MATEO SITO
FOR A RESPITE FROM WORKS
29.1.-16.2.2025.
KARAS GALLERY

On Wednesday, 29.1.2025. Mateo Sito opens his solo exhibition entitled For a Respite From Works, at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).

In his foreword, Josip Zanki emphasizes:
“He then proclaims, in a manifesto-like tone: “In my works, I explore the segments of easel and wall painting (easel and wall).” The artist, through deliberate repetition or sardonic paraphrase of a parroted statement, which is often heard among adherents of the anachronistic concept of painting as an identification with what they are engaged in, confronts us with the fundamental postulates of the space of the painterly space. These include the imagined wall of the studio, which in this case is transformed into the wall of Karas Gallery, the easel, three chairs, and the remnants of chairs transformed into painting-objects. Sito transforms objects and wall into a work of art, rethinking the ideas of ready-made, appropriation and anti-museum practices. Much like Vladimir Dodig Trokut, Sito transmutes and alchemises everyday, discarded objects. Interventions with paint or engraving do not aestheticize the object but rather integrate it into Sito’s ascetic/reduced visual language.”

PREFACE

Biography
Mateo Sito was born in Đakovo on 24 October 2001. His permanent residence is in Budrovci, although his place of residence has changed throughout his education. The first relocation occurred in Osijek, where he attended the School of Applied Arts and Design Osijek. After four years in Osijek, he enrolled in the undergraduate programme in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (2020–2024). He is currently a first-year master’s student in the class of Professor Matko Vekić. He has exhibited in several group exhibitions, among which the most notable are “Defining Perspective” (Queen Katarina Kosača Gallery, Mostar, 2024) and “Bengal Night: Interpretation of the Other and Otherness” (Apoteka, Vodnjan, 2024). He is the recipient of the Rector’s Award from the University of Zagreb, and he graduated from his undergraduate studies with honours, cum laude.

The exhibition will be open during the period from 29.1. to 16.2.2025.
Working hours of Karas Gallery
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 4pm – 8pm
Tuesday, Saturday 10am – 1pm
On Sundays and Mondays closed.
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Organizer: HDLU
With the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb