Đanino Božić: One Way or Another
Đanino Božić: One Way or Another
21 February–22 March 2025
artKIT
You are cordially invited to the opening of the solo exhibition One Way or Another by the interdisciplinary artist, painter, sculptor and graphic artist Đanino Božić, which will take place on Friday, 21 February 2025, at 6 p.m. in the artKIT exhibition space.
INVITATION (PDF)
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION (PDF)
More than twenty years have passed since Đanino Božić's first solo exhibition in Maribor, when he presented his “constellations” and paintings on metal. On this occasion, he presents a selection of recent works that show that his art is neither “linear” nor “static” or “predictable”, but that his creative processes are open to different areas of exploration and elaboration of formal structures. Notwithstanding the fact that logos and order appeal to him, i.e. minimalism and neo-constructivism, his career over the years has proven that he moves effortlessly, almost playfully, between different artistic idioms.
Đanino Božić succeeds with this exhibition, which can be seen as a spatial installation of four thematic wholes (archived images, patterned images, cargo objects, monochromes), which are connected through the use of recycled materials, plastic toys, deformations or, for example, in the predominant “Klein” blue, to open up dialogical spaces of their meanings through their intermedial relationships, which he masterfully weaves into the linguistic and social discourses.
With each work on display, be it a blue-painted school globe, red toy cars with an oversized cargo on the roof, collaged pages of a discarded book or archived (classical) paintings that he has created, the artist draws the viewer into the contemporary themes of waste and consumer society with a pinch of humor. The exhibition is therefore not just an iconography of materials or a mere “accumulation of elements”, but above all an amalgamation of actions that function simultaneously as an artistic and conceptual idea.
Biography
Đanino Božić (Pula, Croatia, 1961) has been active in the art scene since 1984. He works with painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, creates artist books and spatial installations. He is one of those contemporary Croatian artists where you never know what they will exhibit next and in which direction their concept will develop. From his beginnings until today, he has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and internationally and follows current developments in the world of art with curiosity.
< Đanino Božić: The Felling of Cypresses (cargoes), mixed technique, 2024; photo: Đanino Božić
artKIT, Glavni trg 14, Maribor
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