DESA PETRICIC VLAHUTIN (Croatia) - The Path of the Squares, - at Centrul Cultural Palatele Brancovenesti, Mogosoaia, Romania (may-june 2009). photos by Ciprian Ciuclea

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The Path of the Squares
Basic geometric shapes purged of all metaphor. Accent on the materials. Equality and balance. Cold representation. Repetition. Less is more.The works of young Croatian sculptress Deša Petričić Vlahutin correspond to all these features mentioned above, characteristic of the minimal art, well-known in the 1960s and 1970s in Western culture.
Deša Petričić Vlahutin graduated the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, class of professor Peruško Bogdanić in 2006 and has a few public works in Zagreb. She is an authentic contemporary minimalist artist – in these post post-modern times - and she respects fatefully the rules and principles of minimalism in concept and formal approach. She works with classic and sometimes expensive materials without the evidence of the artist’s hand, for their direct aesthetic impact. She has an impressive vision for large sculptures destined to public spaces.
The path of the squares is in fact the story of the squares seen through drawings, models and the final result in object. With a mathematical composition Deša Petričić Vlahutin reveals the powerful presence of the squares, a physical presence given to the public without any other artistic distraction. There are no symbolic features behind the squares. They are exactly what they represent: squares. Nothing more, nothing less.
The hidden emotion of the creator invites the viewer to react. (Olivia Nitis, curator)

Desa Petricic Vlahutin and Olivia Nitis (17 May 2009)