Opening in October during Paris+ par Art Basel, White Cube presents an exhibition of new work by TARWUK. Combining painting, sculpture and performance, TARWUK create work of hybrid genres and mediums that investigate Selfhood and the boundary between the individual and collective.
Working as a single entity since 2014, the artist duo TARWUK [Bruno Pogačnik Tremow (b. 1981, Zagreb, Croatia) and Ivana Vukšić (b. 1981, Dubrovnik, Croatia)] form part of a generation who came of age during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Now living and working in the US, their practice can be understood within the context of the aspirations, struggles and eventual dissolution of the former Yugoslavian state, and its elusive avant-garde. Comprising new paintings, works on paper, sculptures and illuminating orbs, ‘Conceived for the Stage’ transforms the gallery into an installation which reimagines the formal conventions of traditional theatre, evoking a metaphysical domain of real-time performance, where both objects and visitors assume roles of a troupe of performers and the audience.
Coinciding with the exhibition, TARWUK’s painting MRTISKLAAH_ovO_imzU_rataeT (2023) will be on view in White Cube’s presentation (Booth D15) at Paris+ par Art Basel, Grand Palais Éphémère, from 19–22 October 2023.
