Ivan Latin

Untitled
2008
temporary intervention into the space

Ivan Latin makes an intervention into a segment of the round path in front of the Artists’ House, pulling out of the ground the cobbles from which the path is made. He arranges the cobbles into a low wall, which functions as a new structure in the space, some obstacle or barricade as it were. After the conclusion of the Youth Salon, he will deconstruct the wall and restore the path to its original condition.
“My intervention is a reminiscence, a reference to 1968 and to a particular moment in the turbulence of the time, when in Paris, on the day of the biggest protest, a mass of some twenty thousand members of the public retreated in front of the police into the Latin Quarter and built barricades at the entrances into the quarter from the granite cobbles that this part of the town is paved with. The wall that I put up in front of the Mosque is the remainder of these barricades. An artefact of a manner and a synthesis too. The dialectical relation of this little wall with the barricades lies in the analysis of the manner. Rebellion against repression, in the form of civil revolutions, construction is based on deconstruction, but becomes (and perhaps remains) a deconstruction itself.
My intervention is also based on deconstruction, but in the way it makes its statement it turns into synthesis. It wants a revolution of non-violence. A revolution by example.” (I. L.)

Ivan Latin (1981, Zagreb, HR) He is ABD in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he lives and works.