Exhibitions galore - Miljenko Stančić, Braco Dimitrijević, Venetian Baroque Shine, Historic Clocks on Belltowers

There are wonderful art exhibitions in the galleries and museums of the city of Zagreb. The monographic exhibition “A Homage to Miljenko Stančić” marking 90 years since the birth of, and 40 years since the death of the noted Croatian painter has opened in the Art Pavilion.

The exhibition of more than 80 works presents various phases in the painter's opus. Some of the painter's best works are presented, including “St Florian” from 1951, “Dream (Lovers)” from 1963, “Lovers” from 1962 and “Musicians (Slumbering Wedding)” from 1957. The exhibition will be open in Zagreb until 7 May. Miljenko Stančić's work has been classified as magical realism, metaphysical, fantastical and phantasmogorical painting, while some critics consider him the originator of surrealist painting in Croatia. Alongside his painting he worked as an illustrator for newspapers, books and magazines as well as set design. Renowned authors including Miroslav Krleža wrote about Stančić's painting, as did many art historians such as Ljubo Babić, Josip Depolo, Vladimir Maleković, Tonko Maroević, Jerolim Miše and international names such as Stephane Rey and Patrick Waldberg.

The Museum of Contemporary Art in May will hold a large exhibition presenting Braco Dimitrijević. The exhibition will cover all phases of the artist's international career, from “Casual Passer-by” from 1971, giant photo portraits of «ordinary» people which he put in places normally reserved for political or advertising messages, to the most recent works which this radical pioneer of conceptual art exhibited at the Tate in London and the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and in which he combined installations, photography, video, painting and sculpture.

In the Great Hall of the Faculty of Arts at Zagreb University on 24 April an exhibition on great historic clocks on bell towers opens. This is a student project researchingbell towers clocks made by clockmaker Wendelin Jäger. A group of 11 students studied a completely unknown group of ten clock mechanisms in the bell towers of some of the most significant religious buildings in northwest Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina made by clockmaker Wendelin Jägerfrom Innsbruck in the Austrian Tyrol. The aim of the project is to inspire the community, and particularly the owners, to preserve the clocks, and if possible to restore them and display them to the public. The year 2017 has been named the year of Austrian and Croatian cooperation “Together in Culture” and this exhibition is also the contribution of the students of the University to learning about Austrian and Croatian ties.

«Venetian Baroque Shine: Giambattista Tiepolo and Paintings From his Circle» is an exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Crafts which will be showing from 1 June to 1 October. The exhibition comprises 27 oils on canvas, 4 drawings and 12 graphics. Tiepolo's painting, as a leading artist of Venetian painting of the 18th century, excels itself with an exceptional relationship between light and shade as well as colour contrast. He and the painters of his circle are the authors ofworks created to decorate the massive interiors of churches, palaces and residential villas so that visitors gain a unique experience between reality and illusion.