“Portraits” – Postira Dec 2016
Take a look a gallery of exhibition in Chapel St. Ante in Postira presenting portraits mad. by my colleagues and friends as well as two self portraits. [Show as...
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In the creation of art it is determined and develops awareness of own cultural identity, selected by cultural self-determination within which is running permanent searching for meaning. [Show as slideshow] Dear art enthusiasts “… For behold, the winter is past. The flowers have already appeared in the land, The time has arrived for pruning the vines, And the voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land. The fig tree has ripened its figs, And the vines in blossom have given forth their fragrance …“ Šir ha-Širim, Asma Asmaton, Canticum Canticorum, The Song of Songs, Hohelied, Visoka pesem, Pjesma nad pjesmama, Kanat vrhu svih kanti. This evening we are starting this speech with Biblical verses to draw attention to the work of the two twin souls one more time, whose art aims at justifying everything that is and everything that is worth. This was for ages the aim followed by the best thinkers (and today I do not say artists on purpose, because there are more and more of non-thinkers) with their one goal, which is to reveal to the very fact of life, its explanation, to draw attention to the meaning, to the secret of its very source, and to the sacrament of the inflow of life. Giving value to life has always been the task of art, and in making an opinion of these values there are benchmarks for cultural viability. /A person-artist becomes civilised when (s)he introduces (new) values in his/her life, when (s)he sets tasks to himself/herself and aims to achieve them. By realising them, we form our own self as well as other’s being, we become better and more valuable, making the world more valuable too. Artistic creation determines and develops the awareness of our own cultural identity, our cultural self-determination within which the eternal quest for meaning goes on. During this process even the artist could turn from a cultural subject into a cultural object, which is the major trap in the art today, becoming an end to itself, with no source and no inflow. With Nejašmić-Pirnat and Pirnat-Nejašmić the goal is crystal clear. Therefore, we are here to greet the two artists tonight, first of all sculptors in their own self-determination, who are not slaves to sculptural techniques, but they understand art primarily as a part of their own yet general cultural self-determination as well. It is equally valuable to create drawings, graphic arts, paintings, and sculptures or organise an atelier, a gallery, exhibitions, and meetings with other artists. This social, sociological approach to artistic creation is the new value with which to shape the aforementioned cultural identity of the individual and the community, for us with still unforeseeable consequences. Their unity is like fine linen in which it is difficult to tell who is weft, and who warp. In weaving there are two systems of threads: warp is the lengthwise or longitudinal thread, while weft is the transverse thread. When they overlap, they actually crisscross, in this case it is sculptural, artistic weaving, whose weft and warp form a cross, and the cross is love, love is truth, truth is desire and pursuit and hope for love; but not without the cross, and so we spin in a circle. In the holy mystical circle of life around the cross which, surprisingly, they are not ashamed to profess Not only do they profess it, but they preach it in their own way, rejoicing in God’s gift of procreation, of creating together and gladly sharing with others. In this light it is not important whether the joy of sharing is happening somewhere...
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In order to comprehend the value of love in life, one probably has to experience its loss. It is the void created by the loss of love that open our eyes for this authentic and primary emotion. [Show as...
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