Zeljko Kipke
dal 19/11/2007 al 11/12/2007
Segnalato da
19/11/2007
Zeljko Kipke
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art - MMSU, Fiume (Rijeka)
Skin Condition is an excellent case study for a tenet claiming that artworks and art practice engage a firm relation towards the wider context in which they arise. His paintings are a "fantastic-paranoid commentary on the current civilization discourse. (Branko Franceschi)
Curator: Branko Franceschi
Renown Croatian artist, Željko Kipke, will present his Skin Condition cycle,
comprising 8 paintings (oil on canvas).
Skin Condition, a cycle whose world premiere is presented by MMSU in Mali
salon Gallery, is an excellent case study for a tenet claiming that artworks
and art practice engage a firm relation towards the wider context in which
they arise. Though, during the last two years, Željko Kipke presented himself
as a film author and writer to such an extent that it almost seemed as if he's
taking a break from visual arts in which he created for such a long time an in
such a sovereign manner, it is his essential painting vocation that proved as
the best medium for realizing fantastic-paranoid commentary on the current
civilization discourse. (Excerpt from the essay by Branko Franceschi)
“My paintings of the Croatian landscape are seasoned with redness, fissures,
rashes, smallpox, unusual growths – structures which, though invisible to the
naked eye, registered in mine, with only a matter of time, hour, day or month
until they come to the surface and cloud the vistas of the ”innocent”
weekenders.” Željko Kipke, in a text written one day before the tragedy on the
island of Kornat.
Opening: 20.11.2007. h 19
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art - MMSU
Dolac 1/II - Fiume (Rijeka)