One Man exibition Robi Sosic
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In Bregovitoj street, one of the most beautiful and best known in Rovinj, can be found the modest yet mystical church of St. Thomas, which for a number of years has hosted the exhibitions of many prominent Croatian and international artists.
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In Bregovitoj street, one of the most beautiful and best known in Rovinj, can be found the modest yet mystical church of St. Thomas, which for a number of years has hosted the exhibitions of many prominent Croatian and international artists.
Included in these numbers is Rovinj's own Robert Sošić, who this time around presented a very interesting exhibition under the title of "Ungranted Prayers". This young artist of unbound creativity, who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, decided to surprise the exhibit's visitors with simple yet deeply suggestive and touching christian symbolism. In the otherwise distinctively spiritual confines of this small but, in terms of presenting exhibitions, highly esteemed gallery, the author employed the transcendent snowy whiteness of homemade flour, which covered the entire floor of the church, as well as a few old and discarded church pews, as the dominant motif for this occasion.
The author added to the ambience of the exhibition by telling an interesting story about the flour, which comes from Lovree, a small town in central Istria. Specifically, one of the families living in Lovree, whose home is located inside the walls of the old and abandoned castle, set the flour-mill in motion. The mill works with the assistance of machinery 60 years old and an antiquated system of enormous wooden pipes, which results in the flour, whose production is based on the model of old traditions from this region, having the distinctive smell of wood.
Taking all of this into consideration, we came to the conclusion that this presentation - his eleventh individual exhibition - would be yet another successful creative project for this distinguished artist from Rovinj. We were able to elicit a few short comments from the artist on several subjects.
"I consider there to currently be, not only in Rovinj but throughout Istria and Croatia, a high-quality scene of young artists of whom very little is known. We urgently need to work on better communication between artists from the various regions of Croatia, not to mention Europe, because it is extremely important, not only for the development of the artists themselves, but for intra-personal and human development, especially amongst these younger artists. As far as my work is concerned, engaging in exhibitions and integrating them into specific, and by their historical significance, alternative accommodations, which for many of the more serious artists are considered the most esteemed exhibition facilities available, is demanding. In contrast with the classic art gallery, this is difficult work because the space itself, whether you want it to or not, imposes itself on your work with its powerful ambience. Consequently, this emanation of atmosphere often poses itself as a difficult barrier to hurdle for the creative act itself; however, if the creative feat is conceptualized so that it respects the laws of the space it wants to share and occupy, then the space enrichens the art and gives it additional strength and conviction."
On an interesting note, we would like to end this review by earmarking one of the messages which we could read from the dying white cover of one of the pews in the exhibition: "Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie".
