IVAN OŠTARČEVIĆ
IMPATIENCE (FRUSTRATION)

Karas Gallery
January 15 – January 27, 2019

Opening of the exhibition: Tuesday, January 15 at 7 pm at the Karas Gallery

Exhibition Impatience (Frustration), by Ivan Oštarčević will be opened on Tuesday, January 15 at 7 pm at the Karas Gallery (Zvonimirova 58).

“In the spirit of current pop-cultural production of unified narratives for the whole series of films that correlate through the shared universe paradigm, the author generates one of his own that critiques today’s society by anticipating the future. Impatience emerges as the final stage of creating a dialectic approach to the future world through relevant questions regarding the relationship between artist and art, artist and society, and artist and success. Through the language of installation art, Oštarčević introduces us to a complex situation of everyday life burdened with the force of fame and power. (…)

He confronts the viewer with an apparently complete whole which we are conditioned to accept without judgment, while at the same time speaking on the hermetic models of art, wishing for the arrival of a critical mass partial to exceptional, rather than mediocre cultural production. Unless everyone, from the academically-minded to the simple-minded, start demanding excellence as the next step in our valorization, art in itself is meaningless to society.”

From the preface, written by Mihaela Zajec

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Ivan Oštarčević is an artist practicing drawing, printmaking, painting and mural art born in Zagreb on the 17th of December of 1990. He finished the School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb in 2009. The same year he enrolls in the Art Education department on the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb which he finished in 2015, achieving the highest GPA at the Department of 4.84. As an active member of the Croatian Association of Artist and two accolades from the Academy of Fine Arts for exemplary work during his studying, he participated in more than twenty group exhibitions and had fifteen solo exhibitions. He lives and works in Zagreb, and is currently working on completing an extensive intermediary cycle under the working title Interactivity of a Cycle and as a teacher of Arts at Elementary School Ljudevit Gaj in Zaprešić.

 

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The exhibition will remain open until January 27, 2019