IVANA IVKOVIĆ FACING CALIFORNIA & ARIZONA
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Overview
The American Southwest promises something of a religious experience to locals, domestic travelers, and international tourists alike. A person could either find something new about themselves or get lost in the region, or perhaps want to just disappear. This is the private landscape created by Serbian artist Ivana Ivković as she takes audiences on a visual tour—a leisurely, inspired drive through quintessentially American scenes.
Ivković paints the sky blood-red—the water too—hinting at the ease with which a person can hide—or change their identity—in this enchanting and sometimes horrific part of the United States. She draws the human body in quick sketches, male and female subjects alike, mostly naked and sometimes wounded or aflame—holding wineglasses, sitting on the couch, or fornicating on the beach. This is a world where birds and breasts and male genitalia take off, transfixing the viewer in their manic depiction, only later to beg for forgiveness. Abstract and experimental, the artist toes the line between reality and fantasy, as though time has stopped in both a pandemic fever dream, and a love letter to SoCal and the Southwest.
Excerpts from Ivana Ivković: A Love Letter to SoCal and the Southwest by Charles Moore
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Book Details
dsbooks & Cultural Centre of Belgrade
Editor/Series editor: Dragana Radivojević
Languages: English, Serbian
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Page Number: 276
Format: 20 x 23 cm
Illustrations: 380
Text: FACING book series, Miroslav Karić; Ivana Ivković: A Love Letter to SoCal and the Southwest, Charles Moore
Translation: Željko Maksimović
Edition: Decembre 2024, 1st edition, 200
Design: Dragana Radivojević
Paper: GardaPat Périgord Matt, 135 gsm
Print: Alta Nova, Belgrade
ISBN 978-3-907135-04-4
ISBN 978-86-7996-302-4
© 2024 dsbooks Basel/CH
Content List
Edition FACING, Miroslav Karić, p.p. 13 / Ivana Ivković: A Love Letter to SoCal and the Southwest, Charles Moore, p.p. 21 / Legend, p.p. 29 / Part I – SAN DIEGO: Darling, I am coming full of hope!, p.p. 33 / Part II – ON THE ROAD!, p.p. 85 / Part III LOCKDOWN IN PARADISE, p.p. 177 / III-1 Paradise, p.p. 177 / III-2 IJUSTWANNASAY (Internal monologues between Zoom therapy sessions), p.p. 207 / Art Collection FACING, p.p. 253 / List of illustrations, p.p. 265 / Biography, p.p. 269
About the Artist
Ivana Ivković’s artistic practice is imbued with nomadic experiences, travels, and encounters with diverse cultures. She graduated in painting, earned a Master’s degree in drawing, and completed a doctorate in performance art at the Faculty of Fine Art in Belgrade. Ivković gained international recognition through her work in delegated performance, engaging in the decon- struction and reconstruction of gender roles, political relations, and ethical dilemmas. In her performances, the collective male body becomes the means of reflecting social stereotypes, encouraging the audience to reconsider their biases. Taking on an interdisciplinary approach, Ivana uses exhibition as a medium, forming site-specific installations that offer a multisensory experience of the space and event to the audience, questioning the boundaries between inti- mate and public, as well as the individual’s position within an intricate socio-political context. She has exhibited her works in collaboration with numerous institutions, including the Hum- boldt Forum in Berlin, Stuttgart’s ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), museums of contem- porary art in Athens, Belgrade, Novi Sad, Sarajevo, and Nicosia, Hošek Contemporary in Ber- lin, the Goethe Institute, EIKON Schauraum gallery (MuseumsQuartier Wien), Museums and Galleries of Podgorica, the National Museum of Montenegro, Kibla Portal in Maribor, Eugster II Belgrade, NGVU (New Gallery of Visual Arts), Residency Unlimited in New York, the October Salon and Cultural Center of Belgrade. She has received a significant number of grants and awards, and her works are part of various collections.
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