Eliconie

from 17/12/2015 to 31/1/2016

Matko Trebotic developed an entire series of offshoots ranging from the monumental colouristic explosions of main curtains for the theatres of Dubrovnik, Split, Rijeka nad Sibenik, to the installations reduced to cross forms made of stones.

Curated by Branko Franceschi

By promoting a level of existential independence and enterprise atypical for our environment, Matko Trebotić has by now been a successful visual artist for half a century. In the course of his career, he has developed a recognisable personal style, a specific artistic matrix with which he has contributed to the integration of the historical and indigenous cultural topoi of his Mediterranean homeland into a contemporary artistic vocabulary.
The audience accepted his visual art formula spontaneously, and - following the continuity of the tradition of the Mediterranean landscape genre - the collective consciousness of the national being adopted it as his contemporary and rather romantic and symbolic, than descriptive expression.

From this formula - whose prominent and recognisable elements include small churches with bellcotes, brown soil, steep hill slopes with cypresses, the graphicism of original alphabets and the blueness of the sea - Trebotić developed an entire series of offshoots ranging from the monumental colouristic explosions of main curtains for the theatres of Dubrovnik, Split, Rijeka nad Šibenik, to the installations reduced to cross forms made of stones laid following the traditional dry stone wall technique.

Image: Mediterranean Light, 180 x 200 cm, mixed media on canvas, 2014

Opening, 17 December at 6.00 p.m.

Museum of Fine Arts (Galerija Umjetnina)
Ulica kralja Tomislava 15 HR-21000
Split Croatia
http://www.galum.hr/izlozbe/

Hours:
Tuesdays – Friday: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
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