Lovran artist Boris Kačić will exhibit his latest works at the Jure Šporer Art Pavilion in Opatija. The opening of the exhibition, titled "Between Grotesque and Harmony", is scheduled for Thursday, 12 November at 19:00, and the display will remain open until 13 December.
For the exhibition, Kačić has prepared around 40 works, mostly of larger format, created in the technique of acrylic on canvas. He has often "built" various details into his paintings, using collage and other techniques in the process. The organiser of the exhibition is the Croatian Museum of Tourism, and the curator is Ervin Dubrović, who also writes about Kačić's latest works in the exhibition catalogue.
Shortly after completing his studies in fine arts at the Faculty of Education in Rijeka in the early 1990s, Kačić moved to Sweden. After 22 years abroad, he returned home to Lovran, where he has been working intensively in his native region for several years. He systematically organises exhibitions in Lovran, Rijeka, Rovinj and Punta, and also travels to Paris, where he exhibits alongside prominent Croatian painters at the Biennale Européenne des Blancs Manteaux, in the exhibition "Croatie – Paris" with Đani Božić, Zdravko Milić, Bojan Šumonja and Predrag Todorović.
At the Opatija Ex-tempore painting exhibitions, as well as at the first international painting competitions Mandrać in Volosko in the late 1980s, he won awards and recognitions. At the end of that period, at the beginning of his artistic career, his artistic starting point was abstraction. After a few years, abstraction became tiring and insufficient for him; he began to lack firm frameworks – the subject of painting, the scene and the motif.
German Expressionists, as well as Chagall and Klee, but also younger painters like Hundertwasser, became particularly close to him. He is especially attracted to human figures, more often faces than full figures, as well as figures and outlines of animals, roosters, bulls and fish. Kačić thus creates his personal world – a world that is cheerful and spirited, however Expressionist and grotesque its starting point may be.
A painter with a musical sensibility, he indeed once played and performed as a musician. In his work, as Friedrich Nietzsche would say, the Apollonian and the Dionysian meet. Boris Kačić combines both characteristics in his paintings, uniting the grotesque with harmony in a personal and distinctive way.
