Not to compromise his authority in front of the crew who would not understand that even a sailor feels the need for artistic expression, Zlatan Dumanic – releasing banked up energy and relieving psychological plights that define his hypersensual nature – drawing and writing during his voyages (most often using a blue ball-point pen) on […] Više
Davor Mezak selects everyday objects and stores them into the gallery space; “white cube” is a neutral, white exhibition area, backdrop “staging/mise en scene”, being not just passive envelope of “things “, but treated by the author as a “cohesive environment” and a “body” with multiple perspectives. Gallery is becoming a simulacrum of a flat […] Više
The exhibition “Minute of silence” results from an appeal to the artists to react to the moments in their lives/experience when they had to, by their own will or decision or forced by circumstances, draw away from the past, go on, leave something behind. Connotations that we discussed varied from the intimate, sometimes even tragic […] Više
Unstable Equilibrium There are numerous aspects in the works Burning Boots and Defining Moments that unify them: the territory in which the videos were filmed (the river Lika in Croatia); the use of natural elements (water and fire); the metaphor concerning the search for balance in relation to the social, cultural, or psychological nature […] Više
The central theme of Manfred Willmann’s photographic cycles “Das Land” (1981.-1993.), “Oman” (1997.) and “Japanese Food” (2000.), simultaneously shown in Zagreb, are registration, objectivity and visualization of aspects and manifestations of human relations, surroundings and immediate environment, all that encloses people in social and natural landscape where they dwell and act – in their most […] Više
Creating one after another painting through past years I became aware that I was painting what they imposed to me. In order to break free from this conditioned state, I started to place my paintings into different situations, thus creating new states for them. The space of the painting started to absorb the outside elements. […] Više
