Overview of the art in the villas
The villas offer a unique look at the recent history of the Croatian art scene and its authors: Bane Milenkovic, Tomislav Buntak, Grgur Akrap, Ivan Picelj, Fedor Fischer, Bozica Dea Matasic, Emil Trutanic, Stjepan Sandrk, Helena Janecic, Martina Grlic, Goran Parlov, and others.
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The following are some of the works of art present in Art Villa Mara and Design Villa Mala Mara:
Bozica dea Matasic
Ms. Matasic was a chief curator in multiple art galleries in Croatia, and had more than 15 standalone exhibitions and more than 40 collective exhibitions. Ms. Matasic is teaching sculpting at the Arts academy in Osijek. She is a winner of about ten Croatian and international awards, and also an author of numerous projects that encompass various forms of installations, land art interventions, and ambient art with pronounced multimedia elements.
Design Villa Mala Mara - Bozica Dea Matasic
Emil Trutanic - Art Villa Mara
Emil trutanic
His work focuses on shaping stone figures. Mr. Trutanic loves transforming stones from hard and cold objects into works which are soft, worm and envoke positive feelings. Since his early creative work, Emil has been captivated by stones and abstract stone sculptures with hints of figurative organic-biomorphic forms. In his works, he always demonstrates a preoccupation with the world around him, where motifs from the underwater and overwater realms serve as means of expression. Emil lives and works in Split and Brač.
Stjepan Sandrk
Stjepan Šandrk is one of the most prominent Croatian artists of the younger generation. He is known for his ability to combine traditional painting techniques with contemporary themes and media. He uses various techniques, including oil on canvas and watercolor, to create his works. He likes to view paintings as a medium that documents certain events and emotions. His work is a result of digital manipulation which is later transformed into real paintings.
Stjepan Sandrk - Art Villa Mara
Helena Janecic
Artist Helena Janecic prioritizes the female protagonist, placing women in visual narratives of confidence, self-awareness, and reimagined tradition. Her work ranges from large-scale paintings to graphic, comic-book-inspired drawings. She graduated from Furman University in the United States and earned her master's degree in 2007 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.
Helena Janecic - Design Villa Mala Mara
Helena Janecic - Art Villa Mara
Design Villa Mala Mara - Martina Grlić
Martina Grlic
Martina loves revisiting the recent past so she often creates paintings based on old photographs. Even though she deals with the past, her work is modern, both in concept and performance. one of the most famous young Croatian artists, exhibits from Moscow to New York…
Martina Grlić - Superstrip Maxi 2
TOMISLAV BUNTAK
Even in a very brief résumé of Buntak‘s present work, two things should be accentuated. Primarily, not many representatives of Croatian modern art have in such a distinct manner reinterpreted the tradition of sacral art. Employing the popular culture imaginarium in depicting Christian topics and motives, Buntak proved that dogma is not of much use in artistic representation. On the
other hand, in an exclusive history, not only of Croatian modern art, maybe no one has so consistently and clearly almost as in a blueprint set the motive of escapism as the main topic of his work.
Buntak’s work portrays the possibilities of human existence – of society as it could be. Whether dealing with a religious theme or a more secular subject, like the celebration of May Day (International Workers’ Day in Croatia), Buntak’s work is united by the universal motif of utopia. His handling of line gives the impression of a quick sketch, of an unfinished work, lending a certain ambiguity to his elongated figures and a wavering sense of movement to his paintings. Lyrical and dreamlike,
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Art Villa Mara - Tomislav Buntak
Art Villa Mara - Bane Milenkovic
BANE MILENKOVIc
He exhibited at about 80 individuals and more than 130 collective shows at home and aboard (USA, Israel, Germany, Canada, Austria, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Morocco, Turkey, Slovenia and Russia). He graduated from The Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1988. Today his oeuvre has a unique position within contemporary Croatian painting because it continues the line of some of our most important landscape painters.
Upstairs suite bedroom is completely dedicated to Bane Milenkovic’s work
GRGUR AKRAP
This young but already established artist has built a recognizable and authentic painting manuscript. a talented and gifted painter, as evidenced by the awards and recognitions he has received for his work so far. Akrap belongs to the younger generation of Croatian painting focused on figuration. His painting is characterized by an emphasized figuration which he interprets in the spirit of tradition but in a modern way.
Art Villa Mara - Grgur Akrap
MIA MARAKOVIC
Mia enrolled in undergraduate studies at the Art Education department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where she graduated in 2014, earning a bachelor's degree in art education. She enrolled in the Master's studies in the same year. In 2016, she was presented with the Rector's Award for her „Life Beneath the Sun“ project. In 2017, she won a special award from „Student International Art Biennal“, Skopje, Macedonia.
Her works are part of about twenty private and several gallery collections (World Gallery of Drawings, Skopje), and as part of the „Erste Fragments 12“ project, hers was one of the bought-off pieces. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists.
She manages children's art workshops in Zagreb, Rovinj (Mare Center), Srebrenica (Cesvi Association and the Srebrenica Youth Centre), Potočari (children's boarding school Srebrenica and the Leptir Association of Parents of Handicapped Children and Youth), Construction School Čakovec, and the workshops at the Faculty of Law, social studies 2016. She created two pieces of temporary intervention art in 2016; „The Tree of Plenty“ and „The Tunnel of Good Wishes.“
Design Villa Mala Mara - Mia Marakovic
MIROSLAV KATALINIC
Miroslav is a Dalmatian sculptor who graduated from the Academy in Split. His "drawing in space" is displayed in front of the artwork of Božica Dea Matasić in the upper suite of Villa Mara.
nenad MarasoviC
Nenad is a local painter from Zagreb who spends most of his time on the island Vis. His small atelier and gallery are seven minutes away from the Villas, on the pier of a lovely part of the town, Kut. His paintings are the most recognizable by vivid colors and sea and island scenery.
You can see the most of artworks in both Villas wright here on this slide show:
