TARWUK: Posadila sam kost u zimskom vrtu

TARWUK, White Cube Mason's yard

White Cube Mason’s Yard presents ‘Posadila sam kost u zimskom vrtu’, the first UK exhibition by artist duo TARWUK (Bruno Pogačnik Tremow and Ivana Vukšić, both born 1981). Working as a single entity, TARWUK have created an installation comprising a new group of sculptures, paintings and works on paper. The exhibition’s title, which loosely translates to ‘I planted a bone in the winter garden’, is a poetic statement that reflects the artists’ point of departure: the dichotomy of nature in its unbridled state and the cultivation of an ordered ‘garden’. In taking the garden as a symbol of man’s labour and innate struggle – as object and ornament, enclosure and stage – the gardener, or artist, becomes caretaker of a subconscious terrain.

TARWUK form part of a generation who came of age during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Though now living and working in New York, the artists’ practice can be understood within the context of the aspirations, struggles and eventual dissolution of the former Yugoslavian state and its elusive artistic avant-garde. Combining disparate visual languages and painterly styles to make subtle historical connections, TARWUK deploy numerous visible and invisible references to create multi-disciplinary micro-worlds, a dynamic site of collaboration and exchange.
A new group of sculptures find their place among large-scale figurative paintings, becoming part of tenebrous, carnivalesque and theatrical mise-en-scènes. Considered by the artists to be ‘architectural models of organic growth’, where living is understood as a performative act played out on a cosmic stage, TARWUK construct a vision that is kaleidoscopic and illusive.

Duration 01 February 2023 - 18 March 2023
Times Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 6pm
Cost Free
Venue White Cube - Mason's Yard
Address 25-26 Mason's Yard (Off Duke Street), London, SW1Y 6BU
Contact 2079305373 / enquiries@whitecube.com / www.whitecube.com

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