BUDAPEST.- Mladen Stilinović (1947, Belgrade) starting his career in the early seventies, is one of the most significant representatives of Central European neo-avant-garde art. The retrospective show in Ludwig Museum is his first exhibition of such large scale in Hungary as well as in the region, presenting his most important installations, collages, photographs, artist’s books, films, paintings and objects. Most of his films are shown in an exhibition for the first time. Throughout his diversified work, Stilinović explores ideological signs and their social aspects. His works criticise the language of politics, the institutional hierarchy within art, and the role of money and labour in society using the devices of irony, paradox and manipulation. From 1975 he was member of The Group of Six Artists with his brother and friends, whose outside exhibitions-actions were an occasion for talk about art with a pu