Marijan Crtalić, Danko Frisčić, Denis Krasković, Frane Rogić and Igor Zlobec belong to a wider circle of artists which began to hang out at the Academy in Zagreb and often organise common projects and group exhibitions in various combinations. At the same time, they conscientiously built their own individual careers. Most of these artists share a studio address, which has become a place of informal creative sociability. Recent collaborations include projects like the happening in the newly opened shopping centre in Zagreb, a video reconstruction of Doctor Tulips Anatomy Hour, as well as a big group show entitled Zeravica 2: Pepeo in the Bjelovar City Museum.

Each of these artists has individually achieved significant success at numerous artistic happenings, winning prizes at, for example, the Zagreb Salon and the Salon of Young Artists. Although they were educated in the classicaly media such as painting and sculpture, these artists on the whole express themselves through new media.

They are showing here recent works, and in this way the exhibition gives a faithful picture of that which is going on at the moment in the Zagreb contemporary art scene.

Marijan Crtalić

Marijan Crtalić presents a monumental work 'Artertainment - the courses and consequences of my understanding of life and art.' Through a series of 12 blown up photos we follow the artist's development from childhood to the present, and each of them bears one letter, which taken together spell out 'artertainment'. It starts with a black and white photo of a big ball and a small Crtalić, a little bit later, still in black and white, we see the artist's childhood alter ego, with long hair and short dress. Towards the end we see a gradual turning from innocent teenage dance to hard drinking and familiarity with serious artistic creation.

Danko Frisčić

Danko Frisčić's video works are pastiches of famous scenes from late night horror films, the frames of which repeat rythmically and ritually. He is drawn to the most unbelieveable, horrific and extreme moments of films that play up the dark side of the collective unconscious. Next to the video work and three large prints, Frisčić is also represented here by two new oil on canvas works, evidence of a revived of interest in painting.

Denis Krasković

Along side the sculpture 'Dada Turban', Denis Krasković also exhibits 'Rose Children' - a white wooden box with blue needles, reminiscent of a porcupine, from which the voices of well-known cartoon characters emerge. In the series of photos 'Ostriches to Africa' he points to the bizarre phenomenon of ostrich breeding here, their inhuman treatment, and he draws the analogy with the status of artists in society.

Frane Rogić

Frane Rogić exhibits the video 'Meantime', which features material taken during an artists's visit to the former penal colony of Goli Otok (Naked Island). Visual distortions on the recording correspond to the fact that the idea of Goli Otok, the memory of it, as well as the artists's camera, are in the process of falling apart.

Igor Zlobec

Igor Zlobec presents his controversial website 'Zlobecsportamateurs', which lies on the border between art and pornography, as well as several signed digital prints. 'Google Search' brings up a list of pages, as a result of searching for a specific term, and illustrates Zlobec tactic of smuggling pornogaphy into art, but also art into the world of pornography.