Goran Tomcic

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Zero Hour Nine A.M". (2007)

Sculpture: Plexiglas, Two Wooden Stools, Cardboard Boxes, Heavy Metal Films, Decorative Bows
Dimensions: 1m in diameter x 3m high

“Zero hour nine a.m.” is sculptural installation made as a commentary on “rock n’ roll fantasy”. The title itself is a line taken from Elton John’s song, “Rocket man” (“Zero hour nine a.m./And I’m gonna be high as a kite by then”).
The sculpture focuses on the false promise behind the idea of clubbing. One of the main characteristics of the drug-centric culture of clubs is the feeling of repetition, where the music is remixed to the point of an ecstatic rhythm. “Zero hour nine a.m.” portrays the fragility of this feeling. The sculpture is built as a “house of cards”; each empty box is balancing the other. If the clubbers aim to “get high”, this means they must “come down”. The boxes are decorated with holographic films and decorative iridescent bows as “something beautiful”: a beautiful, ephemeral, four-sided emptiness.

CV
Goran Tomcic is an artist and a poet. In 1996 he graduated from Bard College (M.A. in Curatorial Studies), and has been employed as a curator of contemporary art, and has written on art for various publications and catalogs. His poems appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including “Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn,” (NYU Press, 2007). Lives and works in Berlin.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 “A Shimmering Heart (Gold)”, RIGO Gallery, Novigrad, Croatia (cat.)
2009 “Passage”, Delikatessenhaus, Leipzig, Germany
2007 “Overlap”, The Windows at the Kimmel Center, NYU, New York, NY
2005 “A Shimmering Heart (Silver)”, Participant Inc., New York, NY
2004 “Kairos (Lost You Somewhere)”, Raccoon Space, Queens, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 “Polja sjec´anja/Fields of Memory,” curated by Jasna Gluic, MKC, Split, Croatia (cat.)
2007 “BoysCraft,” curated by Tami Katz-Freiman, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel (cat.)
2007 “Rock n’ Roll Fantasy,” curated by Daria Brit Shapiro, White Box, New York, NY
2007 “Goodbye 95 Rivington Street,” curated by Lia Gangitano, Participant, Inc., NY, NY
2007 “on spec: Diana Puntar, Goran Tomcic,” White Box, New York, NY
2007 “Silent Benefit Auction 2007,” White Box, New York, NY
2006 “Pom-pom Sky,” Carriage House, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
2006 “Sci-Fi Lullabies,” curated by Daria Brit Shapiro, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
2006 “Paperworks,” curated by Daria Brit Shapiro, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 “Body.City,” curated by Branko Francheschi, Gallery MC, New York, NY
2005 “Exploding Plastic Inevitable: 40 Fun Galleries,” Curated by Scenic,
Bergdorf Goodman Department Store, New York, NY
2005 “Suspended Ornament/Suspended Space,” Suite 106 Gallery, NY, NY
2004 “Art and Reconciliation,” Raccoon Space, Queens, NY
SELECTED ESEYS AND REVIEWS
2009 “Im Inneren der Diskokugel/Inside the Mirror Ball” by Susanne Altmann, catalogue text, Muzej-Museo Lapidarium, Rigo Galerry, Novigrad, Croatia
2009 “Polja sjec´anja/Fields of Memory” by Barbara Gaj, Kontura #103, Zagreb, Croatia
2009 “Uranjanje u polja sjec´anja” by V. Boz¹anic´ Serdar, Novi List, Rijeka, Croatia
2009 “Polja sjec´anja troje umjetnika” by A. Jerkovic´, Slobodna Dalmacija, Split, Croatia
2009 “Polja sjec´anja/Fields of Memory” by Jasna Gluic´, MKC, Split, Croatia (catalogue text, in Croatian and English)
2009 “Flexibel mit bunten Pom Poms,” by Meinhard Michael, Leipziger Volkszeitung, Leipzig, Germany (illustration)
2009 “Vom Verschwinden der Dinge,” by Rene Achilles, Leipziger Volkszeitung,
Leipzig, Germany (illustrations)
2009 “Passage: Goran-Tomcic-Ausstellung im Delikatessenhaus,” Redaktion, Leipziger Zeitung, Leipzig, Germany (illustration)
2008 “Where the boys are,” by Gil Goldfine, The Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem, Israel
2007 “Craftsmen in the Factory of Images,” by Tami Katz-Freiman, “BoysCraft” catalogue text, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel (illustrations)
2006 “The Fireplace Project: Edsel Williams’s Art Space, Kindred Spirits Find a New Haunt,”
by Susan M. Galardi, Vox Magazine #57 (illustration)
2005 “Goran Tomcic at Participant, Inc,” by Nick Stillman, (Critics’ Picks), artforum.comSELECTED GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2009 Artist in Residence, XO-P, Novigrad, Croatia
2007 Pollock-Krasner Grant, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NY
2006 Artist in Residence, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
2004 The Artists’ Fellowship Grant, The Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., NY
2000 Israeli Ministry of Culture, Israeli Consulate, in NY, NY
1996 The MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
1992 The MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NHPUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia