21 February – 28 March 2009

Opening
Friday, February 20^th – 18.00hrs

In collaboration with Federico Luger Gallery - Milan

In Igor Eškinja complex intervention there is a constant oscillation between that which appears to be two-dimensional and that which is three dimensional, even if the means used are extremely simple.
His investigation is concerned with the subtle point where the representation of common objects and things (shown as outlines, silhouettes and patterns, created with very simple materials) becomes confused with their presence in the exhibiting space.
The photographs make the relationship between the concrete presence of the object, its representation in the exhibiting space and the photographic representation of all of this even more unstable. Reality and appearance become two terms with imprecise limits which exchange roles before a viewer who, in the act of perceiving must also perceive themselves. Without a doubt, the element of surprise plays a role in the artist’s work – originally from Rijeka, he studied at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts (where he graduated in 2002) – and it is a surprise which also comes from the simple materials used compared to the conceptual precision and extremely clean formal aspect of the works.

Igor Eškinja (1975 Rijeka, Croatia) lives and works in Rijeka, Milan and Venice. At the moment the Casino Luxembourg’s Project Room hosts his solo exhibition and In 2008 he showed his projects in Rovereto in occasion of Manifesta 7 and he organized a solo exhibition at Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos. He also took part in several international group shows in Croatia, France, Venezuela, Austria and Italy.

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