Art is Beautiful

Modern art aficionados can visit an interesting exhibition at the Art Pavilion in Zagreb until 11th December. It is Ante Rašić's art project entitled “Art is Beautiful” – an innovative way to present a postmodernist approach to sculpture and art installations.

Until 11th December, the Art Pavilion will showcase the most complex art project authored to date by the contemporary Croatian sculptor Ante Rašić entitled “Art is Beautiful”.  

The project is not large in terms of the number of pieces – there are no more than five works on display. However, given the innovative approach to combining sculpture and art installation, the project is rather big. 

Ante Rašić is one of the most important representatives of the generation of sculptors who developed during the 70s of last century. He has been awarded a number of relevant awards for his conventional sculpture work. However, over the years, he has expanded his artistic opus and shifted towards post modernistic expression in the form of modern installations. This is one of those projects, and the most complex so far. Art experts call this type of project a site-specific concept adapted to the ambience.  

“Art is Beautiful” represents an interesting combination of works created not only by the author himself but also by some other prominent Croatian artists of middle and younger generations.  

Every exhibited work is an installation of sorts. The first one is a graphic-sculpture installation entitled “The Historicist Cabinet of Wonders” which features a nine-meter-high sculpture of the Croatian Apoxyomenos decorated with 300 floating mirrors. In combination with light they reflect the so-called splendour of modern aesthetics represented in a historicist ambience. 

The work “Oval Sculpture” is an installation based on sculpture in combination with sounds, whereas the work “Art is Beautiful” relies on a typical painting intervention. Another interesting installation entitled “Me-me” has been mounted inside the Art Pavilion, whereas the last and fifth piece of work is outside rather than inside, but in an urban ambience. The last one is a sculpture entitled “On the Brink”.