Eight decades of age, six and a half of them dedicated to photography, have been the motive behind organizing this year’s exhibition of Ante Verzotti at the Museum of Fine Arts. Almost two decades after his retrospective in 2004, this doyen of Split’s photographic scene and holder of the honorary title of Master of Photography of the First Order, awarded by the Croatian Photographic Association in 2008, is about to present his work at the same museum with the exhibition SEEKERS OF MEANING, in wish being to symbolically conclude his long public career. Although still agile and committed to his vocation, he decided, prompted by his age, to “say goodbye to Split’s audience in time and with dignity.” He spiced up this idea with the wish it should happen in the building where he was born in 1942, as the Museum of Fine Arts is located in the renovated and extended building of the oldest hospital in Split.

Ivana Petan (1974, Zagreb) has for the last two decades built a specific artistic approach to working with clay and has gained a pronounced place within the ceramic art scene in Slovenia through her work in the field of art and applied ceramics. Starting from the directness of contact and work with material, the author’s notion of the creation of an artwork is embodied in her personal relation towards the experience of life and world in general.

Ambient installation Fra Didak’s Signpost to Salvation (Adoration of St Domnius) by visual artist Matko Trebotić, will be exhibited in the Chapel of St Arniro, co-patron saint of the city of Split, ahead of the Feast of St Domnius. The artist approaches the celebration of the city’s patron saint on a symbolic level, opting for a simple solution with a universal echo, the Greek cross, which points to the dual symbolism of the cross inherited from the advent of Christianity and the first persecution of Christians, martyrdom and holiness, referring to the Salonitan martyred Bishop St Domnius and the Herzegovinian benefactor Fra Didak Buntić. Matko Trebotić, who even after half a century of continuous work shows no signs of lacking either will, inspiration or stamina, has recently shown this new work for the first time and has won first prize in the competition marking the centennial anniversary of Fra Didak Buntić’s death, which is going to be commemorated with an exhibition at the Franciscan Museum and Gallery in Široki Brijeg.

Ivana Dražić Selmani, academic painter and multimedia artist based in Dubrovnik is showcasing an ambient installation titled “Horizons of Closeness” that thematizes the concept of the “horizon”, a line of demarcation that, as the artist herself says, is actually “atopic” and indeterminable.The artist has been preoccupied with the horizon for the past several years, and the showcased work presents a version of “The Horizon of Reminiscence”, a monumental ambient installation set up in the Sponza Palace in 2020.

Installation A possible landscape (Split version) is a part of the project Exhibition continues which focused on Aballi's work of the past fifteen years and presented journey through his aesthetic preferences in contemplating the conventional systems of production of the work of art.