The house in the square named Pjaceta of St. Martin in Cres represents, for almost 30 years, a special place in the creational landscape of Karlo Trumbetaš. Arriving here not only in summer, Trumbetaš-musician becomes Trumbetaš-sculptor who pulls out «melodies» from the stern and tough walnut-wood of his native Podravina.
In years his sculptures assumed increasingly the Mediterranean simplicity and directness. Was it the immenseness of the open sea, where all that is human appears so small and fragile, which inspired the artist to abandon every detail of no importance? The body remains nothing but smoothly rounded contour and warm colour of the wood gets more and more the distinctive whiteness of the island stone. The sea dragged in themes as well – wooden sailors salute the wooden set sails.
Yet, Trumbetaš pulled out the most delicate melodies by fine lines of his drawings and paintings made in combined technique. Figures with elongated heads bent in surprise or melancholy, faces reduced to a gaze of big eyes, floating in the empty background like tender and deeply experienced music.
Sculptures, drawings and, lately, paintings are well known to Croatian art lovers. He exhibited also on our islands, firstly in Mali Lošinj (National Educational Centre, 1988), then in Cres (Small Gallery «Arsan», Cres Museum, 1994  and in the Gallery «ART», Marina Cres, 1995 to 2002). By this exposition of his latest works put in the Museum-Gallery Kula in Veli Lošinj, Trumbetaš - after longer period of time, presents himself to art lovers in Lošinj, confirming his permanent presence on our islands.

 

 

 

Krešimir Trumbetaš was born in Koprivnica in 1936 where he finished the Elementary and the High School. He graduated Geography at the Faculty of Science in Zagreb in 1960 and the clarinet at the Academy of Music in 1965. He played in the orchestra of RTV Zagreb and in the orchestra of the «Komedija» theatre. Later he worked as a clarinet teacher at the Secondary Music School «Blagoje Bersa» in Zagreb. Since 1967 he started to be engaged in wooden sculptures, drawings and graphics. In 1971 he made his first exhibition and from then till the present days he exhibits alone or in group in the country and abroad. Since 1974 he spends the summer season in Cres, where most of his sculptures have been created.