Exhibition on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the HDLU (Croatian Association of Artists) and 80 years since the construction of the Home of HDLU (October 26, 2018 – December 2, 2018)

“(…)The presented works of art sublimate the time and context of their origin, so they anchored themselves in the collective or at least the subjective curator’s memory as the ideal image of the period of their emergence. These works have proved as an intriguing and inspiring reflection or a comment about the reference social reality, i.e., through their form or content they represented a deviation in relation to the promoted aesthetic and social values, and through superior examples constituted a foretoken of times yet to come.

Their existence testifies about the pioneering role of artists in creating an image of their own time and articulating guidelines for the future. Starting with putting up “The History of Croats“ by Ivan Meštrović (1932) at the pavilion centre, i.e. the present Bačva Gallery, in remembrance of the first exhibition of the members of the Association at the Home of the Croatian Association of Artists, along with an inherent symbolism of exhibiting the sculpture, the other selected works follow the circular architecture of the space and ultimately fill it out in a kind of a visual paraphrase of a musical score.” 

Branko Franceschi, curator of the exhibition

 

 

 

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Sources: HDLU

Pictures by Jasenko Rasol (Courtesy of the curator Branko Franceschi)