A4 0 edition

A4 is a national program that connects students of art academies and art history, conceived in cooperation with the previous participants of the Fast Forward / Tuesdays at the Gallery program. According to a public tender at the national level, which included students of the universities of Osijek, Rijeka, Split and Zagreb, pairs of artists and art historians were selected for the purpose of organizing an initial 0 exhibition that represents students of all universities. … Read More

Petra Orbanić and Marija Plečko: Natural Trajectories

"Often, in the moments when we were trying to explain our artistic instincts, we would say that everything we create is part of the process and that, as long as it lasts, we will last with it. In this process, there are phases that flow from one to another, gradually, non-violently, so that each subsequent one does not exclude the existence of the previous one. Every experience once gained cannot be ... Read More

Textilography – creation of a personal pattern

A project by students of the Department of Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts and students of the graduate study of Textile Design at the Faculty of Textile Technology, University of Zagreb. The idea of cooperation between students of graphic arts of the Academy of Fine Arts and students of textile design of the Faculty of Textile Technology was conceived as an exchange of ideas within the framework of realized workshops in the premises of the Department of Graphics and the Faculty of Textile Technology. The task of the students was to create their personal multiplicative pattern. The areas from which we started, graphics ... Read More

Mia Štark: Traces of Movement – Visualization and Processuality

From the studio to the dance studio and back, again Thinking about how to approach the work of Mia Štark from the position of a dramaturge, I wondered first of all about the author's intention to choose someone who is only an average observer when it comes to fine arts, and a professional viewer in the field of contemporary dance as the author of the text. At the beginning, it seemed to me that these two viewing spaces ... Read More

Ivana Pipal: What and how, and rarely why

"Gestalt therapy, developed in the 1940s by Fritz Perls and his wife Laura, is an existentialist and phenomenological approach based on the assumption that people should be understood in the context of their permanent relationship with the environment. The initial goal of therapy is to make the client aware of what he feels and does. The approach is phenomenological, because it is focused on the experience of a person's reality, and existentialist, because it is based on the idea of ... Read More

Davor Konjikušić: Highway

The motorway as an uninterrupted line, link, communication, symbol or one of the forms of continuity, is presented in this exhibition through a multimedia artistic range of heterogeneous political, historical, but also some completely personal positionings. However, it is not just any motorway, nor was it chosen as a motif primarily for visual reasons. Davor Konjikušić focuses his research in terms of meaning, experience and identity. Systematic research of the A3 motorway, ... Read More

Laura Barić: P is insecure R

The work "P is an uncertain R", as the name suggests, represents a specific view of symbols within everyday life. Starting with the language itself and deconstructing its purpose into visual symbols and specifics within their representation, whether it is letters, plastic or the body, the work deals with the recontextualization of overlooked concepts and things whose purpose we no longer question and which we approach ... Read More

Janko Ivčić:!!

To achieve communication necessarily means to use a certain sign system, such as pictorial or linguistic, and each sign used is a dualistic concept consisting of two interdependent parts. The Swiss linguist Saussure calls a physical object or concept a "signifier" that does not necessarily have to be in a close associative relationship with a certain "signified", i.e. mental concept, because every concept and association to which ... Read More

Strategies for Freedom-Presentation of Graphic Folders

Every artist has their own strategies for how to reach art. Strategies for finding an idea, strategies for the economy of the concept, strategies for the reasonableness of performance. Every work requires additional strategies; strategies for self-preservation, strategies against the loss of integrity, strategies for freedom. It is necessary to devise numerous strategies in order to fight for that small space of freedom in our own thoughts. So many strategies for, sometimes, only one ... Read More

Exhibition of OZAFIN students, Department of Animated Film

It is my great pleasure and pride to write a few words about the exhibition of student works of the Department of Animated Film and New Media of the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb, which is held in the inspiring space of the Šira Gallery. Our department is the youngest addition to the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, which celebrates its 110th anniversary this year. And while the Academy has reached the longest-lived ... Read More