{"id":4328,"date":"2021-08-19T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/?p=4328"},"modified":"2021-08-19T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:00:49","slug":"exhibition-nikola-vrljic-the-siege-of-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/2021\/08\/exhibition-nikola-vrljic-the-siege-of-oz\/","title":{"rendered":"EXHIBITION: NIKOLA VRLJI\u0106 – THE SIEGE OF OZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nikola Vrlji\u0107<\/strong>
\nThe Siege of Oz<\/strong>
\nBa\u010dva Gallery (Me\u0161trovi\u0107 pavilion)<\/strong>
\nAugust 27-September 16, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The opening of the exhibition by NIKOLA VRLJI\u0106, THE SIEGE OF OZ<\/em><\/strong> will be on Friday, August 27<\/strong> at 8pm<\/strong>, in Ba\u010dva Gallery<\/strong>, Home of HDLU (Me\u0161trovi\u0107 pavilion).<\/p>\n

\u201cIn his current body of work The Siege of Oz, Nikola Vrlji\u0107, all the while with an intriguing distinction, is conceptually and formally continuing in the direction already set by his previous exhibition Cirkus!. Now, as it was then, the narrative is based on semantically only loosely related sculptures which, even if they remain associatively disconnected, function very well as stand-alone works of art. This approach allows the artist to keep organically building on this narrative, currently exhibited in Galerija Ba\u010dva, for the upcoming exhibition stages. [\u2026] In terms of content, Vrlji\u0107 remains his generation\u2019s most prominent representative of figurative sculpture, equally convincing when dealing with male, female or bestial motifs. [\u2026] For, Vrlji\u0107 has won the acclaim of all those who had previously feared that competency in the traditional sculptural craft had vanished from the local arts scene. And indeed, already at the very onset of his career Vrlji\u0107 had made a significant contribution to naturalism in Croatian sculpture. This is just as true of the robust, firmly erect, belligerent male characters as of the willowy bestial figures. [\u2026] I would say that it is exactly with material that Vrlji\u0107\u2019s current deconstruction of traditional sculpting begins, a deconstruction that allows him to bridge the gap between the traditional and the contemporary form of expression. Vrlji\u0107 creates his recent works in polystyrene sheets, stacking them up to the desired height, and then shaping them by cutting them into the desired form. [\u2026] Going back to the semantic layers of Vrlji\u0107\u2019s work, as previously, his proclivity for the grotesque in both content and form is well pronounced. We could say that the chosen theme of The Siege of Oz, which sounds like a reckoning with the society of the spectacle, works in favour of his tendency to take a cynical commentary as a starting point in his interpretation of reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

from the preface written by Branko Franceschi<\/em><\/p>\n

Preface<\/a><\/p>\n

ABOUT THE ARTIST:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nikola Vrlji\u0107 was born in Zagreb in 1980. In the year 2007 he graduated from the Sculpture department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Since 2003 he has exhibited in 22 solo shows. Some of the recent ones are Citizens at Poola Gallery (2021, Pula), The Gathering at Antun Augustin\u010di\u0107 Gallery (2019, Klanjec), Runaways at Josip Ra\u010di\u0107 Gallery (2018, Zagreb). He has won multiple awards in different competitions for monuments and public works and is the author of a dozen public sculptures in Croatia. He is a member of HZSU and HDLU. He lives and works in Zagreb.<\/p>\n

EXHIBITION WORKING HOURS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday – Friday: 11am – 7pm h
\nSaturday and Sunday 10am – 6pm h
\nMondays, Tuesdays and holidays closed<\/p>\n

Exhibition will be opened until September 16, 2021.<\/p>\n

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Nikola Vrlji\u0107
The Siege of Oz
Ba\u010dva Gallery (Me\u0161trovi\u0107 pavilion)
August 27-September 16, 2021<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

The opening of the exhibition by NIKOLA VRLJI\u0106, THE SIEGE OF OZ<\/em> will be on Friday, August 27 at 8pm, in Ba\u010dva Gallery, Home of HDLU (Me\u0161trovi\u0107 pavilion).<\/p>\n

\u201cIn his current body of work The Siege of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7,1],"tags":[365,14,699,931,932],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4334,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions\/4334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdlu.hr\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}