In these posts I thought it would be a good idea to focus on
photographers from an individual country, after all this is the Big World
Picture.
In this post I thought I would start with Croatia.
In Croatia events are semioccasional with most of the
significant photography collections stored in the Museum of Contemporary
Art and the Zagreb Photo Club. Contemporary Croatian photography exists through
small, individual events. Most of these events are short term projects funded
or sponsored by galleries such as CEFFT (Centre for Photography and Film at the
MSU – Museum of Contemporary Art, Zegred).
So that was a short introduction to the Contemporary
Photographic scene, below is a small selection of the wide and varied
Photographers from Croatia.
Darije Petkovic (b.1974)
Petkovic worked for fifteen years as a photographer and
photo editor in political weeklies. He now works as an assistant professor in
the Cinematography Department at the Academy of Dramatic Arts.
“How do
you assess the current state of Croatian photography?
I think
our image is generally for many years in some sort of appendix Europe. I think Croatian photographers not
break the Croatian border in the gallery sense. Here and there, maybe someone do
something, which is great, but I do not know that they are our photographers
who are world famous. Looking at
our environment, throughout history we have the world famous Italian
photographers, Austrians, Hungarians, Italians, not to talk about the Germans
and the French, but these areas are not world famous photographer.”
Solo exhibitions (selection):
§ 2009 Ghosts of the past - Klovicevi Dvori Lotrscak, Zagreb
§ 2007 view rooms - Vladimir Bužančić Gallery, Zagreb
§ 2006 in Lea Walk - ULUPUH Gallery, Zagreb
§ 2005 Lea 2005 - Klovicevi Dvori Lotrscak, Zagreb
§ 2005 Circus - Modern Art - Studio Joseph Racic, Zagreb
§ 2004 Jerusalem 2002 - Italian Community Novigrad,
Novigrad
§ 2004 Carmelite - Small gallery of the Academy, Porec
§ 2002 Jerusalem 2002 - Photogallery KIC - club, Zagreb
§ 2001 Carmelite - Nuts Croatian Hall, Vinkovci
§ 2001 Carmelite - Prince Miroslav Gallery, Zagreb
§ 1996 Carnival in Venice - Ulrich Gallery, Zagreb
Group exhibitions (selection):
§ 2009 oblivion Manifesto - Max Zagreb Art Fest (Festival of
Contemporary Arts)
§ 2008 Revolution on hold - Max Zagreb Art Fest (Festival of
Contemporary Arts)
§ 2005 Art is the medium - 39 Salon, HDLU, Zagreb
§ 2004 International Photography Exhibition - 29 Zagreb Salon,
Zagreb City Assembly
§ 2003 Photodistorzija - multimedia photo exhibition, Small
Gallery of the Academy, Porec
§ 2002 International Photography Exhibition - 28 Salon, Museum of
Arts and Crafts, Zagreb
Josip
Klarica(b.1946)
Klarica
studied photography at the School for Applied Arts in Zagreb and then later
studied at Carl’s University in Prague. After graduating Klarica returned to
live and work in Zagreb since 1977. Klarica studied the history of photography
techniques and photochemical processes. He had shows where he exhibited works
created by successfully reconstructing old photography processes. He used
camera obscurers and a replica, that he reconstructed himself, of the panorama
chamber from 1845.
This
mixing of the old photographic techniques with modern artistic ideas resulted
in the absorbing and gripping works that are full of symbolic meaning and
poetic visions.
Solo exhibitions (selection):
§ 2005. Galerija
Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb
§ 2004. Foto Galerija
Lang, Samobor
§ 2002. Galerie
Johannes Faber, Beč
§ 1999. Galerija
ULUPUH-a, Zagreb
§ 1994. Centro
Culturale San Fedele, Milano
§ 1991. Galerija
uvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb
§ 1988. Galerija
Sebastian, Varaždin
§ 1985. Galerija
Sebastian, Dubrovnik
§ 1984. Arhiv TD,
Zagreb
§ 1982. The
Photographer's Gallery, London
§ 1980. Muzej za
umjetnost i obrt, Zagreb
§ 1977. Galerija
Izlog – Oktogon, Zagreb
§ 1976. Atelje 212,
Beograd
Artwork in collections and museums:
§ International
Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, SAD
§ Bibliotheque
Nationale, Pariz, Francuska
§ Muzej za umjetnost
i obrt, Zagreb
§ Muzej suvremene
umjetnosti, Zagreb
§ Musee Nicephore
Niepce, Shalon su Saone, Francuska
§ Moderna galerija,
Zagreb
Boris
Cvjetanovic(b.1953)
Cvjetanovic
graduated from the Academy of Pedagogy (Visual Arts Department), Zagreb, in 1976.
In 1981 he started working for a youth magazine and became the Editor of
Photography.
He
has shown his work in many solo and collective exhibitions internationally such
as Croatia, Japan, USA and all over Europe. Cvjetanovic has won many
prestigious awards such as the Tokyo International Photo-Biennale and the Homo
Volans Award. He is also a member of the Croatian Community of Independent Artists
Solo exhibitions (selection):
§ 2009 Carte blanche: PM - Extended Media Gallery, Croatian
Association of Artists, Zagreb
§ 2009 City II - Gallery Bukovac, Cavtat
§ 2007 City / Town - Native Gallery Vinko Perčić,
Subotica
§ 2007 Fotovideo - gallery AZ, Žitnjak, Zagreb
§ 2007 Labin miners - Zuccato, Porec
§ 2007 City, Studio City Photo - Art Gallery of the National Museum
Zadar
§ 2007 Labin miners - Gallery Labin
§ 2006 Fotovideo - Gallery Gray Zone, Korcula
§ 2005 Photo Studio City - Klovićevi court - Lotrscak, Zagreb
§ 2000 Photos from a well - Photogallery Lang in Samobor
§ 2004 Ocean - Bukovac Gallery in Cavtat
§ 2003 Photographed / UPBEAT počitnice - Gallery of
Contemporary Art, Celje
§ 2003 City - OK Gallery, Rijeka
§ 2003 New Heaven - Rovinj Heritage Museum - Gallery
St. Thomas, Rovinj
§ 2002 Town / City - Art Dubrovnik
§ 2002 Town / City - Gallery Galženica
§ 2001 Ocean - City Libraries - Library Dubrava
§ 2000 Ocean - Open University, Small Gallery, Porec
§ 2000 11.-14.12.1999. - OK Gallery - MMC Palach Rijeka
§ 2000 11.-14.12.1999. - Ghetto Gallery, Split
§ 2000 11.-14.12.1999. - Cross Roban Gallery, Zagreb
More Croatian Photographers can be found on
www.croatian-photography.com
Compiled by Paul Casey Hemming @ Big World Picture Dot Com
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