The exhibition entitled “Retroevolution of self-perception” opens on Friday, May 3, at 7:00 p.m.

The exhibition is full of innovative devices for a better understanding of oneself and others, and the playfulness offered by their exceptional interactivity will keep visitors entertained all evening!

 

With innovative, interactive objects, whether in physical or virtual form, Vitar Drinković offers new solutions for getting to know man and his environment. The selection of works covers a consistent multi-thematic period from 2012 to 2023 and offers a chronology of the development of Drinković’s new media practice.

By breaking down the complexity of various social constructs, syndromes, and processes into simple forms, Drinković presents them from a different perspective, often through self-perception. By turning the “lens” towards himself, Drinković twists the concepts of productivity and efficiency, work and rest, restlessness and burnout, the impossibility of honest communication, capitalism, and balancing a healthy life with constant creativity in such a way that they become truly worrying – sometimes seemingly ridiculous – with to raise their awareness. Retro-evolutionary, he turns to simpler forms of self-understanding and self-perception through an evolutionary prism – it breaks down social constructs and feelings into basics and arranges them into new, material structures. The selection of works presented in the exhibition “Retroevolution of self-perception” is entirely the artist’s, without the intervention of the curator, and we can consider it another of Drinković’s ways of creating a new platform for communication.

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Marina Šafarić

 

The exhibition is open until May 12.

 

Vitar Drinković was born in Zagreb in 1983 and lives and works in Zagreb. He began his education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he graduated in sculpture in 2008. During his studies, in 2006, he spent one semester at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, in the USA. In 2014, he completed his graduate studies in animation and new media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, as part of which he participated in a student exchange at London Metropolitan University in England.

Among the thirty-two solo exhibitions so far, the ones in Porte 10 (Rouen, France), Art Gallery (Split), Gallery 90 60 90 (Zagreb), and at the Central Station and front of the Art Pavilion in Zagreb stand out.

He exhibited at almost eighty group exhibitions in Croatia, Germany, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Austria, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and France.

He created eight sculptures in public space and participated in fourteen art workshops.

He is the winner of several awards, recognitions, and scholarships, and in 2021 he was a finalist for the Radoslav Putar Award.

He works at the intersection of technology, science, and art through the creation of interactive devices, inventions, and installations that often serve as mediators in communication between people. He intends to investigate and create a new context, “conditions”, for a different sensory and thought cognition of everyday life.

 

Vitar Drinković, Heart Tube, 2019., FOTO: Darko Skrobonja