Abramović, Marina, et al, and Raša Todosijević, designer.

[YUGOSLAV NEO-AVANT-GARDE – PERFORMANCE ART] Drangularijum [Collection of curiosities].

Belgrade: Galerija studentskogo kulturnog tsentra, 1971. Square quarto (24 × 25) cm. Original printed wrappers; [28] pp. Illustrations throughout. Text in BCMS and English. Very minor discoloration to upper edge of cover (ca. 3 mm); else very good. Item #54372

A catalog for an exhibition of Yugoslav conceptual artists, featuring an early installation of Marina Abramović (b.1948), whose name has since become synonymous with performance art internationally. One of sixteen artists featured in the show co-curated by all the participants, the artists challenged themselves to exhibit an object that already existed and that “represented themselves and their own creativity” rather than to create a new art object. Each artist is photographed with their object for the catalog, with an accompanying conceptual text with artists such as Gera Urkom, Era Milivojević, and Raša Todosijević, among others. The exhibition at the Belgrade Student Center signaled a new form of expression later referred to as Nova umjetnicka praksa (The New Artistic Practice) that de-emphasized the artist as creator, and focused instead on the artist as a personality behind the work.

A student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb at the time of the exhibition, Abramović presented the work “Cloud I, Cloud II and 334” with which she drew attention to the physical versus the conceptual aspects of seeing, a relationship between the body and mind which she would continue exploring in her performance work. The exhibition was organized by the OHO group, active in Ljubljana in 1966–1971. The exhibition catalog also announces the formation of an artist commune by the group members, eleven of whom moved to a shared house, which also signaled a kind of dissolution of the group as such. The introductory text by Biljana Tomić, which doubles as a manifesto of the new commune states: “OHO does not deal with art. OHO is living and learning. It starts from the primary forms of creation to ultimately realize the idea of the synthesis of art.” The catalog was designed by the painter, graphic artist and performance artist Roša Todosijević, one of the main animators of conceptualism in Belgrade in the 1970s.

As of September 2025, KVK, OCLC show copies at the Kandinsky Library (Paris), the British Library, and the Getty.

Price: €600.00

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