Ars Adriatica, No. 6, 2016.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
Radical Enformel in the Oeuvre of Ivo Gattin and Eugen Feller
Ješa Denegri
; samostalni istraživač, dr. Ivana Ribara, 113/III, Beograd, Republika Srbija
Sažetak
An important chapter in European art after World War II was the Enformel, with the linguistic variants L’informel in French, Informalismo in Spanish, L’informale in Italian, and Informell in German, an art movement that was chronologically and intellectually related to the contemporaneous philosophy and literature of existentialism. Among the Croatian artists, the Enformel found numerous followers and the exhibition Informel 1956-1962 introduced the radical wing, consisting of Ivo Gattin, Eugen Feller, Vlado Kristl, Marijan Jevšovar, and Đuro Seder. These artists found a theoretical platform in an influential text titled “Materia, tecnica e storia nell’informale” (1959) by the Italian art critic Giulio Carlo Argan, published in Croatian translation as “Materija, tehnika i povijest u informelu” in Književnik 1 (Zagreb, 1961). Specific and individual versions of “radical Enformel” found an expression in paintings by Ivo Gattin exhibited at the ULUH Gallery in Zagreb in 1957, later shown in two of his retrospectives: at Nova Gallery in 1978 and posthumously at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1992. Besides his outstanding artistic oeuvre, Gattin wrote an important theoretical text: “Novi material” (“New Material”), published in Umjetnost 4-5 (Zagreb, 1957). Eugen Feller had a solo exhibition at Studio G, organized by the Gorgona art group in 1962, with a series of Enformel paintings called Malampije, a title borrowed from the prose of Nathalie Sarraute. The radical Enformel of Gattin and Feller can be understood as a programmatic chapter in the socalled “second line” of Croatian art in the period after World War II, which ranged from Gorgona to the new art practices in the 1970s.
Ključne riječi
Enformel; Cold War; “radical Enformel”; Ivo Gattin; “New Material”; Eugen Feller; “Malampije”
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170928
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19.12.2016.
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