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Bob Anzlovar

Bob Anzlovar (°1961, Wichita Falls, United States) is an artist who works in a variety of media. By demonstrating the omnipresent lingering of a ‘corporate world’, Anzlovar tries to create works in which the actual event still has to take place or just has ended: moments evocative of atmosphere and suspense that are not part of a narrative thread. The drama unfolds elsewhere while the build-up of tension is frozen to become the memory of an event that will never take place.

His artworks are given improper functions: significations are inversed and form and content merge. Shapes are dissociated from their original meaning, by which the system in which they normally function is exposed. Initially unambiguous meanings are shattered and disseminate endlessly. By putting the viewer on the wrong track, he creates with daily, recognizable elements, an unprecedented situation in which the viewer is confronted with the conditioning of his own perception and has to reconsider his biased position.

His work urge us to renegotiate art as being part of a reactive or – at times – autistic medium, commenting on oppressing themes in our contemporary society. By rejecting an objective truth and global cultural narratives, his works references post-colonial theory as well as the avant-garde or the post-modern and the left-wing democratic movement as a form of resistance against the logic of the capitalist market system.

His works demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and often tells a story about the effects of global cultural interaction over the latter half of the twentieth century. It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own ‘cannibal’ and ‘civilized’ selves. Bob Anzlovar currently lives and works in Boulder.

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Someone has probably done a study about the personality insights that can be gleaned by one’s choice of calendar: Was it a freebie from the bank with cityscape or wildlife pictures? Or a garage featuring cute girls draped over shiny cars? Maybe a series of paintings, orhotos featuring a person or pkace?

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Shocker. It was even more shocking to me because, while he was on his way down to the Springs, a phone in our house rang. Yes, we were one of the people that he called on his way to his final scene.

Did we have any idea that he was going to do this? Nope. When we spoke to him on the phone, he said he was going away and we probably wouldn't see him again. In 20/20 hindsight, maybe we missed a signal, but people don't go off and do this kind of thing. Sure, there have been a number of incidents like this, but in a nation of 300 million people it's a VERY SMALL minority who go off the rails and do this sort of thing. Most people who have guns are responsible with them.