Katamaran Art

Curator: Iris Slade

Opening: July 2nd 2020 at 9 p.m.

During his public art life which began in 1956, Vasko Lipovac received 28 awards for his sculpture, prints, monuments in public spaces, painting, drawing, illustration, scenography and lifetime achievement, exhibiting in almost a hundred solo exhibitions and over 200 group exhibitions. Split's favorite and one of the most popular Croatian contemporary artists left this world 14 years ago, leaving us with an enormous, inspirational opus and, today, each new display of Lipovac's works raises special interest with the audience.

Ivan Posavec: Kravata Gallery, Jelsa Jun 26 — Jul 15 / Museum of Fine Arts, Split Jul 23 — Aug 11

Nina Ivančić: Kravata Gallery, Jelsa Jul 17 — Aug 9/ Museum of Fine Arts, Split Aug 13 — 30

Vasko Lipovac: Kravata Gallery, Jelsa Aug 11 — Sep 13 / Museum of Fine Arts, Split Jul 2— 21

This year's Katamaran Art will be launched on Friday, June 26, 2020, with the opening of Ivan Posavec’s exhibition at the Kravata Gallery in Jelsa.

For the third consecutive year, art is traveling on one of the busiest catamaran lines in the Adriatic, connecting Split and Jelsa. Since 2018, when Katamaran Art sailed for the first time, locals, tourists and goods have been joined by works of art and artists who are convinced that the summer heat, fiestas and siestas don't affect people's interest in such content. The same belief was shared by the initiators and organizers of the project - the Jelsa Municipal Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Split - while tailoring a program with three exhibitions that are alternately set in Jelsa and Split during the summer months.

ART LIFE IN SPLIT, 1919-1941

CHAPTER 2: IN THE SHADOW OF A DICTATORSHIP

Curators: Božo Majstorović, Iris Slade

Having presented a reconstruction of the First Dalmatian Art Exhibition (1908) in 2010, Museum of Fine Arts Split has decided to take a step further in time and focus, in a kind of exhibition diptych, on the interwar art scene in Split. In the Shadow of a Dictatorship is the second part of the exhibition project Art Life in Split, 1919-1941, and covers the time from the erection of a monument to Gregory of Nin on the Peristyle in 1929 until the outbreak of World War II in 1941. The exhibition will feature over 300 artworks (paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures) by 93 authors from the Museum’s holdings. The first exhibition, entitled In the Gap Between Myth and Reality, realized in 2016, presented the first interwar decade.

The Museum of Fine Arts invites you to follow our new exhibition project titled A View from the Inside that will be presented every Friday, starting with April, 17th 2020 on our Instagram and Facebook profiles. We have invited our faithful collaborators – artists to share with us their views, preoccupations and thoughts about the current situation we are in.

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.