Boris Bucan - Greetings From Rovinj
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Until the end of July, Boris Bučan will have an independent painting exhibition in the big hall of the Native Museum of the Town of Rovinj under the name of ''Greetings from Rovinj – Un saluto da Rovigno"
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Until the end of July, Boris Bučan will have an independent painting exhibition in the big hall of the Native Museum of the Town of Rovinj under the name of ''Greetings from Rovinj – Un saluto da Rovigno''. One of the most prominent Croatian contemporary art painters presented himself with floral motifs dominated by stalks of grass, corn and cactus, and the key to their watching and understanding is in associations, explained museum curator Dario Činić. The statement was best illustrated by the example of the cover of Bučar's catalog with the inscription ''Greetings from Rovinj'' and a photo of the Dr. Martin Horvat Hospital complex.
As it happens, pointed out Sošić, this is the fourth time in the past twenty years that Boris Bučan exhibits in this Rovinj temple of culture. The first time was in 1984, when he presented himself with a cycle of posters under the name of „Fair Play“ and „Sunday in the Country“, and the last time was in 1997 with the exhibition entitled ''The Train''.
Art historian Margarita Sveštarov Šimat wrote about the last exhibition entitled ''Greetings from Rovinj'': “The grass is the key, the topos and the embryo of this cycle. Not because we want to associate it by some stylistic phylogeny with Corn, Agave, Cacti and Palms, but because regresus ad uterum takes place in the depth of its stalks, in the restoring and healing green color of its therapeia, a return to the center of invisible events of the green archetypal and mythical imagination.
Grass is a monocotyledon. It sprouts in just one stalk (like the first move of the paintbrush) and determines itself. It reproduces and lives an internal life among gigantesque linear hyperboles of gesture. It covers the landscape, determining its nature and topography. It is a narcissistic view of the image, its lusciousness and its pleasure. The female principle of the Venus' green domain, with the artist's red signum hovering above it, radiating heat from the corner.
Boris Bučan has received numerous domestic and international awards, including the Life Achievement Award.
Since 2006, he has been a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. His works are displayed in the most prominent museums and galleries in the world, and his Bird of Paradise poster from 1983 was on the cover of the catalog for The Power of the Posters exhibition at the V & A Museum in London.
