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MOON Martina Zelenika

Zagreb, Croatia

Collage, Conceptual art, Drawing, Installation, Mixed media, Photography, Video • Born in Croatia • Studied at Academy of Fine Arts and Design University Ljubljana, Slovenia

Published  22/01/2018

seeking the universal essence beyond the horizon

An interdisciplinary artist with a unique artistic expression including the realization of artistic works with innovative interdisciplinary concepts and projects in which we can observe a new approach in questioning of today’s modern society. Artist Moon challenges time and space through science and spirituality. Her art makes a subtle impact on human awareness and individual self-recognition by considering an all incorporating image of the...

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An interdisciplinary artist with a unique artistic expression including the realization of artistic works with innovative interdisciplinary concepts and projects in which we can observe a new approach in questioning of today’s modern society. Artist Moon challenges time and space through science and spirituality. Her art makes a subtle impact on human awareness and individual self-recognition by considering an all incorporating image of the world where we exist. Her current research is looking at communication fields, sound visualization and meta-language. Following artworks are mostly from the year 2016 and 2017.

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Artist Moon rethinks futurity and auto-reflects art tactical goals unfolding the future that the human cannot think but should belong to. Her ‘cosmogenic ecosophy’ aims to abstain from alienated capitalist reality and to recreate extra social condition by finding new visual combinations (deliberately not much appealing ones) and perceptual gateways/obstructions. Thus, her art pieces act as some sort of stimuli ie. reminders of what we where and where we are to go. Known physicality subtracted, imaginary potential extended. And we feel estranged. This strategy is quite present in her performative media work "Tab_letter" synthesizing new media, music and language systems or analogue spatial drawings "Imprints outside the rules" tackling the posthuman condition.

25 years after the introduction of the WWW, some state that the Information Age is coming to an end. It is followed by what we could call Experience Age. So, where are we now, confronted with the changing context of our interactions and global neoliberal stratospheres? The attitude of Martina Zelenika and her chameleonic art projects strive to shape different art devices/environments for somewhat different interactions. Outside of given informational accumulations and comfort boxes. A closer overview of the titling of Martina Zelenika’s art projects implies the heterogeneous, transmedia and interdisciplinary character of her work, as well as the possible postinternet interpretational frame. Here are some mentions: New Europe (the sound of mineral stones), Architecture of the Universe (photo collages), Imprints outside the rules (large analogue drawings), Tab_letter (innovative multidisciplinary project), Virtual__station (Net Art), etc. Hence, this multi-visual artist, based in Zagreb, and formed in graphics and new media in Zagreb and Ljubljana, with each and every recent work, engages innovative technological possibilities and digital art tools in order to translate and resist the complacency of the present society and try to overcome our general human condition.

( review: Ivana Mestrov, art historian and curator, Paris 2016)
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MOON Martina Zelenika
sound visualization research project META-SIGNAL SONAR SYSTEM ( MSSS ), 2017 (Photography: MOON)

sound visualization research project META-SIGNAL SONAR SYSTEM ( MSSS ), 2017 (Photography: MOON)

META-SIGNAL SONAR SYSTEM (MSSS) project, analogue drawings, graphite pencils on canvas, 200 x90 cm each, 2017 (Photography: MOON)

META-SIGNAL SONAR SYSTEM (MSSS) project, analogue drawings, graphite pencils on canvas, 200 x90 cm each, 2017 (Photography: MOON)

Artist MOON in her Studio 1; META-SIGNAL SONAR SYSTEM (MSSS) project, analogue drawings, graphite pencils on canvas, 200 x90 cm each, 2017, Photography: Damir Žižić

Artist MOON in her Studio 1; META-SIGNAL SONAR SYSTEM (MSSS) project, analogue drawings, graphite pencils on canvas, 200 x90 cm each, 2017, Photography: Damir Žižić

MOON Studio 1

MOON Studio 1

drawing-collage in a process of making, gold pancils on golden paper 230g, MOON Studio 1

drawing-collage in a process of making, gold pancils on golden paper 230g, MOON Studio 1

drawing-collages in a process of making, MOON Studio 1

drawing-collages in a process of making, MOON Studio 1

MOON Studio 1

MOON Studio 1

alphabet letters as musical notes - TAB_LETTER project, Slovenian and Croatian flags "Ode to Humanity" written with TAB_LETTER elements / digital print on fine poliester textil, 140 x 160 cm, 140 x 130 cm

alphabet letters as musical notes - TAB_LETTER project, Slovenian and Croatian flags "Ode to Humanity" written with TAB_LETTER elements / digital print on fine poliester textil, 140 x 160 cm, 140 x 130 cm

ballet dancer and Slovenian flag "Ode to Humanity" written with TAB_LETTER elements

ballet dancer and Slovenian flag "Ode to Humanity" written with TAB_LETTER elements

alphabet letters as musical notes - TAB_LETTER project, French flag "Ode to Humanity" written with TAB_LETTER elements / / digital print on fine poliester textil, 140 x 70 cm

alphabet letters as musical notes - TAB_LETTER project, French flag "Ode to Humanity" written with TAB_LETTER elements / / digital print on fine poliester textil, 140 x 70 cm

TAB_LETTER project Ode to Humanity, French music collaboration

TAB_LETTER project Ode to Humanity, French music collaboration

TAB_LETTER project Ode to Humanity, Slovenian music collaboration

TAB_LETTER project Ode to Humanity, Slovenian music collaboration

TAB_LETTER project Ode to Humanity, Croatian music collaboration

TAB_LETTER project Ode to Humanity, Croatian music collaboration

CRATER 05_10.16 and CRATER 04_9.16, large drawings, 2016

CRATER 05_10.16 and CRATER 04_9.16, large drawings, 2016

CRATER 05_10.16, black india ink on kunstdruck paper 240g, 280×200 cm ( 8 x B1 ), 2016

CRATER 05_10.16, black india ink on kunstdruck paper 240g, 280×200 cm ( 8 x B1 ), 2016

CRATER 05_10.16, black india ink on kunstdruck paper 240g, 280×200 cm ( 8 x B1 ), 2016

CRATER 05_10.16, black india ink on kunstdruck paper 240g, 280×200 cm ( 8 x B1 ), 2016

INFINITUM, photo collage (photograph, archival paper), 30 x 40 cm, 2016

INFINITUM, photo collage (photograph, archival paper), 30 x 40 cm, 2016

ALPHA MATRIX, photo collage (photograph, archival paper), 90 x 30 cm, 2016

ALPHA MATRIX, photo collage (photograph, archival paper), 90 x 30 cm, 2016

OMEGA SPACE OF THE HUMPBACK WHALE, photo collage (photograph, archival paper), 90 x 30 cm, 2016

OMEGA SPACE OF THE HUMPBACK WHALE, photo collage (photograph, archival paper), 90 x 30 cm, 2016

POINT OF CREATION, photo collage (photograph, archival paper), 90 x 30 cm, 2016

POINT OF CREATION, photo collage (photograph, archival paper), 90 x 30 cm, 2016

MOON Studio 2

MOON Studio 2

stone mineral dust, MOON Studio 2

stone mineral dust, MOON Studio 2

reliefs in preaparation, MOON Studio 2

reliefs in preaparation, MOON Studio 2

"NEW EUROPE" installation set up for photo shoots on the summer solstice 2016, MOON Studio 2

"NEW EUROPE" installation set up for photo shoots on the summer solstice 2016, MOON Studio 2

“NEW EUROPE” photograph, format 100 x 150 cm, 2016 © MOON

“NEW EUROPE” photograph, format 100 x 150 cm, 2016 © MOON

“NEW EUROPE” photograph, each format 100 x 150 cm, 2016 © MOON

“NEW EUROPE” photograph, each format 100 x 150 cm, 2016 © MOON

NEW EUROPE sound installation set up, 2017 Touch Me Festival Zagreb

NEW EUROPE sound installation set up, 2017 Touch Me Festival Zagreb

NEW EUROPE sound installation set up, 2017 Touch Me Festival Zagreb

NEW EUROPE sound installation set up, 2017 Touch Me Festival Zagreb

NEW EUROPE sound installation

The video represents NEW EUROPE sound research art installation with artist MOON, the author and narrator of the artwork. Artist MOON gives an explanation about the meaning of this complex (multi layered) art project and a research process.

The video has been recorded 2017 at Touch Me Festival, "The invisible around us", curator Monica Bello, head of Arts at CERN
www.kontejner.org/en/project/touch-me-festival-2017-invisible-around-us

TAB_LETTER - Ode to Humanity - FRENCH COLLABORATION

French/Croatian music collaboration, Institut Français de Croatie, Médiathèque, 2016
Musicians approached the TAB graphical score with their unique freestyle guided interpretation including recitals of the poem “Ode to Humanity” in French and Croatian language. “Ode to Humanity” in the French language, music performance with: Jelena Rajcevic – percussion&vocal, Marko Rukavina – contrabass, Miro Manojlovic – vibraphone, Niksa Marinovic – guitar&vocal, Tena Novak – violin&vocal.
http://www.tabletter-project.martinazelenika.com/

TAB_LETTER - Ode to Humanity - SLOVENIAN COLLABORATION

Slovenian music collaboration, multimedia center KID KIBLA Maribor Slovenia, 2013
Cameron Bobro, a micro-tonal theoretician and opera singer and Peter Tomaž Dobrila president of KIBLA center approached the graphic score of Martina MOON Zelenika as if it were written in the medieval notation of “neumes”, in which pitches are not fixed according to some mathematical standard, but shown relative to one another in both height (higher, lower, pitches) and duration (shorter, longer, notes). players: Cameron Bobro - clarinet, Peter Tomaž Dobrila - Turkish oud
http://www.tabletter-project.martinazelenika.com/

What sounds, scents and sights do you encounter while in your studio?

Ambiental digital sound, deep progressive electronica, avan-garde jazz or classical music. Fine incense, sunrise and moonrise are on my sight.

What is your favourite material to work with? How has your use of it evolved throughout your practice?

Graphite pencils. analogue drawing is the most important medium for my intimate expression and I find it extremely important for my developing.

What themes do you pursue?

Universality in communication fields, visualization of universal sound, energy phenomenon conducted to Universe and human existence.

If you could install your art absolutely anywhere, where would that be?

Saatchi Gallery London, and on the moon of course.

If you weren´t an artist, what would you be doing?

The same.

What are your favourite places besides your studio?

Forest.


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