Petercol Goran: Petercol: Landscapes

Goran Petercol: Petercol - Landscapes

The monograph of Goran Petercol's works includes (Works in outdoor spaces) series Fleševi (Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, 2002), Blocks (installations, Mastekranen, Copenhagen, 2002; installation, facade of Gliptoteka, Zagreb, 2004), Signature (belongs to the series IN & OUT, KULUP, ALUKSIJE, MORIA AND ENTRANCE/EXIT - works in which the artist wondered why or whether to participate in the exhibition), Three Islands (Rovinj, 2003), Skua (installation, Carlisle Pier, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, 2004 - not yet performed), Hommage P. Manzoni (multimedia project, Adris Gallery, Rovinj, 2005) and Reflections and After Reflections (from 2005 to 2007. Petercol: "Reflections are a series of works in which I am interested in the neighborhood information; the former, which I carry in my consciousness as knowledge, and the latter, which I collect through new observation."). 

For one of the editors and authors of the text (along with Silva Kalćić), Ivana Sajko Reflections are: The artistic theme of the relationship between immediate reception and foreknowledge of the perceived extends throughout Petercol's work; whether it is about drawings, installations or projects with architecture. Knowledge helps in the reconstruction and deconstruction of what is seen. Knowledge also reveals the position of the author himself. 

Goran Petercol (1949) is a world-renowned visual artist who reached the peak of his artistic affirmation with installations with light, accepted as an original contribution to the reflection of artistic expression within the framework of the international art scene. His work varies from drawings, paintings, through site-specific installations, sculptures, video works and installations in the medium of light. 
He exhibited at numerous exhibitions such as the Trigon in Graz (1989, 1992), the Biennale in Sao Paolo (1994), the Biennale in Venice (1995) and the Biennale in Istanbul (1995), then in London at the International Symposium of Shadows (1996), Art East 2000 + in Ljubljana and Innsbruck (2000), Aspects/Positions -50 Years of Art in Central Europe 1949-1999 in Vienna, Budapest and Barcelona (2000), Lux Europa, Copenhagen (2002), Modesty in Galeria Škuc, Ljubljana (2003), Blut & Honig, Sammlung Essl, in Vienna (2003), Light Art from Artificial Light, Museum of Contemporary Art Karlsruhe (2005), etc.