That's What's Up!
If you know anything about the country across from Italy (the most common way to explain where Croatia is located), you鈥檙e likely familiar with two of these three statements. However, the third is rarely, if ever, heard. But, as we witness young Croatian artists making their mark on the global scene, this exhibition aims to shift the narrative further by introducing the works of some of the most exciting emerging international painters to the Croatian art crowd.
The region鈥檚 complex and intense socio-political situation significantly slowed the recognition and affirmation of local artists globally, as the split of the former federation and the wars that followed put everything on hold for over a decade. The reintegration into the dynamics of global life took a long time, and during all those years, generations of Croatian artists developed in a very particular setting. And as we see nowadays, those crippling circumstances transformed with time into an advantage and the foundation for distinctiveness. So, by exposing the next generations to some of the most remarkable works by their recognized peers from around the globe, That鈥檚 What鈥檚 Up! hopes to provide another link between local and global efforts.
Driven by this bloom of talents, Croatian-born and raised writer and curator Sa拧a Bogojev has curated an energizing and absorbing exhibition. In collaboration with the newly-established Trotoar Gallery in Zagreb, Croatia鈥檚 capital, they鈥檙e aiming to fuel the further development of the scene. By exploring the artists鈥� techniques, concepts, visual languages, and backgrounds, the exhibition offers a relevant selection of works for local artists and art enthusiasts alike. These include works nodding at pivotal moments in the history of painting (Van Minnen, Birns); works influenced by technology or contemporary aesthetics (Hofmann, Brawner); painterly languages that emphasize surface and texture (Cross, Lai, Ericsson, Ruiz, Santy); visuals that push reality to the edge of surrealism or even further (Scholl, Schuldt); or those where the rules of the material world and common sense are rendered irrelevant (Proux, Lundy).
As a milestone moment of sorts, the show鈥檚 idea is to motivate, inspire, and empower the local scene by showcasing some of the most exciting, outstanding, and masterful painters working today. Not in a presumptuous, 鈥渨e know better鈥� way, but by providing an insight into where painting is and/or can be taken by considering the selected works鈥� technical, thematic, and historical relevance. Aiming to bring a top-tier selection of painters to Croatia (or anywhere in the wider Eastern European region) for the first time, the exhibition delightfully announces 鈥� That鈥檚 What鈥檚 Up! (or To je to! in Croatian).
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If you know anything about the country across from Italy (the most common way to explain where Croatia is located), you鈥檙e likely familiar with two of these three statements. However, the third is rarely, if ever, heard. But, as we witness young Croatian artists making their mark on the global scene, this exhibition aims to shift the narrative further by introducing the works of some of the most exciting emerging international painters to the Croatian art crowd.
The region鈥檚 complex and intense socio-political situation significantly slowed the recognition and affirmation of local artists globally, as the split of the former federation and the wars that followed put everything on hold for over a decade. The reintegration into the dynamics of global life took a long time, and during all those years, generations of Croatian artists developed in a very particular setting. And as we see nowadays, those crippling circumstances transformed with time into an advantage and the foundation for distinctiveness. So, by exposing the next generations to some of the most remarkable works by their recognized peers from around the globe, That鈥檚 What鈥檚 Up! hopes to provide another link between local and global efforts.
Driven by this bloom of talents, Croatian-born and raised writer and curator Sa拧a Bogojev has curated an energizing and absorbing exhibition. In collaboration with the newly-established Trotoar Gallery in Zagreb, Croatia鈥檚 capital, they鈥檙e aiming to fuel the further development of the scene. By exploring the artists鈥� techniques, concepts, visual languages, and backgrounds, the exhibition offers a relevant selection of works for local artists and art enthusiasts alike. These include works nodding at pivotal moments in the history of painting (Van Minnen, Birns); works influenced by technology or contemporary aesthetics (Hofmann, Brawner); painterly languages that emphasize surface and texture (Cross, Lai, Ericsson, Ruiz, Santy); visuals that push reality to the edge of surrealism or even further (Scholl, Schuldt); or those where the rules of the material world and common sense are rendered irrelevant (Proux, Lundy).
As a milestone moment of sorts, the show鈥檚 idea is to motivate, inspire, and empower the local scene by showcasing some of the most exciting, outstanding, and masterful painters working today. Not in a presumptuous, 鈥渨e know better鈥� way, but by providing an insight into where painting is and/or can be taken by considering the selected works鈥� technical, thematic, and historical relevance. Aiming to bring a top-tier selection of painters to Croatia (or anywhere in the wider Eastern European region) for the first time, the exhibition delightfully announces 鈥� That鈥檚 What鈥檚 Up! (or To je to! in Croatian).
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