Braco Dimitrijević

Braco Dimitrijević is one of the first conceptual artists to reflect on our relationship with history in general terms. As early as the 1960s he developed the idea of “post-history,” later theorised in his Tractatus Post Historicus in 1976. Contemporary with postmodernism, Dimitrijević’s post-historical condition is characterised by the coexistence of diversity, the multitude of viewpoints, and the pluralism of truths. “In reality, chance is hidden determinism, as nothing really happens by chance, everything needs to be seen from a cosmic perspective”, explains the artist. “This is demonstrated by the many errors of history, which pushes people to the side-lines as though they were “passers-by”, to then re- propose them as heroes. One only has to think of Kafka, El Greco forgotten for 300 years, Van Gogh and many others.” For Dimitrijević, therefore, time does not flow linearly from past to future but the events of the present constantly rewrite the past, post-history emphasises the reversible and multidirectional nature of time. In this exhibition, his installation Heralds of Post History tells the stories of reinterpretations and revisitations, as each new work rewrites art history anew.