Opening of art exhibition by Hamo Čavrk on Thursday, September 30, 8:00 pm at Gallery Fritzy in Mali Lošinj.
 
Over ten years, devotedly and inventively, passionately and almost obsessively, Hamo Čavrk has been considering an intriguing artistic idea related to artistic cartography of the unknown, the Carta incognita. Imagination, memories and feelings Čavrk conceives as insufficiently explored art fields which should be mapped and traced in order to define their spatial and time frame; such maps should direct our experiences, turning the unknown into the known.
Abstract compositions of Carta incognita consist of delicate structures of vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines which imply direction, path and movement. In terms of composition, they result from geometrical abstraction; yet, the atmosphere they generate is lyrical and poetic. The line as a formative base of the cycle, although under continual imperative of being straight, assumes magical properties through Čavrk’s hands, melting and disintegrating into spot, dripping or gesture. In such way chaos is introduced into a settled geometric system of the surface, things begin to spin out of control, becoming unpredictable and arbitrary. Only the tension between two cosmological categories remains constant, the re-established order and the chaos eroding it.

The Carta incognita cycle, created over many years exclusively by deep print technique (aquatint), entered successively into other media. On this occasion, Čavrk’s acrylics on canvas has been presented to art audience for the first time

Hamo Čavrk, a sculptor, a painter and a graphic artist, was born in Sarajevo in 1950 where he finished the School of Applied Arts to graduate in Sculpture from the Academy of  Fine Arts in 1977. From 1977 to 1979 he was an associate of the Antun Augustinčić Master Workshop in Zagreb. He received his master’s degree in Graphic Art from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 2007. He has held more than 60 individual exhibitions and has participated in few hundred exhibitions held in the country and abroad. He has published eight individual graphic maps, among which are: Different, Simple (1984), Bottom Leaves (1984), Teratology (1988) and Linea Rediviva (2002). He has received numerous awards and acknowledgments such as Order of Danica with the image of Marko Marulić for outstanding merits in the field of culture. He has been a member of the Croatian Association of Artists and holds the position of lecturer at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka. He currently lives and works in Zagreb, Rijeka and Mali Lošinj.

Exhibition opening will include projection of video work Carta incognita, valuable prize draw and musical programe.

Exhibition stays open untill 03.11.2010.