EXHIBITIONS
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Urban Traces Town Library, Komiža, Island Vis, July 17 - July 23, 2011 These canvases, grouped and lined up actually invoke comparisons with series of random images photographed during a journey: taken as they were, without any posing. Seemingly real, but at the same time perhaps artificially created places, offers horizons of their own, horizons that establishes their own sets of values. And though the town occasionally lurks behind the buildings, at the times it vanishes and dissolves into tree tops and sky. Entering these buildings brings about almost antic i nterpretations of existence which is complex in its meanings. |
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Urban Traces Kapetanova kula gallery, Zadar, June 16 - June 30, 2011 |
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Wish You Were Here 10 A.I.R. Gallery's Annual Postcard Show, A.I.R. gallery, New York, June 23 - July 18, 2011 |
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Viaggio Museum of Ancient Glass, Zadar, Croatia, October 20 - November 10, 2010 Installation by Branka Ridicki exploring theme of travel within the context of dialogue between different cultures and religions Project Viaggio is a visual reconstruction of itinerary of an early linguist and traveler to India Filip Vezdin, described in his book Viaggio alle Indie Orientali, wherein he researched the lack of communications between distant cultures. He tried to reverse the flow of communication to the point where lack of knowing of different languages is abridged by visual component of different scripts. Vezdin concluded that if ability to understand the language of our fellow man did not bring about better understanding amongst the people, that there must be some other kind of experience and other kind of communication that would enable men to understand and ultimately care for each other. Being a renaissance man of many interests, Vezdin dived in the science of the Sufi mystics and found that one of the virtues venerated by Sufis was – travelling. The Sufis did not find travelling to be important merely because by travelling one gets to know other cultures. More important was that by being a foreigner in a foreign land one tends to lose the security one has at his home; he becomes humble and vulnerable, and thus able to feel rather than understand the position of the most deprived members of any societies. And so – Vezdin travelled! he project Viaggio is a visual attempt to undergo that very same journey from understanding to feeling and carrying. It communicates through installation of map like paintings, old suitcases, rolled paintings on paper, personal photos and 50 minutes documentary “Viaggio”. More than two centuries after him, I undergo a personal journey based on Vezdin’s itinerary, and in a documentary film compare India of Vezdin’s times and sensibility with contemporary India of the global world. With its interaction of different visual genres the Viaggio project aims to provide a new eye-point in experiencing different cultural patterns. |
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Wish You Were Here 8 A.I.R. Gallery's Annual Postcard Show, A.I.R. gallery, New York, June 23 - July 18, 2009 Yearly benefit postcard show |
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Branka Ridicki at Khan El Maghraby gallery Khan Al Maghraby gallery, Cairo, Egypt, February 5 - February 16, 2008 Paintings by Branka Ridicki from 2006 - 2008 |
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International Biennale of Sculptors and Painters - Mediterranean 2008 Town Museum of Trogir - Cate Duišin Ribar gallery, Trogir, Croatia, September 9 - September 21, 2008 HAZU- Palace Milezi, Split, Croatia, October 8 - October 23, 2008 Group show of contemporary art |
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East-West @ Dar Alanda gallery Dar Alanda gallery, Amman, Jordan, July 23 - August 14, 2008 Five women artists from East and West: Silvia Poloto, Hilda Hiary, Amina Al Nasseri, Branka Ridicki and Nadine Bourgne |
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Viaggio Mahmoud Mokhtar Museum, Mahmoud Mokhtar Cultural Centre, Cairo, Egypt, December 10 - December 24, 2007 Installation by Branka Ridicki exploring theme of travel within the context of dialogue between different cultures and religions |
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El Hakeeba (The Baggage) Alexandria Atelier, Alexandria, Egypt, 2007 Workshop and exhibition of contemporary artists dealing with the baggage - baggage as a word, an image or a concept. |
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Dialogues, Part I: The Elements Art Space Centre - Cultural Centre "Aris Garoufalidis", Ptolemaida, Greece, 2007 With the group of contemporary artists "ConnectingArt" A project where artists are engaged in a dialogue, starting from generation, national and cultural differences to the ways of modern visual perception exploring the limit effects of the work between them. |
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10th Cairo International Biennale Museum of Modern Art, Cairo, Egypt, 2006 |
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Dialogues, Part I: The Elements Vlassis gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2006 With the group of contemporary artists "ConnectingArt" A project where artists are engaged in a dialogue, starting from generation, national and cultural differences to the ways of modern visual perception exploring the limit effects of the work between them. |
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The New Esperanto, project Connecting People, Connecting Cultures UN Headquarters, New York, 2006 With the group of contemporary artists "ConnectingArt" While the involved artists all have different social and cultural backgrounds their aim is to break down traditionally constructed barriers and stereotypes. |
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Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy |
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ConnectingArt in Zadar Public Museum, Gradska straža gallery, Zadar, Croatia, 2005 With the group of contemporary artists "ConnectingArt" |
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