Ivan Grubanov

How does official history relate to personal history? How many individual ‘complications' do the rules of political historiography allow? Ivan Grubanov describes his working method as ‘mapping myself into complex historical situations'. He usually chooses a subjective, documentary approach; there is always a certain ambivalence with regard to the subject. He avoids superficial points of view, opinions or unambiguous emblematic images.

In 2002 and 2003 Ivan Grubanov visited the trial against his former president, Slobodan Milosevic, at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Confronted with the man and the events which had shaped his life, he looked for a way to capture the intensity of this experience. He started to make drawings, in an attempt to relate to this chapter in history. Now Grubanov brings the series of ‘Visitor' drawings (2002-2003) back to the city where it originated. In addition to ‘Visitor' the series of slides ‘Study of My Father' (2004) and the video work ‘Beauty of Believing' (2005) are shown.

Ivan Grubanov (Belgrade, 1976) studied painting at the art academy in Belgrade. In 2002 and 2003 he attended the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. At the moment he partcipates in the Delfina Studio Programme in London.

Publications Ivan Grubanov
exclusively available at Stroom Den Haag

In the Netherlands the catalogue ‘Ivan Grubanov | VISITOR' (Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrado, 2005) is exclusively available at Stroom Den Haag. Accompanying this book Stroom has published the supplement 'Visitor in The Hague', with texts on the relationship between ‘Visitor' and the city of The Hague, written by Gregor D. Guy-Smith (Defence Counsel) and Kai van Hasselt (economist, urbanist).
 
Catalogue: € 20,00
Supplement: € 6,50
Catalogue + supplement: € 25,00

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