{"id":5963,"date":"2020-11-17T17:55:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T16:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obalne-galerije.si\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2021-06-29T17:57:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:57:44","slug":"ivan-kozaric-1921-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obalne-galerije.si\/en\/ivan-kozaric-1921-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan Ko\u017eari\u0107 (1921-2020)\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-254217 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-502743 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-471854\" style=\"height: 50px; clear: both; width:100%;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-874811 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-793244 kc_col-sm-6 kc_column kc_col-sm-6\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-791325 kc_shortcode kc_single_image\">\n\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.obalne-galerije.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Ivan-Kozaric-scaled.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" \/>    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-846360 kc_col-sm-6 kc_column kc_col-sm-6\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Sunday, November 15<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2020, Ivan Ko\u017eari\u0107, a renowned Croatian sculptor and academic, who also took part to the Forma Viva Symposium, died in Zagreb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Ko\u017eari\u0107<\/strong> (born in 1921 in Petrinja) studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he also specialized under the guidance of prof. Anton Augustin\u010di\u0107. Crucial for his artistic development were a few months of study in Paris, where he had the opportunity to get to know the trends of European art. In the early 1960s, he was a member of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gorgona<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> informal art group. His exhibition history is rich, including as many as sixty solo shows and over two hundred group exhibitions, in Slovenia and abroad. Among the latter stand out the Venice Biennale, the Sao Paulo Biennial and Documenta in Kassel. His works are now part of the permanent collection of the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art. They can be found in galleries and museums all around the world, including the New York Museum of Modern Art &#8211; MoMA, as well as the Forma Viva Portoro\u017e Collection of Stone Sculptures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ko\u017eari\u0107 also participated to many sculptural symposia from the 1950s to the 1980s in the area of \u200b\u200b former Yugoslavia (Ba\u010dka Topola 1958, Aran\u0111elovac 1968, Labin 1970, Cazin, Ostro\u017eac 1975). In 1981 he was also invited to Forma viva Portoro\u017e (Miroslav Chlupa\u010d, Yutaka Okano, Bj\u00f8rn N\u00f8rgard, Leonard Rachita, \u0110jor\u0111ije Crn\u010devi\u0107).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following his artistic expression defined by reductionism and abstracted sculptural form, he carved a statue entitled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Stone<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. His minimal interventions, the schematic play of notches and the smooth detail of a rectangular dent leave the plastic form indefinite, thus opposing to the formal and elaborate statues in the immediate vicinity. The sculpture has preserved ist original position at the roadside sign, as envisioned by the sculptor, to symbolically mark the path to the core of the Se\u0161ka gallery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-69252 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-175026 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-268539\" style=\"height: 50px; clear: both; width:100%;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obalne-galerije.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obalne-galerije.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obalne-galerije.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obalne-galerije.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obalne-galerije.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.obalne-galerije.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5966,"href":"https:\/\/www.obalne-galerije.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions\/5966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obalne-galerije.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obalne-galerije.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obalne-galerije.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obalne-galerije.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}