Library Newsletter 02/2025

News of events in the period February 2025

        · Virtual Exhibition: Carnival and the Mask

The time of carnival is approaching, which has rich traditions and customs around the world. You can see how painters depicted its different aspects: joy, playfulness, debauchery, grotesque, loneliness, caricature, mythical dimension, solemnity, fantasy, demonic, social aspect...

 

        · News: On the occasion of the exhibition The Smell of Freshly Chopped Wood - A Trace of Carpentry Skills

The exhibition The Smell of Freshly Chopped Wood presents the coexistence of man and nature, i.e. human traces in the landscape and how man's changing of the landscape affects him in return. We present the catalogues of two exhibitions from the 1970s that presented the tradition of carpentry in Croatia and its immanent sculptural qualities.