Exploitation of the Dead Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb

The “Exploitation of the Dead“ Collection by the self-educated neo-avantgarde artist Mladen Stilinović was compiled in socialist Croatia in the period from 1984 to 1990. It is a cycle of paintings dealing with the theme of dispersal or disappearance of symbols, both those widely accepted, such as the Christian cross, as well as the symbols of the Yugoslav socialist period, such as the red star. The author detects changes that affected the socialist system at the symbolic level in the 1980s and puts them in the context of art in a subversive way by using ideological and political reality.

由自学成才的先锋派艺术家 Mladen Stilinović 所创作的“死者利用”系列作品，于1984年至1990年间在社会主义克罗地亚编纂而成。该系列画作探讨象征的消散或消失主题，包括广泛认可的象征，如基督教十字架，以及南斯拉夫社会主义时期的象征，如红星。作者在20世纪80年代对影响社会主义体系符号层面的变革进行了洞察，并通过利用意识形态与政治现实，以颠覆性的方式将这些变革置于艺术语境之中。