For his first solo exhibition in Split, the Irish artist Conor McGrady presents his recent series of works on paper that were created after his research trip to Split and the island of Vis in 2018. In accordance with his interest in various manifestations of social order and topics related to the control of space, people and national borders, the works exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Split research the Croatian present through the segments that McGrady has recognized as the ones surviving from the Communist era. Citing the legacy of ambitious architectural projects such as urbanistic project of Split 3 or vast network of military bunkers and tunnels on Vis, the artist examines the changes that have occurred when the utopian wishes of modernism had been replaced by political conservativism, a rightward turn and retreat into individualism. Large scale drawings show the ideological and aesthetic implications of the chosen localities explored in the broader framework of contradictions and ambiguities inherent to all power and control narratives.

Ljubo Ivančić: Kravata Gallery, Jelsa, June 25 – July 14 / Museum of Fine Arts, Split, July 20 – August 8

Edo Murtić: Kravata Gallery, Jelsa, July 16 – August 4 / Museum of Fine Arts, Split, August 10-31

Krsto Hegedušić: Kravata Gallery, Jelsa, August 6-24 / Museum of Fine Arts, Split, June 29 – July 18

Catamaran Art 2021 features exhibitions of three luminaries of Croatian modern art: Krsto Hegedušić, Ljubo Ivančić, and Edo Murtić. The works of these strong and individual modernist voices have become the most reliable testimonies of both the existential anxiety and the optimism of their time. Each of them individually, in his specific way, in a constant search for authentic expression, knew how to creatively assimilate various currents on the contemporary art scene, from new figuration through various forms of abstraction to Art Informel. Additional impetuses to this choice of artists have certainly been the birth anniversaries of Krsto Hegedušić and Edo Murtić, as well as the fact that Hegedušić never had a solo exhibition in Split.

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.