Art bulletin, No. 64, 2014.
Other
Josip Vaništa’s ‘Handful’
Zvonko Kusić
; Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Andrea Zlatar -Violić
; Ministarstvo kulture Republike Hrvatske
Tonko Maroević
; Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
On the occasion of Academician Josip Vaništa’s 90th birthday, the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts organised an exhibition and formal presentation of selected works from his rich and valuable artistic opus. The welcome by Academician Zvonko Kusić, president of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, presents Vaništa as a fruitful writer, a chronicler of artistic events, and a subtle painter, as well as a destroyer of convention, and Krleža’s master portraitist. Andrea Zlatar Violić, Croatian Minister of Culture, opened the exhibition with a speech on the significance of Vaništa’s works, with an accent on the versatility of his opus expressed in the connection of words and drawing as a virtual reality of exceptional existence. Academician Tonko Maroević, exhibition author, conceived an exhibition led by the idea of illustrating the range of the artist’s interests, not of the presentation of exhaustiveness or completeness, concluding that Josip Vaništa provides measure and dignity to the work he does, a vocation followed by the creative gifts with which he enriches us. The organization of the exhibition was provided for by Academician Velimir Neidhardt as editor and associate member Nenad Fabijanić as exhibition designer.
Keywords
exhibition; opus; writer; painter; Gorgona
Hrčak ID:
138400
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2014.
Visits: 1.589 *