The Blossoms of the Beast
Solo Exhibition: Oct 10 - Nov 09, 2025; Gallery MKC / Dom mladih, Split, Croatia
The Blossoms of the Beast is a four-channel video and sound installation with two projectors, two TV screens, 41 inject prints on paper
(42x60 cm each), and wall drawing with black tape.
The exhibition was curated by Jasna Gluic who also wrote the insightful accompanying text.
Photos by Zaklina Antonijevic.
For more information please visit the official MKC web site.
The Blossoms of the Beast: Main Channel
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A short excerpt from the main channel video for the multimedia installation The Blossoms of the Beast. The total length of the video is 15:08 min.
The Blossoms of the Beast will be a four-channel video and sound installation with 41 prints on paper and wall drawing with black tape.
The Blossoms of the Beast: Second Channel
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An excerpt from the second channel video for the multimedia installation The Blossoms of the Beast. The total length of the video is 8:05 min.
The Blossoms of the Beast will be a four-channel video and sound installation with 41 prints on paper and wall drawing with black tape.
The Fall
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The Blossoms of the Beast
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The storyboard is a work in progress and it is based on the Noh play Seiobo.
Earlier on the Beach
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Go Back To Where You Came From
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A sketch for a new animation.
A Prayer
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The Art of Pretense
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The Castaway
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The Tragedy of the Exhibition
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The End of Summer
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Der Doppelganger
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A sketch for a new animation and follow up to our recent storyboard of the same name. It is based on the famous lieder composed by Franz Schubert. Der Doppelganger is a part of the song cycle Schwanengesang that was composed in 1828. The original lyrics were written by Heinrich Heine in 1827, while the English translation was done by Celia Sgroi.
We have changed the lyrics and transformed the love poem into a song about art and perspective. Originally, the poem ends with the narrator's realization that they are dead. Here, the spectator find themselves detached from the unstable and deceitful act of spectating.
Off the Beaten Path and Into the Mouth of the Beast
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Songs After Death
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The Songs After Death storyboard is related to The Beasts of Victory (s295, published in 11/30/2023). It is its reversed twin, as if turned inside out.
The Paradise Island: Guests and Servants
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A sketch for a new animation.
The End of Blood
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Der Doppelganger
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The storyboard is based on Der Doppelganger, the famous song by Franz Schubert. The song is a part of the song cycle Schwanengesang. It was composed in 1828, the year of Schubert's death. The lyrics of Der Doppelganger were written by Heinrich Heine in 1827, while the English translation was done by Celia Sgroi.
Our version of the work transforms what was originally a love poem into a song about art. The visual side of the work has been derived from our recent series of storyboards, and in turn the song fits thematically well within that world.
The Tragedy of the Beast
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The Paradise Island
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Hot Takes and Thoughtful Observations
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The Real Thing
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An Ending is Not a New Beginning
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The History of the Sky
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Now Only Ruins Remain
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The new piece continues the narrative started in the storyboard The Heart of Exhibition (s193, published in 12/30/2011), which ends with the sentence that opens this work. These two works together with the storyboard 2473 Revisit: SG Gallery (s195, published in 02/29/2012) were all inspired by our exhibition in the gallery Salon Galic in Split, Croatia, in 11/05/2009.
Memory Holes
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Naked Shores
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We The People
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A sketch for a new animation.
Our Heritage, Our Memory, Our Soul
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A sketch for a new animation. It picks up directly from the animation Monuments, from 2019, and continues the Storm and Stress series.
The Victory of Preaching
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A brief sketch for a new animation.
Die Gefangene Touristen
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A sketch for a new video animation.
The Beasts of Victory
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Les Touristes Captures
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A sketch for a new video animation.
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