Artissima 2025

Marko Tadić
Microcosmos
Curated by Marco Scotini

For the 2025 edition of Artissima, TROTOAR presents a monographic booth dedicated to Croatian artist Marko Tadić (b. 1979), curated by Marco Scotini. Titled Microcosmos, the site-specific presentation gathers new works conceived especially for the fair, spanning drawing, collage, objects, and spatial installation—all emblematic of Tadić’s imaginative and reflective practice.

Set within a carefully composed architectural display, the booth becomes a visual archive — a museum box within museum walls — where memory, modernist utopias, and reimagined histories converge. Through the use of layered panels, the transformation of found materials into intimate assemblages, and the deliberate positioning of sculptural elements, the installation invites quiet, critical reflection on how we construct — and deconstruct — our collective memory.

By shifting the scale of representation and employing miniaturization, Tadić transforms fragments and remnants into Benjaminian “collective products” — objects that simultaneously evoke play and preserve their documentary resonance. By creating his spacially sensitive environments, he offers a liberated perspective on a broader history, as noted by Marco Scotini:

“Marko Tadić’s work rereads the history of Yugoslavian socialist modernism by means of a comparison with the practices of the great authors who were producing at the end of the 1950s in Croatia, amongst whom were the avant-garde designer, sculptor, and architect Vjenceslav Richter (1917–2002) and the filmmaker and artist Vladimir Kristl (1923–2004) of the Zagreb School of Animation and Gorgona, acknowledged as one of the cornerstones of the European environment. Using a methodology that tries to “make History starting from the waste of History”—as Walter Benjamin would have said, quoting Goncourt—Tadić identifies, from within the inert residues of memory, an active potential that can be used to reread and generate new possibilities for narration.” 

Press:
Artribune, Artissima 2025 in Turin: the must-see stands at Europe’s most contemporary art fair [Link]
ContemporaryLynx, 9 Highlights from the Leading Italian Art Fair [Link]