Danilo Dučak
SCRIBBLES

| Exhibition opening:
Thursday, November 16, 2017 @ 8:00 p.m.

Institute for Contemporary Art
Trg kralja Tomislava 20, Zagreb

| The exhibition remains open until
Saturday, December 9, 2017.

| Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Saturday 12:00 – 7:00 p.m.

| The exhibition “Scribbles” is the first exhibition of Danilo Dučak at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Zagreb. In the last years, he had exhibited in Zagreb only in informal exhibition spaces such as the popular bar “Krivi put”, while in Istria where he lives, he has exhibited at local events where he usually wins some first prizes; he was also awarded for both animated films produced, video clip for the song “Autobus” by Livio Morosin from the album Motovun, and a special prize for the film “Cart”, at the 3rd ZFF. The fact that he calls them “scribbles” speaks mostly about how he is making them with ease, but also how informal and mockingly he regards the idea of displaying them in the gallery.

| The exhibition “Scribbles” is composed of a selection of drawings from the homonymous series, Motovun Scribbles and Rovinj Scribbles, in which he records everyday situations observed in his surroundings. The drawings are made on iPad Creator app that allows a completely manuscript-like expression and gives the impression that they are made on paper, as if they were pages from a “skizenbuch”, scraps from the streets or from the bars, but their number and Dučak’s perseverance give us the impression of a chronicle, commentaries or diary notes on social changes. He posts the original drawings on Facebook, amongst photographs of his dogs, hiking, a series of photographs, selfies captured in “All Toilets of the World” and common commentaries on everyday life. So we have already seen all of the drawings exhibited, but for the occasion of this exhibition, they are now produced in another media, printed on a canvas where he once more intervenes, this time by hand, directly to the surface.

| Danilo Dučak was born in 1953 in Zagreb and after completing the Academy of Fine Arts he works as an illustrator and photographer. In 1986, he moves to the US where he works as an illustrator for the next twenty years. He returns to Zagreb in 2006, and two years ago has moved to Motovun, where he now re-learns to draw, making scribbles on the iPad. He also paints with oil, a little.

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