type of spectator it addressed to and what message could it give to
Serbian “liberated” women and spectators. That is why this assemblage consisting of a pair of shoes, a stand, two pencil-sharpeners and
a base, juggles with New York (Manhattan) as fetish. Small, ordinary
fetishism where two identical objects in a from of (New York) skyscrapers are sold as a “New York City Souvenir”. Sky-scrapers/pencilsharpeners that remind us that the idolatry of New York is not new.
That it has a long history. At least in Belgrade, where the pencil-sharpeners were found on a flea market. Also, the pencil-sharpeners/skyscrapers or sky-scrapers/pencil-sharpeners with their declared phallic
shape (first noticed by feminist lectures) continue to underline the
fetish status of the whole piece.
Stand. The second part is a stand and a pair of shoes. The
stand certainly recalls famous minimal sculpture of, for example,
Donald Judd, that was, for a certain period, admired without reserve, by an entire artistic Belgrade. This work was also most probably made a fetish of its own in these circles. On a stand there are
shoes. High heel shoes that are never an ordinary dressing, let alone
consuming object. Shoes whose identity continuously stimulates
thoughts, not only from Freud and surrealism and beyond.
“… there is nothing really to say about this work…..”
B3. The City as Is.
The work is in wood. Just one example, a unique object. Still
nature in a form of a shirt “as from the package”: ordinate, folded,
unpacked. Of course, what is immediately visible is that this piece
does not concludes itself in naturalism. On the contrary. It ironically
juggles with the principle of the similarity, look alike. Made of wood,
the relief is only partially coloured. Of uncertain sculptural identity,
it is not an assemblage, it is not a relief. Ironical expression that plays
with the difference between the easily recognisable, common and
well known. It reassesses the common ground of the observer.
Caranović gives the following explanation: “This work was
made in the beginning of the ‘90s when here the new generation of
politicians was made also. It is the belief of our people that it is better to wear a white shirt that to plough the land. It represented not
Sex and the City, 2003.
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