Tomo Savić-Gecan : retrospektiva / retrospective 2020

Tomo Savić-Gecan right from the beginning placed the phenomenon of ‘nothingness’at the centre of his activity, and he builds on the practices of neo-avant-garde and conceptual art in a contemporary code. His works, in many cases interactive and processual, most often neutral, minimal and intangible to the extreme, regularly titled Untitled, will be re-performed in the exhibition space, the so-called "white cube", which is this artist’s main medium and at the same time the only certainty in meeting the observer. Since all the works are by nature site specific, one might ask if this is really a retrospective. Other important issues also remain open, as Elena Filipovic specified in the text of the exhibition catalogue: ‘But what if the show opens and then closes and a participating artist’s contribution — listed somewhere so that there is seeming evidence of its existence — couldn’t be seen or otherwise aesthetically experienced? What if it will only exist as such, which is to say, as an aesthetic object, at another time and in another place and yet its participation in the exhibition (and your participation as the visitor) is crucial to that existence?'