[:en]Alem Korkut – Body 11.01 – 03.02.2018. LAUBA

A series of stand-alone exhibitions combined with the title of ‘Laubi Croatian Art Today’, is one of the most prominent middle-age sculptors – Alema Korkuta, an independent exhibition entitled “Body”, on Thursday, January 11 starting at 7 PM.

Sculpture by Alema Korkuta ranges between physical, tactical and material to dematerialization of sculpture. Regardless of which material, genre, and method used, it remains faithful to contemplate the media of sculpture, transience and sculptural processuality in the sense of decomposition of matter itself or deliberate change of state in a given period.

The exhibition titled “Body” Korkut presents a series of twelve sculptures of variable forms, which form a unique thematic and formative entity that can be seen as a “sculptural installation”. It’s about some kind of “make-up models” that are lowered to our eyes like an anthropomorphic picture book. The image of the “body” reduced to the distorted geometric structure is an allegory of eroded form of physical and spiritual existence. They do not have primary informational value, but serve to form certain associations of changeability and transience. Exaggerated sculptures that seem to dissolve in the eyes of the observer are the symbol of anxiety, stagnation, transience and decay.

These vital forms are a physical manifestation of fragile organisms – simple organic forms that, with their cobblestone form, bounded by the inner space, with a pronounced empathy and emptiness become a compact organic entity. Geometric hollow blocks of the body express the essence of nature, physical existence, which inevitably strives for decay, but also of the spiritual dimension of the world that seeks to elevate, spread and advance.

ALM NEXT
Born in 1970 in Travnik. He studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo and in Zagreb where he graduated in 1997. He is the author of several public sculptures: in Pazin, a bicycle monument in Koprivnica (2005), monuments of the war veterans of the Homeland War in Sibenik (2006), Karlovac (2009) and Koprivnica (2016). He is the winner of the Grand Prize of the 27th Youth Salon in Zagreb, the annual HDLU Award for Young Artists 2004, the Grand Prizes of the Split Salon in 2009, and the third prize at the T-HT Awards 2011 prize@msu.hr. of thirty independent and about one hundred and fifty group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. From 1998 to 2007 member of HZSU. Since 2004 member of Artistic Organization Atelier Žitnjak. Since 2007 she has been teaching sculpture at ALU in Zagreb.

The Cycle of the exhibition “Croatian art today” was organized with the financial support of the City of Zagreb and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia.

Lauba – House for People and Art
Baron Filipovic’s Approach 23A
www.lauba.hr