Category: Themes

In childhood, learning letters, by the method of identification, we correlated name words and images of objects, making use of tautological procedures. Among the tautological paintings I have done over the years, I differentiate those that are patent (“blackness”) and those that are less obvious (“360 g/m2”), where for example it is necessary to recognise…

“Pages”have the essential typographical elements by which they can be identified as pages of a book. (2011; from the book “Pogled iznutra. Čitati s razumijevanjem” / “View from Inside. Close Reading”, Zagreb 2017)

My written texts have to be distinguished from my painted texts. In the “Letterocracy” project, I bring them together. The result is that the text is no longer subordinated to the pictorial elements. Now it sends its express and clear communicational messages. “Letterocracy” [“Slovokracija”] is the title of an exhibition but also of a painting…

This group brings together works produced for various reasons and at different times, linked by the dominant mainly linear verticals. They might be bare lines, or another time meshed structures, a third time sequences of blocks, then chains of the letter “n”, written out lines of text and other things. In this geometrical order, organic…