Wendy Vernić: V/V

"In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora" – Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoseon The title of the exhibition Vendi Vernić V/V carries several layers of meaning. The most obvious and legible "at first" are the initials of this young artist. V is also a sign for the Roman numeral 5, which reminds the author, who received her master's degree with high honors (magna cum laude) at the Department of Graphic Arts, ... Read More

Cosi fan tutte na kon(op)cu / exhibition of scenography and costume design of the opera Cosi fan tutte

"COSI NA KON(OP)CU" The exhibition "Cosi fan tutte na kon(op)cu" summarizes the creative process of work from the idea to the performance of the scenography and costume design of the opera "Cosi fan tutte" by W. A. Mozart, performed in May this year at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. This year, a joint opera project of five university constituents (MUZA, ADU, ALU, TTF and AF-SD) brought together more than 150 students, professors ... Read More

Venientes – selection from the annual production of works by ALU students 2017 / 2018

ARTIST STATEMENT: Davor Dmitrović 4th year of undergraduate university study of graphic arts Mentor: izv.prof.art. Joško Baće In the words of the author: "The works are part of a cycle that is in the making. The desire is to make paintings that will never be able to be viewed in their entirety. The surface of the work is insanely dependent on light, and reflects it towards the observer as he moves in front of the surface. Light is not ... Read More

Vanja Jović / Inclinations of Graphic Records

The exhibited graphic series is entitled Inclinations of Graphic Records, which is the title and topic of the doctoral thesis of Vanja Jović, a young Croatian artist, master of graphic skills and a representative of the graphic studio of our oldest Academy of Fine Arts, where she learned all the laws and skills of intaglio printing, and recognized the immense potential in it and shaped an authentic visual language, creating amazing examples of graphic opus. … Read More

Cash&Carry: Towards the 14th Open Day of Art

For the second year in a row, students and professors of the Teaching Department of the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Zagreb are organizing an exhibition that presents the Open Day of Art - Cash & Carry, for our department and the Academy of Fine Arts and the wider cultural public, for many years a recognizable and unavoidable cultural, artistic, promotional and educational event with a humanitarian character, which ... Read More

Passion Heritage / group exhibition of ALU students "My Experience of Suffering"

This year's student exhibition for "Passion Heritage" presents a series of works of smaller formats in various drawing, painting, graphic and sculptural techniques, touching on the Way of the Cross as the main theme with an emphasis on the following topics: meeting with the mother, meeting with Veronica, meeting with the women of Jerusalem, crucifixion, removal from the cross, mourning, laying in the grave. The exhibition presents a number of works that ... Read More

Tina Bertović / Principles of Copying and Transmutation

Painting to painting What does it mean to see? What does it mean to see a painting work? These seemingly banal questions open up a whole series of approaches that consider the question of perception – both perceptual and cognitive – in a wide range of scientific and theoretical disciplines. The complex relationship between the observer and the observed makes the phenomenon of seeing a demanding, and at the same time self-conscious procedure. To see means to become aware (to see), whereby the implicit gesture of insight into ... Read More

Radnička in the Making/Emerging – Planning of the South-East Entrance to Zagreb

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF STUDENT WORKS of the academic year 2016/2017 of the courses CITY PLANNING (Department of Urban Planning, Spatial Planning and Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb) and PROJECT ORDER WITH SEMINAR (Department of Spatial Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, University of Ljubljana). The exhibition WORKER IN THE MAKING/EMERGING presents the results of international cooperation achieved during the summer semester of the academic year 2016/17 in the field of teaching between the Department of Urban Planning and ... Read More

Valerija Cerovec / Antonija Bačić: Slightly Changeable Between Bodies

At first, we were interested in the textures, colors and shapes of fabrics. (He scratches his forehead. He puts his hand on his lap.) Fabrics are impressive to people. What we put on every day and take off, then put on again, says something about us. (He feels the hem of the dress he wears with his fingertips.) But not only that, textures are all around us – what we lean on, what we cover ourselves with. Fabrics ... Read More

ALU-SOC: Art as a Creative Engine for Fostering Social Sensitivity

COOPERATION BETWEEN SOCIAL WORK AND FINE ARTS Social topics and issues of the position of vulnerable groups in society form the focus of interest of social work as a scientific discipline and applied profession. In connection with this, the issues of human rights, social solidarity, social cohesion, equality and inequality in society, as well as many others, are thematized within social work. In finding an answer to the question of how to extract these topics from ... Read More