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Artist Statement:
I was born in Croatia on May
4th 1944. I have been painting
since 1972 and I've had 27
solo exhibitions. I've also
taken part in many group
exhibitions. My paintings
found place in many gallery
holdings, as well as in
private collections. I am also
a member of the Croatian
Society of Fine arts.
Since I've started my career
as a painter I've been equally
fond of colour and line. My
paintings are almost always on
the border line of the
abstract and many of them are
completely abstract, with the
accent on the expressive
approach.
My work is mostly done in
cycles (e.g. landscapes,
birds, nudes, masks,
messages...). This makes it
possible for me to work on the
subject in an analytical way,
form its very beginnig to the
symbiosis in a sign.
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Reviews for Stanko Posavec:
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"What is Posavec´s painting like, from the points of view of the experience it gives, its content, formal morphology and technique? Above all, and in the case of each painting, it is firstly a lyrical-associative record (search) of maximal (and somehow always rich) pictorial saturation. This rich, convincing, pictorial splendour of the "accent" and "environment" of the motif (bird) is in function of the lyrical questions "if it so", "if it were" and "if it will be."
Vlado Buzancic ("Little Birds" cycle, catalogue, 1981.)
"So, where does it dwell, the art of an artist who obviously worked more on painting then on reputation? One may, indeed, say: "in playful imagination and creative fantasy"…His painting has no quality of an affective rictus, but of a painfully tamed forming and material energy, which is the expression of Posavec´s unquestionable sensibility, both for medium and form."
Ive Simat Banov ("Stormy Times" catalogue, 1986.)
„Surfaces of his works are the result of the modern painting experience. So, if we single out a detail or even a bigger part of Posavec's painting, we shall get a part of what we call pure abstraction. Usually these are stratified parts of the work. First they get imbued with paint and then vividly lined whit changing intensity. Line is an inseparable part of it all. Expressive tension comes out of the relationship between the well-balanced surface and the inconsistent line.“
G. Quien (Catalogue for „Paintings“, 1989.)
„Without disputing any of the earlier embraced premises of his art, in a magnified frame Posavec is making use of a dual aproach: spontaneity and rational analysis and, at the same time, combining association and narration, grotesque sceneries and expressively built-in chromatic scores of powerful energy radiation.“
R. Vukovic (Catalogue for „'Dialogues' and 'Butterflies' „ 1997.)
„His masks are doubtlessly archaic patterns revived through internalization (individual appropriation) and a look-back which is the very paradigm of the Post-Modern art. The artist makes moves that are sensible and justified in their incoherence. His intuition tells him that in an environment like this a painting is created by neutralizing a deeper meaning, that is sliding between irony and humor.“
Z. Rus (Catalogue for „The Face od the Mask“, 2002.)
„The dialogue between sign and pulsating surface, between line and surface defined form firmness and vivid chromatic intendness creates the basic essence of a new painting cycle by Stanko Posavec. It resembles a diary from a very dynamic time, but in fact it is a logical continuation of the artistic expression of his palette so far. In composition of different color resonance and form-based tension Posavec imagintively creates visually exciting quality in which every cycle stands for a new kind of rounded singularity expressed through a collision and harmony of coatings, i. e. through a touch of its structural components.“
S. Spoljaric (Catalogue for „Messages“, 2005.)
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