Miljenko Horvat : Traganja / Explorations

2012

Boek; 87 p ill

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Tent. Zagreb, Museum of Contemporary Art, 25-09-2012, 11-11-2012. - Monografie toont werk van de Kroatische kunstenaar Miljenko Horvat (Varazdin 1935, Zagreb 2012). - Although Miljenko Horvat has left a deep mark on contemporary Croatian art, primarily through his work with Gorgona and participation in New Tendencies, he remains relatively unknown to the general public. His first solo exhibition took place in the 1960s in Zagreb. However, in Croatia, not much is known about his activities after that. This is likely because he moved abroad, first to Paris (1962) and then to Canada (1966), where he spent most of his life. After his retirement in 2008, he returned to Zagreb where he died in March of this year. His name is usually associated with the group Gorgona, for which he realized the seventh issue of the anti-journal of the same name in 1965 at the encouragement of Joseph Vanista. In its overall creation it is possible to find a specific Gorgonic spirit, something Radoslav Putar detected even during the first presentation, describing Horvat's poetry as "a notorious absurdity that is reflected in dignified wisdom." However, in one moment his perpetual search had lead him to the New Tendencies movement, in which he participated in the innovative field of computer graphics in 1973. Miljenko Horvat, along with poetic collages, spontaneous and gestural drawings and paintings that share the poetics of abstract expressionism, explored the possibilities of various media, producing even a rich body of photography, recording like a passionate traveler, wanderer, and sensitive seeker the poetically microcosmic, lonely "scenes without significance", anonymous traces of the human hand and the effects of time on the walls of cities. Although Horvat devoted himself to his deepest vocation, earning a living as an architect, designer, lecturer on design, illustrator and caricaturist, he established a noteworthy artistic career while abroad, especially in Canada. His works are now in museums and private and public collections in Canada, Israel, the Netherlands, Italy, and the U.S. After nearly half a century, the diverse, rich, and intriguing work of Miljenko Horvat returns to the city where, after studying architecture, he slowly and steadily began his artistic search

Located in: HORVAT, MILJENKO

ISBN: 978-9537615420

VUBIS: 2:88709