The world is trembling. Temperatures are soaring. Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones surge and sweep through cities and homes reducing them to ruins. Water levels are rising, flooding arable lands if not entire countries. Parched primary and secondary forests blaze and are reduced to ash. Eternal glaciers and the polar ice pack are melting in a deafening sound. Deserts are expanding inexorably. Humid areas are drying out. Animal species are becoming extinct by the thousands. What we call global warming or climate change or disruption is imposing itself like a long hellish season on earth. Despite the denial of some, there is no longer any doubt: human activity is indeed the cause of these
phenomena. Dates for a Subjective Timeline of the Climate Change consists of works that confront Radenko Milak’s unique black and white watercolours with Roman Uranjek’s cross motif collages. Each of the works refers to important historical events that reflect the relationship between the humanities and climate. (Christopher Yggdre)

Radenko Milak creates a space for a new way of looking by translating appropriated photographic motifs into watercolour. He modifies the formal pictorial language of source material found on the internet, in print media and films and therefore generates renewed interest in historical events. The preferred artistic media for his blackand-white series are generally watercolours, but he also works with painting, drawing, installations and animations. From 1999 to 2003, he studied at the Academy of Art at the University of Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 2003 to 2007, he studied at the Faculty of Fine Art at the University of Art Belgrade in Serbia.

Roman Uranjek was one of the founding members of the artist group «IRWIN» in Ljubljana in 1983. Alongside the music group Laibach, a theatre group and an office for graphic design, the «NSK» had a major influence on the cultural and political debate in Yugoslavia towards the end of the Tito era. In 2002, Uranjek started the project «At Least One Cross a Day After 1.1.2002», which has continued since then. For this group of works, he selects visual material from different arthistorical periods and combines them into collages in which the narrative structures and visual narrative modes of the avant-garde are thematized anew. The collaboration on «Dates» with Radenko Milak was initiated in 2015.

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