31/12/2018 Severine Grosjean
Ivan Ostarcevic is a young Croatian artist. His work is based on the similarities between ancient and modern heroic models. Colorful stories show that almost nothing has changed. With a long research artwork, he composes a work in which the culminating bridge is this contact with the history of the disappeared civilizations. The aim is not the romanticization of certain past times to criticize today but challenge modernity.
The foundation of the story is played with contemporary visual mediums. At first glance, the incompatibility of our two worlds could create a “clash of Civilizations”, but the established internal dialogue makes this configuration unique and corresponds to the artist’s question about what has changed and what has not.
With humor, daring and graphic prowess, Ivan often creates the event on the web. For him, pop art is an encounter between popular traditions and modernity. In his eyes, the blending of cultures is a tremendous wealth. The raw material is there. It is this explosive blend of heritage revisited and universalism that we found in his last work, a job full of spirit and mood.
The imaginative representations have undoubtedly required a lot of effort, and the artist has managed to achieve expressive and descriptive narrative. The canvases are like movible pieces, arranged randomly in space. The spectator is invited to circulate among them on which Ivan painted on both sides. This is not the result of paintings but of objects.
Ivan gave particular attention to structures and lines. His work offers the visitor a fascinating visual point of view, as well as a discussion room full of ideas. He offers a new perspective where we discover the human side of each. He explores a new image based on a new identity blending aesthetic requirements and elements of individual approach, personal, intimate, biographical from all horizons,
These moments of life of people lost in the city. Breaking the ideals, Ivan Ostarcevic reports unfulfilled wishes.
The paintings comment on a city ruining hopes despite the exaltation of colors. This work is a mirror in which
the spectator wanders to get lost recognizing their common universe.
The French writer Jean d’Ormesson wrote “Men are free. Or they think they are free. They are, in truth, so closely held in a derisory fragment of space and in their epoch from which it is forbidden them to escape, that their famous freedom, of which they make so great case about it, is only deceitful, the eye and illusion.”
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