Alex Knapić – Infinity.
An exhibition you should not miss: sail into the unique world of Alex Knapić is creativity.
In Zagreb, the exhibition “Infinity” by the multiple award-winning Croatian artist Alex Knapić has opened, which can be viewed until December 3, 2022 at the Dalia Gallery (Praška ulica 6, Zagreb).
Alex Knapić (link: https://www.instagram.com/alexknapic/) is a well-known name in the world of art behind which are numerous international and domestic exhibitions, among which stand out exhibitions in New York (Pier/Manhattan), London ( Royal Opera Arcade Gallery), Florence (Palazzo Medici), Ravenna, Rome, Poreč, Kastav (Church of the Holy Trinity), Rijeka and Zagreb.
“This exhibition is particularly important to me; that return to Zagreb where I studied and where I had to interrupt my studies in the war nineties. Years later, I would come to Zagreb, but I still had the prevailing feeling that I had not returned to it yet, that I had just slammed the door and left like the last bum. At the end of it all, it remains a special pleasure that I returned to Zagreb knowing that I never left,” says Alex.
The solo exhibition “Infinity” contains twenty works – ten installations, seven sculptures and three acrylics on canvas, and out of a total of 20 works, 11 of them were presented to the Zagreb public for the first time.
The work “Infinity II” attracted a lot of attention from visitors to the exhibition: Istrian stone, aluminum, Venetian glass, gray and brown marble are the constructive backbones of this work, which forces us to closely observe and follow the traces of framed streams, rivers and small, precious and unique fields, which together create a unique and perfect game.
The work “Infinity colors” says that it is important to defeat your closed and darkened “terrible” third of yourself and let a better, more beautiful, more colorful part of yourself bathe the world. The simple dark background and the heavy upper third of the surface of the work becomes and is the origin and source of colors: colors arise from darkness, colors arise from fear!
The sculptures of the “Cube” series hide within themselves an endless series of filled sections that are recognized as individuals that realize the whole, but also an even more endless series of empty or emptied sections in which you have to realize your wholes yourself, because the void and its forms are equal and equally exciting part of this decomposition.
In the very name of the cycle “Infinity” one can see the infinite perfection of (in)combinable forms, unique creativity, a dynamic and exciting game of dimensioning imbued with carefully considered details.
Alex Knapić was born in Pula, and lives and works in Poreč. His focus in the business world is interior, exterior and landscape design, all of which he displays using the most advanced 3D technologies. In the artistic part of his creativity, he ranges from mosaics, painting, creating art installations and combines the techniques of mosaics and painting, both on canvas and through sculptures and compositions.
Although his work is dominated by an abstract concept of interpretation of the world, the dominant motive and inspiration are the artist is emotions translated into a visual form that changes over time, following the evolution of the feeling of the world. From perfectly precise and technological works in the world of architecture, through the memory of time and space in the world of mosaics, all the way to canvases that allow creation in the moment, the artist continues his evolution through experimentation in artistic installations in metal, bronze and wood, which are believed to and experience a new change in the search for the perfect expression of emotion.
The exhibition “Infinity” is open until December 3, 2022, in the Dalia Gallery, Praška ulica 6 Zagreb. Entrance is free.
Alex Knapić on Instagram: @alexknapic
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