White Cube Gallery - TARWUK: ‘Posadila sam kost u zimskom vrtu’
White Cube Gallery Mason’s Yard presents the first UK exhibition by artist duo TARWUK titled ‘Posadila sam kost u zimskom vrtu’. TARWUK, made up of Bruno Pogačnik Tremow and Ivana Vukšić, works as a single entity, creating an installation comprising a new group of sculptures, paintings and works on paper. The exhibition’s title, which loosely translates to ‘I planted a bone in the winter garden’, is a poetic statement that reflects the artists’ point of departure: the dichotomy of nature in its unbridled state and the cultivation of an ordered ‘garden’. In taking the garden as a symbol of man’s labour and innate struggle – as object and ornament, enclosure and stage – the gardener, or artist, becomes the caretaker of a subconscious terrain.
TARWUK form part of a generation who came of age during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Though now living and working in New York, the artists’ practice can be understood within the context of the aspirations, struggles and eventual dissolution of the former Yugoslavian state, and its elusive artistic avant-garde. Combining disparate visual languages and painterly styles to make subtle historical connections, TARWUK deploy numerous visible and invisible references to create multi-disciplinary micro-worlds, a dynamic site of collaboration and exchange.
‘Posadila sam kost u zimskom vrtu’ exhibits at White Cube’s Mason's Yard location between 1 February – 18 March 2023