Ivan Civic - The artist superhero - limited edition gold

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the artist superhero - limited edition gold
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes, 2008

Performed: May 10th, 2008
Exhibition: Spacetacular, Tashkeel arts center, Dubai, UAE
Curator: Sam Bardaouil / Emanuela Nobile Mino

I was producing "limited edition gold" artist superhero gold blocks, like a factory, for the entire run of the performance. Behind my back was a video projection of several things... one of them was Dubai's skyline, which I covered up with golden canvases... the canvases themselves had gold written over them in gold and sprayed over with gold too.. GOLD GOLD GOLD!!!!! I executed the entire performance in a total artist superhero manner and each time a new gold painting was ready, I assumed a typical comic superhero position in front of the video projection and pop-up fields appeared on the video, like in the comics, where you usually read: "POW" or "BOOM"... eccetera... only this time there were no "pows" and "booms"... the fields remained empty and the only thing filling them was the "gold" writing on my canvases.

This performance is divided into two parts. After the wall is almost totally covered up with artist superhero gold canvases, I continue producing "LIMITED GOLD" and proceed through a self transformation... the gold that covered my video projection now starts covering me too. I become one with my artist superhero video... I wear my golden canvas like a tin soldier uniform. I assume the shape of an abstract robot.

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Education

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