square: Exceptional Point by Croatian artist Hrvoje Hiršl in the Korčula Town Museum and Humidcity by the Australian artist Mez Breeze in the Wi-Fi gallery grey) (area.
In addition to these exhibitions, a group exhibition Critical Tourism is presented in the Striegl Gallery in Sisak, and in the MaMa in Zagreb a group exhibition of previous works created in the program of the Wi-Fi gallery grey) (area.
 
Hrvoje Hiršl: Exceptional Point
3rd - 24th June 2024
Korčula Town Museum
Curator: Darko Fritz
June 3rd at 8 p.m. opening of the exhibition and a talk with the artist

Exceptional Point is a light installation based on quantum optics. It is the continuation of the research of connecting the human scale to the quantum scale.
An exceptional point, in physics, is a term that denotes the moment at which a system begins to manifest properties that were not present until recently. It is a transition from a characteristic, base state to an exotic state, a crossing into up to now unknown, sensitive balance between phases, characteristics that did not exist, but subsequently appeared.
Realized with the support of CALT Centre for Advanced Laser Techniques, Institute of Physics, Zagreb
More info:
http://sivazona.hr/events/izuzetna-tocka
 

Mez Breeze: Humidcity
3rd - 31st June 2024
Wi-Fi gallery grey) (area, Trg sv. Marka, Korčula
Curators: Darko Fritz and Format C

Humidcity is a digital narrative inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. The work creates a mosaic of interactive storytelling that riffs on an extract from Calvino’s Invisible Cities via the distinctive Mezangelle style that merges poetic expression with elements of programming code and internet linguistics. Incorporating Mezangelle invites the reader to delve into the text, unravel its complexities, and experience an imagined city in a manner that blurs the line between digital and more traditional storytelling techniques. 
The exhibition can be accessed through personal mobile devices at Korčula’s main square.
More info:
http://sivazona.hr/events/humidcity
 

Critical Tourism
until September 15, 2024.
Striegl Gallery, Sisak
Artists: Boris Cvjetanović, Jana Dabac, Vitar Drinković, Katerina Duda, Darko Fritz, Dina Gligo i Vedran Gligo, Igor Grubić, Božena Končić Badurina, Andreja Kulunčić, Jelena Lovrec, Maja Marković, Edita Pecotić, Ivan Ramljak, projekt Reciplaža (Valerija Jurjević, Sanda Hančević, Darko Fritz), Ilija Šoškić, Vice Tomasović
Curator: Darko Fritz

Critical tourism implies a critique of haphazard touristification and the reflection of its social and aesthetic connotations. Critical tourism is aimed at modelling a critical discourse that challenges the commercial strive for mono-economy of tourism in Croatia and elsewhere, and its consequences on cultural, social and spatial development. The exhibition represents a selection of works of artists who critically thematise tourism in general through artistic interpretations of said topic, using them as tools for commenting and criticising the sociocultural and political-economic practices while putting emphasis on and directing the view towards the ethics, poetics, and policies of space. As case studies, its methodologies can be applied to similar tourist locations/destinations all over the world.
More info:
http://sivazona.hr/events/kriticki-turizam-izlozba-sisak
https://galerija-striegl.hr

 
Wi-Fi grey) (area, Embassy of TheWrong biennale 
until 31 December 2024.
Multimedia Institute, net.culture club MaMa, Zagreb
Curators: Darko Fritz and Format C
Embassy Wi-Fi grey) (area is part of TheWrong Biennale and consists of an exhibition at the physical location in Zagreb of works that were previously presented as part of Wi-Fi Gallery grey) (area in Korčula. The works of authors who presented them during 2022 and 2023 in a specific format for the Wi-Fi gallery: Željko Badurina, Boris Cvjetanović, Mihael Giba, Iqra Iqbal, Nour Sokhon, Ivana Sovilj and Mirna Udovčić.
More info:
http://sivazona.hr/events/ambasada


support:
Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
Aminess Hotels & Campsites
Sisak Town
Korčula Town
Dubrovnik-Neretva County
the work of the association Grey area is supported by the Kultura Nova foundation