{"id":1879,"date":"2026-01-08T16:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moadmdcedu.wpenginepowered.com\/events\/moad-talksivana-bagomagic-conceptualismand-the-work-of-art\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:38:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:38:44","slug":"moad-talksivana-bagomagic-conceptualismand-the-work-of-art","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/moad.mdc.edu\/es\/events\/moad-talksivana-bagomagic-conceptualismand-the-work-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivana Bago: Magic Conceptualism and the Work of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hreinn Fridfinnsson\u2019s work has often been described as \u201cRomantic Conceptualism.\u201d The term \u201cRomantic\u201d indicates his distance\u2014including his geopolitical, \u201cIcelandic\u201d distance\u2014from the presumed conceptualist norm. This lecture proposes another term, \u201cMagic Conceptualism,\u201d to argue that, for Fridfinnsson, art is the very medium of distance, a medium that points to what is not immediately present and graspable, or as he himself put it, that which is \u201celsewhere.\u201d It also contends that while magic and concept seem to mark two opposite ends of a linear narrative of the story of art, from cave paintings to conceptualism, their relation is, in fact, not a line, but a circle.<\/p>\n<p>Ivana Bago is an independent scholar, writer, and curator based in Zagreb. She holds a PhD in Art History and Visual Culture from Duke University and is the co-founder (with Antonia Majaca) of Delve\/Institute for Duration, Location and Variables (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.delve.hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.delve.hr<\/a>). She has published extensively on contemporary art, including Conceptual Art, the history of exhibitions and curating, performance, feminism, post-Yugoslav art, and post-1989 art historiographies. She is on the editorial board of the journal <em>ARTMargins<\/em><br \/>\nand is the recipient of the Igor Zabel Award Grant for 2020. She is currently working on her book <em>Yugoslav Aesthetics: Monuments to History\u2019s Bare Bones<\/em> and developing <em>Meeting Points: Documents in the Making<\/em>, a research and publishing project on Sanja Ivekovi\u0107\u2019s work and personal archive.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hreinn Fridfinnsson\u2019s work has often been described as \u201cRomantic Conceptualism.\u201d The term \u201cRomantic\u201d indicates his distance\u2014including his geopolitical, \u201cIcelandic\u201d distance\u2014from the presumed conceptualist norm. This lecture proposes another term, \u201cMagic Conceptualism,\u201d to argue that, for Fridfinnsson, art is the very medium of distance, a medium that points to what is not immediately present and graspable, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"content-migration-status":[],"event-month":[80],"event-year":[64],"mec_category":[58,53],"class_list":["post-1879","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-month-april","event-year-64","mec_category-moad-talks","mec_category-past"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ivana Bago: Magic Conceptualism and the Work of Art - Museum of Art &amp; Design<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/moad.mdc.edu\/es\/events\/moad-talksivana-bagomagic-conceptualismand-the-work-of-art\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ivana Bago: Magic Conceptualism and the Work of Art - Museum of Art &amp; Design\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hreinn Fridfinnsson\u2019s work has often been described as \u201cRomantic Conceptualism.\u201d The term \u201cRomantic\u201d indicates his distance\u2014including his geopolitical, \u201cIcelandic\u201d distance\u2014from the presumed conceptualist norm. 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