Removing one element from the poster after it is fully finalized makes the difference. Disparity, collapse of elements due to composition instability, grammatical malfunction; unnecessary comma, non-aligned text block, empty space at once. Something is missing. The element wasn’t moved during the creation phase to some other location, so that the ‘composition’ would still be aligned. The element was, in reality, simply removed, deleted, 70 years later.
The deletion of the element was done on six posters from the collection of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka. There’s still the original year written on the posters, which points to the historical significance of events and the poster itself. Appealing visuals are the first to attract attention, and the poster by the size of its typography gives importance to the name of the exhibiting artist. The venue of the exhibition is written in slightly smaller or equally large typography.
At Korzo street 24, Mali Salon, since its opening in 1949, was an integral part of the then Fine Arts Gallery, later the Modern Gallery, and lately of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. The specificity of the particular gallery space was the position on the main pedestrian zone of Rijeka, and apart from its attractive location, it was one of the most significant and visited gallery spaces in the city. In September 2019, Mali Salon gallery ceased to exist due to the cancellation of the lease of the premises, which is legally owned by Croatian Radio-Television (HRT). As a reason for taking over the space, HRT cites the relocation of the space to a TV studio to monitor the European Capital of Culture program.
The work was made within the workshop led by David Maljković and Ivana Meštrov, as part of David Maljković’s exhibition With the collection in April 2020 at Museum of Contemporary Art in Rijeka.