The lecture is explaining the broader context of the work ‘Boxes’ (1996) from the collection of Ludwig Museum Budapest.
"In general, what has influenced my art is the sense of limitation that accompanies normal life. I mean time, money, language… in the end and the very length of life. On the other hand, as an artist, I feel that I give something every time with my work. In addition, I feel that the world is overcrowded with things and that for that reason some restraint in giving makes sense. Therefore, it is not enough to be restrained, but to use a method that limits, leaves no room for arbitrary increases. So I took over some conventions that I could use to control that giving. Here, I am thinking of the concepts of reach, negatives, symmetry, halves… which I limited the uncontrolled increase in work. These conventions have influenced the structuring of the work."
More about the artist:
Croatian artist Goran PETERCOL (1949) has been active on the contemporary art field since 1975. He played an important role in the neo-avantgarde movement in Zagreb in the 1970s: unlike his contemporaries, he did not completely break with traditional artistic conventions, but dismantled them systematically through his artworks. Till nowadays the focus of his artistic exploration remains on structure of making art, process and experimentation with materials. In addition to his paintings, spatial actions, drawings and photographs, he is best known for his light installations created since 1985. In these works, the play of light and shadow and their spatial extension creates the spectacle. "Colour is a kind of material placed on a surface (as is light)." - says Petercol.
Goran Petercol was born in 1949 in Pula, Croatia. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (1975). He worked as an art editor at the Institute of Lexicography in Zagreb and taught at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka from 2007 to 2014. His works have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions, art biennials and international art fairs in Croatia and abroad from Brazil to Turkey.
Goran Petercol's artwork titled Boxes was acquired by the Ludwig Museum in 1997 through a purchase and became part of the permanent collection. The last time the public had the opportunity to see his work was at in frame of the exhibition, "Space Matters" which was realized as part of the international collaboration BEYOND MATTER: Cultural Heritage on the Verge of Virtual Reality in 2021.
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