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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Vlado Martek started out as a poet and as he himself says he had been writing poems since he was fifteen because of girls. He studied literature and philosophy and occasionally showed interest in the visual arts. In 1974 he was ready to “leave books behind”. The poetry he was writing no longer satisfied him. Written on paper and left waiting to be printed one day it was a source of frustration for the impatient artist. He missed having a more direct contact with the audience. With his friends photographer ?eljko Jerman and then art student Boris Demur he undertook a night action where they displayed their works on urban poster sites under the railway bridge on Savska Street. Martek posted up one of his poems which for this occasion he had written on a large piece of paper. The intimate act of writing poetry suddenly found itself in a public space and confronted its author with passersby for the first time. This experience stimulated them and soon a larger gathering of artists took place. Inspired by what was happening on the art scenes in Zagreb and Belgrade ?eljko Jerman Mladen Stilinovic Vlado Martek Boris Demur Sven Stilinovic and Fedor Vucemilovic agreed to hold group actions motivated by the same desire to address the public directly on the street. The exhibition-actions they carried out as the Group of Six Artists in public spaces first at Zagreb’s public swimming area on the bank of the Sava River then in Novi Zagreb and in the centre of the Old Town at the Faculty of Philosophy Zagreb University as well as in other cities were the trigger for Martek. (LL)