Category: Karas Gallery Exhibitions
22 January 2025
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.”
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
04 December 2024
MIRAN BLAŽEK
STILL LIFE
11.12.-31.12.2024.
KARAS GALLERY
On Wednesday, 11.12.2024. Miran Blažek opens his solo exhibition entitled Still life, at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).
In his foreword, Zlatko Kozina emphasizes:
This principle of “trimming” of space is distinctly evident in the exhibited works of Miran Blažek. And not the infinite, cosmic (read: prosaic) space, but rather limited (gallery) space. Blažek uses photography printed on canvas, in the form of horizontally positioned “cubes” (canvas mounted on stretcher bars with an accentuated voluminousness, all together supported by wooden legs) and a photograph printed on canvas in a frame with glass. His palette, dominated by achromatic tones—black, white, and grey—features only one chromatic element: yellow, ranging from intense primary yellow to pale yellow. Observed as a whole, the exhibition exudes a sense of calm, even comfort. While yellow, as a colour, possesses an expansive quality and inherent dynamism that challenges its boundaries, in this context, it seems to confront the constrained space of defined dimensions, creating an ambience that can be described as an ecstasy of low intensity.
Biogprahy:
Miran Blažek (1983, Osijek, Croatia), has earned a BA in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2006, and an MA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 2012. Soon after completing his studies, he started to enhance his work with practices that transcend the traditional idea of painting. In his work, he is drawn to border fields of the medium, primarily drawing and painting, and he engages in transposition – through action, material, or space itself. Blažek uses the experience of painting to develop various possibilities inherent to the nature of the medium. He has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. In 2012 he has received the Radoslav Putar Award for best young artist under 35, awarded by the Institute for Contemporary Art in Zagreb, and in 2020 he received Vlastimir Kusik Award on 27th Slavonian Biennale. He took part in several artist residency programs abroad: Hafenkombinat/HDLU, Leipzig; CREART, Kristiansand; and International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York. In 2015 he founded the project International Student Biennial, an award exhibition for students and emerging artists.
The exhibition will be open during the period from 11.12. to 31.12.2024.
Working hours of Karas Gallery
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 4pm – 8pm
Tuesday, Saturday 10am – 1pm
On Sundays and Mondays closed.
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http://karasarthub.eu
Organizer: HDLU
With the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb
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