Saša Jantolek, a self-taught painter of a rising generation, has devoted all his work to sensing the Mediterranean, aesthetisc and tradition of the small coastal places.
Onetime an illustrator and a comic-strip artist, Saša Jantolek has gradually replaced a frame with a sculptural-painting collage synthesizing painting and sculpture. With a simple visual expression he is engraving the drawings into a plaster plate or livening up the surface of the abandoned objects found in nature, illustrating vividly witty scenes of ladies with a cat, football players, fish, lovers, friends and coastal houses entrapped in time.
Many a time these creations, along with things drift ashore, particularly oars and scatted boat sides, end up embedded and piled up into the form of pading materials, objects, installations and coloristic sculptures evoking the witty segments of coastal life.
Run-down state of outwarn items, stories about the evanescence he is recalling create a sentimental warmth of Jantolek's expression.