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Cartoons to shake up Sarajevo!
On a grey Berlin afternoon, I happened onto the unassuming stretch of Kopenickerstrasse where Galerie Zero is located after picking up a card on their current exhibition at another Mitte gallery. Doodled on the card graphic was the name of the show, No Sleep While Renewal Is On.
On Zero’s walls were a few eye-catching yet subtly-hued posters by Sarajevo designer Aleksandra Nina Knezevic. Playful and completely contemporary, some of the designs are actually promotional materials for a renewal projects spearheaded by young Bosnians. Connected to renewal projects organized by the Ask Sarajevo Foundation, Knezevic’s distinctly buoyant visual work has helped represent both the reconstruction of Youth House and the creation of a project called Art Kvart by Sarajevo’s kids under the banner of 'Renewal 2006'.
Other works in Knezevic’s exhibition at Zero maintain the easy, occasionally childlike air of her work for these youth projects, but are clearly meant to redirect her energies as a designer in a more openly communicative way. Having worked as a freelance designer, art director for a top Slovenian marketing firm and acting as the president of the Association of Applied Artists and Designers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Knezevic is clearly interested in bringing an international visual language to the youth of the world.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 | text by: Stephen Christian |
