{"id":2901,"date":"2016-05-16T11:46:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T11:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:47:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T11:47:20","slug":"2901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/2016\/05\/2901\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition: Vice Tomasovi\u0107: HORROR VACUI \u2013 EX NIHILO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vice Tomasovi\u0107<\/strong><\/p>\n

HORROR VACUI \u2013 EX NIHILO<\/strong><\/p>\n

19.5. \u2013 5.6.2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"13227288_1205443876155440_2013939185389439371_o\"<\/p>\n

Exhibition opening: 19.5.2016. at 7pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fear of empty spaces is a characteristics of Romanesque painting where, due to the fear of empty spaces, the background, canvas, page of a book or wall surface were filled with the anthology of plant and animal ornaments which ruled out any possibility of three-dimensionality and reduced it to overlapping surfaces. The surface the artist worked on was supposed to be filled from edge to edge and avoid any illusion of three-dimensional representation, thus imposing the theme as the most important feature of the work. And how does \u201chorror vacui\u201c look like in contemporary painting? By filling the space of the painting, Vice Tomasovi\u0107 creates a unique visual world. More precisely, the painting after which the exhibition was named \u201cEx Nihilo I \/ Out of Nothing I\u201c is a fantasy composed of thousands of small fish, sea creatures, octopuses, and then snails, turtles and insects, and finally strange anthropomorphic creatures, meticulously and patiently drawn with acrylic paint, whereas underneath it all there seems to exist a herbal branched shape which forms a deeper composition. A witty imagery of tiny creatures on a large format points to the process of eternal cyclic recreation of nature, and cosmogonic connotations evoke the title \u201cOut of Nothing\u201c[1]. The viewer drowns in his paintings. It is therefore truly necessary to view his paintings in the original, because reproductions, regardless of their format, do not have this quality of drawing the viewer in. It is impossible to perceive them from a distance and it is impossible to focus only on a detail. By creating a unique visual vocabulary, Tomasovi\u0107 creates phantasmagorical worlds which he claims to be the real representations of world’s history and future. He creates fables with mystical messages. Given all this number of real and fictional characters, plant and animal forms, in an atmosphere that both suffocates and overwhelms, the viewer is forced to interpret on their own, but also to create, links between those painted creatures of some new mythology. \u201cEx Nihilo II\u201c again uses this exuberance of life of anthropomorphic creatures trapped in a school of fish, which the artist uses to successfully focus the viewers attention on the activity in the centre of the canvas, on a sort of dance of those unusual creatures that celebrate the creation of life. From a pale grey background he creates the movement of his characters to present the creation of life. In his works, medieval \u201chorror vacui\u201c blends with surreal visions and half-crazy version of symbolism previously achieved in his works from 2013, creating thus a painterly language of some new mythology.<\/p>\n

Morana Matkovi\u0107<\/p>\n

Vice Tomasovi\u0107<\/strong><\/p>\n

After graduating from a general grammar school in Omi\u0161, he enrolled into the Academy of Arts in Split, Department of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 2009. He is the founder and director of Amissa Open Air Festival of Contemporary Art in Omi\u0161, as well as the president of the Croatian Association of Artists in Split and the head of exhibitions at the Gali\u0107 Salon in Split. Vice Tomasovi\u0107 has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions, art festivals and manifestations, as an organizer, curator, artist and performer. He has won several awards for his work.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is financially supported by the City Office for Culture, Education and Sports Zagreb.<\/p>\n

WORKING HOURS<\/strong>
\nWednesday to Friday 11am \u2013 7pm<\/strong>
\nSaturday and Sunday 10am \u2013 6pm<\/strong>
\nMondays and holidays \u2013 closed<\/strong>
\nDom hrvatskih likovnih umjetnika<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Trg \u017ertava fa\u0161izma 16<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>10000 Zagreb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vice Tomasovi\u0107<\/p>\n

HORROR VACUI \u2013 EX NIHILO<\/p>\n

19.5. \u2013 5.6.2016.<\/p>\n

\"13227288_1205443876155440_2013939185389439371_o\"<\/p>\n

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