Zagreb
NEW POSSIBILITIES - On the II Exhibition of Yugoslav Graphics
While a part of painterly production—especially that where authors insist on the “easel painting”—finds itself in a critical position, not all possibilities of graphics have been exploited. Namely, oil on canvas of a chamber format is gradually losing its roots in the soil on which it lives. Demand is falling, and this decline is very symptomatic and reflects itself, on average, even in the stylistic and methodical difficulties of painters, which difficulties give birth to the weaknesses of the work.
MART STARTS - An Event in Our Cultural Life
The TEAM of seventeen is at the start: Krsto and Željko Hegedušić, Kamilo Tompa, Edo Kovačević, and Vilim Svečnjak from the former “Zemlja”; Zlatko Prica, Nikola Reizer, Albert Kinert, and Edo Murtić from the middle generation; and Kulmer, Dogan, Kalina, Perić, Svertasek, Lipovac, and Petlevski from the youth, along with Smokvina from Opatija. This colorful and combative squad in the competition of the first league of ULUH, in the diversity of seniors and juniors, is connected in this joint combination: a contemporary visual language.
DYNAMIC BREAKTHROUGH - On the first exhibition of the "Mart" group
Those who expected stylistic uniformity or a monotonous visual choral recitation at the first exhibition of the Martovci were just as disappointed as those who expected the seventeen from “Mart” to change their visual physiognomy overnight and thus “surprise” the public. In that sense, there are no surprises at this exhibition. We recognize each author precisely; every exhibitor has remained firmly on the ground of their own problematic, and since the seventeen are not bound by any common, dogmatic views, we find no concessions at the expense of a group program in any exhibitor.