I am pleased to share with you that a small exhibition of my work is now open in the foyer of the Gavella Theatre in Zagreb, Croatia to celebrate the first of the theater posters I will design for the new season of plays.
“This micro-exhibition serves to inaugurate Ilic's first poster for GDK Gavella. Eugene O'Neill's drama ‘Long Journey into the Night’ is summed up in it in one striking image, a scene of cyclical movement in which the steps towards the symbolic abyss seem to tick the minutes and hours of the one day in which the drama takes place. But like any such scene, it not only opens up to multiple readings, but calls to itself many other referential images. In this case, we selected three works from Ilić's oeuvre - two comics and one newspaper illustration from completely different phases of his career. We have deliberately chosen monochrome works, so that they do not visually compete with the poster, but also to draw us even deeper into the world of labyrinths, puzzles and black intellectual humor that Ilić's work is full of. In each of them there is something more than just ‘story’ and ‘information.’ Ilić's comics are not just illustrated stories; they are very often – like here – comics about what a comic is, but also what is time and what is space in that comic. Likewise, his posters are not just about the plays themselves, but about what theatre is—and, indirectly, about what reality is." - Marko Golub
The curator of the exhibition and the author of the accompanying text is Marko Golub, and the design of the exhibition is signed by Ivona Đogić Đurić.
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