MATIJA ČOP
IN THE MEANTIME
Bačva Gallery, Home of HDLU (Meštrović pavilion)
25.6.-25.8.2024.

On Tuesday, 25.6.2024. Matija Čop opens his solo exhibition entitled In the Meantime, at 7 pm in at Bačva Gallery (Home of HDLU / Meštrović pavilion).

In her foreword, Lea Vene emphasizes:

“The site-specific installation In the Meantime is created in the space between Matija’s earlier works in the medium of soft sculpture and new exploration of steel frameworks, which are now oversized and merged with soft membranes in a radical gesture of synchronisation with the circular space of the Bačva Gallery.

At the core of Matija’s approach is manual work, which implies respect for the given modular restrictions but, at the same time, freedom from predefined matrices in the very process of constructing living forms that now react to newly introduced metal compositions. Manual work also leads to slowing down and adapting to the fingers and hands that precisely intertwine each building element of these soft organisms. (…)”

Biography:

Matija Čop (b 1987) is an artist living in London. His work encompasses sculpture, painting, and printmaking.
Čop’s practice explores the transformative potential of “translation” as ideas, structures, and their component materials pass between encapsulating frameworks.
Čop’s visual language constructs itself from selected unit elements which are iteratively combined, reconfigured, and dissolved in accordance with self-contrived, project-specific logics. The resultant works invite reflection on tensions between order/disorder, manufacture/craft, and unit/system.
Čop completed his MA at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2017. His work is held in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Modern Art at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb. He exhibited at the Textile Art Biennial 2021 in Kranj, Innovative Costume of the 21st Century in Moscow, and Future Fashions in Eindhoven.

PREFACE

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The exhibition will be open from June 25 to August 25, 2024

Visual identity: ivanklis.studio
Organizer: HDLU
With the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb