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| Genre: Contemporary |
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Animal Cycle: the Zodiac:
Matko Vekić: New Works
The Animal Cycle: the Zodiac at the Arts Pavilion presents a series of large-scale oil and varnish paintings by the 35-year old Matko Vekić. Working in large-format series and previously inspired by motifs as disparate as insects and mechanical excavators, in his new body of work Vekić has reached a higher level: considering exhibition space as a magnetic field or a sacred ground, the artist denotes the utter east and west exhibition wings as poles, a minus embodied in a large oil entitled Fashion Models and a plus embodied in a painting entitled World Champions. The male and female principle governing our life and ironically depicted in modern opposites that attract (models and soccer players) engenders in both wings twelve Zodiac signs, brilliantly rendered in motifs ranging from a pair of Porches to a crane, each abstracting another archetype. In this playful stream of consciousness that touches on spiritual but also material principles that govern our planet, the view is drawn to the center: a group of seven free-standing kinetic sculptures representing planets with the Sun in the middle. The planets (Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, Mars, Moon and Mercury) are moving, pulsating objects, rendered in rotating aluminum prisms that turn at different intervals and give fragmented images of private and global mythologies with sporadic staccato of corporate logos. The maturity of artistic expression but also the vision of earthly and heavenly kingdoms that characterize this body of works is reminiscent of esoteric philosophic treaties and humanist artistic visions. Vekić invites the spectator to consider the way the painting and sculpture can reference or change the message of architecture.
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