Works by professor Vesna Bošković at international exhibitions in Croatia and Italy
Professor of the Faculty of Fine Arts Vesna Bošković is a participant in two international exhibitions in Croatia. This is an exhibition in Zagreb "FULL COLLOR" where she presented a digital print "Synchronicity" for which she received a plaque of excellence, which is third in the divided categories after the gold and silver plaque. The professor presented herself with her work and at the exhibition “5. International Self-Portrait Triennial ”at the Price Gallery in Samobor.
"ZAGREB FULL COLOR is an international exhibition of digital prints, which marks the International Day of Colors and the European Day of Creativity. Artists from 10 countries took part: from Albania, Montenegro, Croatia, India, Italy, Canada, Kosovo, USA, Singapore and Slovenia. The works selected by the jury can be seen from March 21 to April 21, 2021. The author of the exhibition, Hanibal Salvaro, stated the following: “The exhibition ZAGREB FULL COLOR simultaneously indicates that Zagreb and Croatia are good hosts, as well as an important European exhibition destination for contemporary art. In this way, Croatia got another international traditional exhibition that will remind us every year on March 21 of the possibilities of visual expression in colors ”.
This year's exhibition of the 5th INTERNATIONAL TRIENNIAL OF SELF-PORTRAIT, entitled "I - between reality and imagination", opened on April 9 at the Prica / Samobor Gallery. The author of the exhibition is art historian and art critic Nikola Albaneže. Exhibition of the 5th International Triennial of Self-Portraits "I - Between Reality and Imagination" follows a charted path that is recognized in the art world by its traditional holding every three years. So far, four editions and juried exhibitions have been realized, namely 2008/09, 2011/12, 2014 and 2017. The idea of the exhibition was set during the first triennial when the author of the exhibition was art historian Guido Quien who in some way "laid the foundations" and a solid starting point for this project, and with the same goal continued to develop art critics Višnja Slavica Gabout, Branka Hlevnjaki Sonja Švec Španol, during which everyone argued the facts that justify the holding of the triennial and its further continuity
This fifth edition of the triennial has an international character, so 385 artists responded to the invitation with 676 submitted works, of which the expert jury consisting of Nikola Albaneže and Nikolina Šimunović selected 81 works for presentation at this triennial event. Artists from all parts of Croatia as well as Slovenia, Italy, Germany, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Canada are exhibiting.
From the introductory text of the foreword, the author of the exhibition, Nikola Albaneže, says: “In the search for a theme, as well as in the choice of motifs to present, artists have an immense field of possibilities. Especially since there is no implicit, imposed by academic authority, list which is in terms of value permissible content. However, even this immensity - always observed from the position of each individual - is divided into two sets; on the one hand is all that surrounds him, on the other he himself; the "I" that the world experiences. And what surrounds it is the world understood in all its levels: material and spiritual, real (factual) and imaginary (fictional), present and memory, mythical, levels accessible to the eye and the hand or only the imagination, otherwise unattainable, etc .; a world that reveals itself to everyone in its own way, therefore, in a unique way. What is common, however, is the effort to know and, perhaps, the unity of both parts. The view is only one, but extremely important feeling along the way", the author of the exhibition, Nikola Albaneže, pointed out.
The exhibition abounded in a variety of artistic expressions, from video works, installations, photographs, sculptures of the modernist spirit, digital prints to more classical forms. For the video work of professor Vesna Bošković, the critic Asamblaz stated in the exhibition catalog: They differ in performance, but are similar in the discomfort they cause: claustrophobia and anxiety in Goran Kujundžić's Personality Square and the ambivalent discomfort offered by a chair cut by a cube in the complex symbolism of Vesna Bošković's video "Really and Possible".
Professor Vesna Bošković will exhibit in Venice at The Room Contemporary Art Space from May 10 to June 3, 2021 and at the Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello from May 11 to June 3, 2021. The video work "Night in Montenegro" by professor Vesna Bošković will be shown within the International Salon of Contemporary Art.