Maleković Vladimir | Schneider Darko: Labaš - Erotika

Name: Labaš - Erotika
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Author: Maleković Vladimir | Schneider Darko

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Author: Maleković Vladimir | Schneider Darko
Publisher: Masmedia
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Condition: Odlično
Code: 55401

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Labaš - Erotika

Maleković Vladimir | Schneider Darko

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Vladimir Maleković, Darko Schneider: Labš - Erotica

This luxuriously furnished monograph on almost three hundred very high-quality printed pages, although focused on one element of the author's creativity, at the same time very well represents the totality of the artistic aspirations of Jura Labaš (b. 1935).

... If we agree with the opinion that eroticism is a rebellion against the rules and the breaking of prohibitions, then he is, at the same time, and an anti-civilization act. As startling as this thought is, it is not far from the truth that is widely accepted in our time. The painting of Jure Labaš does not exhaust its meaning in eroticism. Nor does this collection, even though it is titled "Erotica", not only focus on sexuality. Perhaps the naming of this cycle "Mechanical Eros" would be the most suitable for the iconography and intention with which the artist was preoccupied.

We know what cosmogonic eros meant in Hesiod and in the Orphic theogonies, and what it meant in Plato's philosophy: a creative principle or the drive to realize ideas. In Jure Labaš, Eros is not a creative deity. Rather, one could say that his staging of Eros is an inverted image of Thanatos. In Labaš's works from the collection of mechanical erotica, death is closely present: the body is divided and finally disintegrates like a mechanical doll. The term "mechanics" certainly has a special importance in Labaš's imagination; it is connected, of course, with the machine that the artist personifies in certain acts. In some drawings, the machine merges with the human body: sometimes you don't know where the organic ends and the mechanical begins. By introducing mechanical movement, Labaš subordinated the act to a dangerous and aimless movement in which the body no longer manages to find either pleasure or tranquility. This multitude of machine elements, this swirling of motorcycle helmets, cables, shields, suspensions, cylinders and bumpers is a symbolic expression of the deprivation of Eros... (V. Maleković

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