A4 01st edition / Antonio Kutleša and Jurica Mlinarec
Solo exhibition
A solo exhibition of this year's winners of the competition for participation in the 1st edition of the program called A4, announced by the Museum of Fine Arts in Split.
ABOUT THE "A4" PROJECT
A4 connects graduate students of the Academy of Arts in Split, the Academy of Arts in Osijek, the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka and the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, in cooperation with students of the graduate study of Art History of Croatian universities. The aim of the program is to connect future artists and future art historians from all over Croatia within the organization of the exhibition.
The work of Antonio Kutleša, which will be presented at the exhibition A4 01 EDITION, was created under the mentorship of red.prof.art. Ines Krasić, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb.
The curatorial work of Jurica Mlinarac was mentored by dr.sc. Lovorka Magaš Bilandžić, Assistant Professor at the Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
FROM THE PREFACE OF THE EXHIBITION
"When we talk about the human body, there is an unquestionable fascination with it throughout the history of art, and we can include the work of Antonio Kutleša in this continuity. Noticing the increasingly intense interventions that expose the human body in order to maximize its strength and the possibility of adaptation to new conditions, the artist problematizes the limits of such perfection by assembling a new body using three-dimensional printing technologies.
The artist uses this work to explore the achievements of a utopian vision of the technological superstructure of the human body in order for it to respond to tasks in both the real and virtual spheres. He creates a kind of visual oxymoron to emphasize the antithetical positions of the organic and the mechanical, in which humanoid shapes created by collage of various animal forms are joined by modern means of surveillance (cameras) that appropriate the position of the eyes in the artist's modular human body. The starting point is the graphics transformed into a series of objects that form a modular body in human size, created with the help of a three-dimensional printing device. By entering the graphic record into the software, the artist is enabled to rotate and perceive the former two-dimensional shape from multiple perspectives, emancipating new views."
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Jurica Mlinarec
BIOGRAPHIES OF THE AUTHOR
Antonio Kutleša was born in 1993 in Zagreb. He graduated in 2012 from the Department of Graphic Arts at the School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb. In the same year, he enrolled in the undergraduate university study of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, which he completed with a commendation from the Academy of Fine Arts for successful work during the academic year 2014/2015. In the same year, he enrolled in the graduate university study of Fine Arts, with the main art subject Graphics and Applied Graphics, in the class of Professor Ines Krasić. He graduated in 2018 with excellent results and an award from the Academic Council of the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb among the most successful graduates, obtaining the title of Master of Fine Arts Education.
During his studies, he exhibited his works as part of ArtJAM at the Croatian Association of Artists, and as part of the 4th Croatian Congress on Prevention and Rehabilitation in Psychiatry with international participation, entitled Depression in the Century of the Mind. Among the most important group exhibitions, he exhibited at the 7th Croatian Triennial of Printmaking.
Jurica Mlinarec was born in 1991 in Zagreb. He is a graduate student of art history and English studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He interned at Lauba, and translated on a number of projects such as the official catalogues for the presentation of Croatia at the Biennial of Design in London and the D-Day International Design Festival. He is currently involved in the work of the SC Gallery in Zagreb as a translator. He collaborated on the sixth edition of the Device_art festival, and is currently participating in Short Circuit, an interdisciplinary project of the association KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art practice.
The exhibition in the Šira Gallery can be viewed until March 21, 2019.
The exhibition is financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and the City Office for Culture of the City of Zagreb.
