Viktor Popović
Viktor Popović is an artist living and working in Split, Croatia where he is the head of the Painting Department of the Arts Academy. In his work he often uses found objects and raw industrial materials in installations that probe the relationship between artwork (or object), audience, history of the exhibition space, and the environment or location of the gallery itself. Popović’s latest work is the part of artistic research of Modernist heritage of socialist period in former Yugoslavia, the project that was started in 2015 and focuses on the re-contextualization of the 1960s architecture in Split, Croatia. The work is a hybrid between photography and light installation. It consists of the digital prints of archival photographs and constructional elements of installation such as fluorescent light tubes and photo color correction filters that transfer the archival material into the new artistic context. The work questions the position of personal and social memory in relation to the heritage of modernist architecture. Perceiving from present-day post-transitional degradation of many layers of society this work speaks to the lost utopian projects if only to question and remind of the forgotten values.
Popović was born in Split, Croatia in 1972, which is where he …
Viktor Popović is an artist living and working in Split, Croatia where he is the head of the Painting Department of the Arts Academy. In his work he often uses found objects and raw industrial materials in installations that probe the relationship between artwork (or object), audience, history of the exhibition space, and the environment or location of the gallery itself. Popović’s latest work is the part of artistic research of Modernist heritage of socialist period in former Yugoslavia, the project that was started in 2015 and focuses on the re-contextualization of the 1960s architecture in Split, Croatia. The work is a hybrid between photography and light installation. It consists of the digital prints of archival photographs and constructional elements of installation such as fluorescent light tubes and photo color correction filters that transfer the archival material into the new artistic context. The work questions the position of personal and social memory in relation to the heritage of modernist architecture. Perceiving from present-day post-transitional degradation of many layers of society this work speaks to the lost utopian projects if only to question and remind of the forgotten values.
Popović was born in Split, Croatia in 1972, which is where he currently lives and works. An MFA graduate of Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, he has been awarded a number of distinguished grants and awards including the Art Omi Residency Program at Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, New York; and the ArtsLink Residency Program at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in Portland, Oregon. His work has been collected by major public institutions throughout Croatia, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Museum of Contemporary Art in Split, and Gallery of Fine Arts: Civic Museum Zadar.
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Museum of Contemporary Art , Zagreb, Croatia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Split, Croatia
Gallery of Fine Arts – Civic Museum Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
