Category: Cycles

Letter as picture? Just as I painted “Pages” from words and fragmented text, so by the repetition of inscriptions of the same letter, I create diversity (of execution) in monotony (of content). (2023; from manuscript)

The title of the cycle “Paper and Scissors” is derived from the title of the book” Silk, Scissors”, by Irena Vrkljan, the content of which is the life of the author. By interventions with scissors into catalogues, invitations and posters of my own exhibitions I create new pictures. These collages have a double authenticity, two…

While I was working on the “Studies”, in a deficit or surplus of concentration, the painting “Martek” was produced, an acrylic on paper, sized 240 × 320 mm. The previously painted red ground had for me an association with the red of Vlado Martek, and further interventions in black and white were a clear dedication…

During our training in the Academy of Fine Arts, my fellow printmakers and I were familiarised with the laws of typography, to equip us to make a decent layout of a printed text, enabling the reader to read without any effort. Truth to tell, in my paintings I do not abide by these laws, rather…

My B1 format collages are an echo of the real world, of urban, industrialised society. Sometimes there are details of buildings, of city walls, sometimes there are ground plans of whole megalopolises, and sometimes they are abstractions. Playing with black and white fields smaller and larger squares, I seek my perfect form for just it:…

Scissors cut magazines, pen cut into paper, deeply and tenderly, alternately, and a spatial white world of letters in which I am still moving today opened up. (2011; published in Vjesnik, Zagreb October 1 to 2, 2011, and in the book “Pogled iznutra. Čitati s razumijevanjem” / “View from Inside. Close Reading”, Zagreb 2017)

In the “Grisailles” series in some of the paintings I apply the graphic procedures of polishing and erasing colours and so on. Wanting to preserve the visually self-sufficient grounds so created, I give up on the writing of a “wall” of letters, and decided to apply a single word or phrase: “seminatio”, “récolte”, “pepeljasto tlo”[ashy…

In the “Blocks” series, I deal with relations of columns of text and margins, that whiteness at their edges, using not the usually recommended typographical proportions among them but my own, which are artistically determined. (2011; from the book “Pogled iznutra. Čitati s razumijevanjem” / “View from Inside. Close Reading”, Zagreb 2017)

The cycle “Paper and Scissors” (see Jacques Derrida) originated in the procedure of the collaged construction and deconstruction of my own works. From it, in a different technique (oil on canvas), the “Analogue Structures” developed in which, by a reduction of linguistic communication (letters and words), a pictorial minimalism of form was emphasised: poverty, simplification,…

In the larger size “Air Show” works I make use of a gestural manner of painting, one long subdued: many character elements of the picture are covered in paint, the density of material prevails as well as the collisional character of the aerial vortices. (2023; from manuscript) The “Air Show” cycle is exuberant, dynamic, adrenaline…