Art colony Paradiso
Rab, a town on the island which has a century of existence and cultural interpenetration, neatly and nicely arranged his white stone architecture, blue sea and sky, green pines. Its beauty, meaning and intimacy has always been weaved out of touch of the Mediterranean, from its earliest days open to the experience with the world. A sea and Mediterranean climate have enabled him entwined with the finest threads of human life. His mnogostoljetnom spirituality and strength managed to build and maintain their cultural fabric and create bridges to roads to the art and multiculturalism.
Art Colony Paradiso in eleven years of its existence (launched in year 2000.) is in one of the leading Croatian fine art of socializing. The wealth of different visual identity summarizes the situation of contemporary art, and create communication at different levels of copyright. So far, the success of the colony contributed 178 participants from 13 countries, academically trained art professionals who represent the top of Croatian and European modern art. As a visual manifestation of colony appearances a year in three calls: the May, June and Sept. In each session Art Colony Paradiso participates 8-10 artists who reside in the colony 7 days, and by the organizers provided with accommodation, food, and painting surfaces. On the last day of the colony is organized an exhibition of works created in the gallery Paradiso, and subsequently print a catalog. Part of the artwork, authors leave the organizer who is continuously exposed to in our own and other galleries. Until now, the art colony Paradiso implemented for 31 sessions (2000. - 2011.).Rules of organization (EN, .doc),
Agreement (EN, .doc),
Question form (EN, .doc)
Like many similar meetings in Croatia and in Europe, the participants of this art workshop create and socialize outside of the atelier, in free space. Caught by impulses of Mediterranean climate and the island of Rab, they find visual expression of their own artistic perception of the world. A Rab's landscape is a challenge for everyone. Its guise is offered to artists' creative imagination, especially to those who know how to open to the charge of warm light, coloring, experience of the sea and the city. Color, line, rhythm, composition, light - by all of that we vary, we feel, we accept artists and their works. These visual elements lead us into their inner spaces and vastsness of fine art. They enable us to recognize the moment in the contemporary art in which art is no longer just an illusion, but also idea. And no matter how much we drew from modernism and postmodernism of 20th century in seeking of a pure art laws, until now they have brought to light many possibilities of expression within the abstract and figurative art and open many ways for the theory and practice. In colony in Rab they are facing the visual arts adventure and unrepeatable moment in which Art works emerge. They, on their own, electe motiv and stylistic expression. Together they create, those who are already long in the visual arts scene, recognized and established, and those with faith and effort to be recognized. The final entry thereby can be associative, or abstract, art techniques and style designation elected to the impression and liking, and interpretation of the result is often measured and confirmed by the blue of the sea and sky. So the forms and things and relationship rules in specific area are in the one moment shown as they are, and in the other moment how they should be.
Art Colony Paradiso from year to year enriches the tourist and cultural offer of Rab and leaves significant visual clue. So, It is obliged to periodical exhibitions, presentation of the works of art and authors to the public, to create exhibitions with identity, to the engagement of representation and promotion of art.
Cronology:
Year 2010.
Valentina Supanz
Diana Ana Širić
Borut Beus
Diana Šimek
Ana Sladetić
Marija Koruga
Branka Prša
Leda Lebarić
Luka Šamoci
Joško Eterović
Damir Medvešek
Ivana Gorički
Brigitte Brand
Elene Wollmann
Massimo Lomi
Robert Almaši
Miloš Prekop
Željko Zima
Iris Bondora Dvornik
Aleksandr Trifonov
Darko Bakliža
Arno Backhaus
Rudi Skočir
Andrej Pavlič
Emilija Duparova
Anita Parlov
Zlatko Kauzlarić Atač
Igor Modrić
Robert Budor
Alireza Varzandeh
Ivica Propadalo
Toni Franović
Year 2009.
Zlatko Kauzlarić Atač
Darko Bakliža
Matko Vekić
Duško Šibl
Valentino Moradei Gabbrielli
Zvjezdana Jembrih
Blaženka Zvonković
Duška Mamlić
Anita Kuharić
Marika Vicari
Jernej Forbici
Bojan Šumonja
Goran Štimac
Peter Casagrande
Nikolina Ivezić
Massimo Lomi
Duje Jurić
Nikolina Očko
Andreja Vivoda
Martina Grlić
Stjepan Šandrk
Marta Wasong
Enzo Fabbiano
Martina Buracchi
Nicolas Magnant
Arturo Melero
Karolina Kubik
Ana Lazarevska
Nicole Taubinger
Maja Erdeljanin
Stefan Wehmeier
Ernst Heckelmann
Alfredo Rapetti
Simonetta Fontani
Vitomir Kelava
Alfred De Locatelli
Year 2008.
Giorgio Altio
Iris Bondora Dvornik
Robert Budor
Piero Conestabo
Flavio Facca
Mario Gazić
Aleksander Ivanović Sine
Zlatko Kauzlarić Atač
Mirna Kutleša
Anna Maria Kram
Ana Mazoy
Damir Medvešek
Renzo Mezzacapo
Ratko Petrić
Ingrid Runtić
Max Seibald
Melita Sorola Staničić
Krunislav Stojanovski
Mare Šuljak
Martina Vrbanić
Herwig Zens
Year 2007.
Darko Bakliža
Ivana Balažević
Andrej Božić
Jelena Bračun
Armin Guerino
Petra Holasek
Zlatko Kauzlarić Atač
Valentino Moradei Gabbrielli
Valentin Oman
Petar Šalić
Nenad Vorih
Mirjana Zirdum
Year 2006.
Laura Abdulcadir
Gino Blanc
Diane Virginie Ekoe
Josip Ferenčak
Tommaso Garavini
Simone Giovagnorio
Mislav Hollós
Beti Kranjčević
Miron Milić
Davor Rapaić
Petar Šalić
Branimir Bartolović
Daniela Bikácsi
Raffaela Busdon
Alfonso Filieri
Annamaria Gelmi
Zvonimir Kamenar-Funči
Gizella Péterfy
Aleksandra Rotar
Mario Šunjić
Qing Yue
Darko Bakliža
Istvan Bálind
Mirta Diminić
Zlatko Kauzlarić Atač
Emilio Pian
Pope
Đuro Seder
Mauro Stipanov
Year 2005.
Rudi Benetik
Đanino Božić
Petar Brajnović
Milena Braniselj
Mihai Chiselita
Dino Durigatto
Danis Fejzić
Dušan Fišer
Gudrun Gatzka
Carlotta Giora
Slavko Grčko
Katerina Kalc
Zlatko Kauzlarić Atač
Željko Kranjčević-Winter
Justyna Miklasiewicz
Veaceslav Pascaru
Giuliana Racco
Ljubomir Radovančević
Giovanna Rigattieri
Nelio Sonego
Eszter Szüts
Miklos Szüts
Petar Šalić
Matko Vekić
Walter Voss
Mehmed Zaimović
Toni Zanussi
Igor Zlobec
Year 2004.
Martin Bizjak
Tomislav Pavletić
Antonija Jakovljević
Rudi Skočir
Eugen Kokot
Peter Casagrande
Andreas Pytlik
Herbert Pasiecznyk
Edin Numankadić
Heda Gärtner
Bruno Richard
Ljubomir Radovančević
Džeko Hodžić
Tea Bičić
Klavdij Palčić
Peter Huemer
Johann Julian Taupe
Zorislav Drempetić-Hrčić
Tereza Pavlović
Year 2003.
Tanja Bezjak
Jernej Forbici
Sven Nemet
Frane Rogić
Petra Ševeljević
Nikolina Vračar-Manojlović
Đuro Seder
Petar Grgec
Igor Modrić
Marijan Richter
Petra Grozaj
Vanja Tumpić
Džeko Hodžić
Andrej Pavlič
Ljubomir Radovančević
Ozren Bakotić
Alemka Đivoje
Emilija Duparova
Amra Kalender
Etko Tutta
Zoltan Hus
Year 2002.
Klas Grdić
Vladimir Meglić
Krešimir Nikšić
Vesna Pavlaković
Karina Sladović
Jasna Skorup Krneta
Blaženka Zvonković Tomičić
Munir Vejzović
Mamikon Yengibarion
Pippo Altomare
Almira Bremec
Hetty van der Linden
Bruno Paladin
Frane Radak
Nicola Spezzano
Laszlo Szotyory
Dinko Svoboda
Year 2001.
Quintino Bassani
Egidio Budicin
Franjo Ferenčak
Mirta Grandić
Giorgo Pahor
Predrag Purić
Paolo Viterbini
Jasna Bogdanović
Joško Eterović
Bogomil Karlavaris
Ivan Kožarić
Antun Vrlić
Dražen Filipović-Pegla
Sabina Miconi
Sergej Mihić
Jerica Šantej
Paolo Valle
Marigrazie Turco
Year 2000.
Morena Brnčić
Allesandro Cadamuro
Vitomir Kelava
Bane Milenković
Zdravko Milić
Mustafa Skopljak
Petar Brajnović
Tomo Gerić
Miomir Milošević
Orlando Mohorović
Miljenka Šepić
Danko Friščić