Category: Work

These are paintings that depart from the page painting system. With a sensible enlargement of the letters, I relativise the pageness and the semantic value of the text. With the disintegration of the page and sentence units, more than ever before in my paintings the letter alone stands out, in its size, colour and graphy.…

I do these “Studies” in small formats and with means that enable me to work at greater speed; innovative ideas appear in them more spontaneously and any disposition to try out versions and put in different changes of a linguistic, drawing or painting nature can be spotted more easily. When I paint in bigger sizes…

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)