Neue Slowenische Kunst
ノイエ・スロヴェニッシェ・クンスト / 1984– / Style / Modern and Contemporary Art Movements
A Slovenian collective in former Yugoslavia whose music, painting, theater, and state-like documents critically reenacted totalitarian, religious, national, and avant-garde signs through over-identification and severe black-red-gold monumentality.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Monumental symmetry in black, red, and gold
- Eagles, crosses, gears, mountains, and flags as power emblems
- Quotation of classical painting, Socialist Realism, and avant-garde imagery
- Industrial music, uniform, manifesto, and state documents as one total work
Best used for
- Critiquing power by over-performing its visual language instead of simply standing outside it
- Uniting music, stage, graphics, and exhibition as a fictional institution
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Separate monumental serif capitals from small bureaucratic document type.
- Composition
- Place emblem and figure on a central axis, tightening authority with symmetrical frame, flags, and dark space.
- Material
- Use black cloth, metal, oil-paint-like print, red flags, and matte gold with substantial weight.
- Caution
- Do not use totalitarian signs as unexplained decoration. Cite every source and state the former Yugoslav and over-identification contexts.
- Further study
- Laibach, IRWIN and the theatre of the Sisters of Scipion Nasice / retro-avant-garde and over-identification / NSK State in Time
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- Constructivism (構成主義)Shared effects: Rebellion / Exhilaration.Compare Neue Slowenische Kunst and Constructivism
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