This catalogue presents the exhibition Inexplicable Presence (Curator’s Working Place) curated by Igor Zabel at Ljubljana’s Moderna galerija/Museum of Modern Art in 1997 and at the Celje Gallery of Contemporary Art in 1998.
Žerovc examines curatorship in its broader social, political and economic contexts, as well as in relation to the profound changes that have taken place in the art field over the last century.
The book offers a collection of urgencies and agencies in art history, art writing, and art and cultural production from across this cultural and political geography.
Igor Zabel kept a journal on his business trips. The notebooks and planners in Igor Zabel’s heritage contain diary entries hidden among his schedules, lecture outlines, interview cues, directories, etc.
This book brings forward Zabel’s extraordinary analytical and emphatic thinking and writing on modern and contemporary art from Socialist Realism and Conceptual Art to Post-Modernism and 1990s art, particularly in Slovenia and Eastern Europe.
The aim of this book is to reflect upon the theories and approach pursued by Igor Zabel in his critical writings, curatorial practices and European exchange initiatives following the fall of the Berlin Wall.