[spectre] grey) (area ::: Toni Mestrovic: Abyssos 6

[Darko Fritz]

grey) (area - space of contemporary and media art, Korcula

Toni Mestrovic: Abyssos 6

17 - 28 . 06

Oepning: Friday 17th July . 21 - 23 h

free entrance

Site-specific video installation making use of projection of  
underwater scenes in relation with the 'real' sea and its sounds. The  
seafront  is ten meters in front of the of the gallery entrance. Sound  
composition is made in collaboration with German artist Hannes Hoelzl.

from artist satatement:

As a point of departure I looked at the word abyssos (bottomless),  
which is a synonym for dark infinities and primal chaos. It was  
important for me to create a work, with the intention to open up the  
space between conscious and unconscious perception.The original  
underwater footage is combined with the images and sounds that have  
been manipulated through digital processing technology. Like a kind of  
a feedback system, “real” imagery (original video footage) is  
intertwined with artificial imagery (manipulated footage and 3D  
imagery).

Toni Mestrovic, born 1973 in Split, Croatia, graduated with a Graphic  
Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1999, where he  
produced graphic arts, sculpture and installation. Due to his interest  
in electronic audiovisual media, he studied Video/Digital Imaging at  
the International Summer Academy for Contemporary Art in Salzburg in  
1997, and completed a two-year postgraduate diploma in Media Art at  
the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne in 2004. Video, sound and  
audiovisual installations produced during Mestrovic's postgraduate  
studies explore his personal perception of the sea, and the island  
where he grew up. Since 1992, he has taken part in group and solo  
shows, as well as video festivals. Lives in Kastela and teaches at the  
Arts Academy University of Split.

website Toni Mestrovic: http://www.macaknara.hr

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contact: Darko Fritz darko at darkofritz.net / tel + 385 [0] 91.5800193


grey) (area program 2009: Lemeh 42 (Italy) . Petar Grimani  
(Croatia) .  Ivan Marusic Klif  (Croatia) . Toni Mestrović   
(Croatia) . Samuel Cepeda (Mexico) .  Nina Czegledy (Canada) and  
Marcus Neustetter (South Africa)

participants in gray) (area program: Veaceslav Ahunov, (Uzbekistan),  
Abilsait Atabekov (Kazahstan), Dunja Blažević, Boris Cvjetanovic  
(Zagreb), Gem Sqash (Adam Hyde and Ntsikelelo Ntshingila), Petar  
Grimani (Croatia), Ulan Djaparov (Kazahstan), Ivan Faktor (Osijek),  
Kontejner (Zagreb), Lemeh 42 (Italy), Faruk Loncarevic (Bosnia and  
Hercegovina), Alban Muja (Kosova), Edita Pecotić (Korcula / London),  
Ana Peraica (Split), PRO.BA (Bosnia and Hercegovina), Radioqalia (Adam  
Hyde and Honnor Hager, New Zealand), Lala Raščić (Sarajevo –  
Zagreb), Stefan Rusu (Moldavia / Romania), Tomo Savić-Gecan (Zagreb -  
Amsterdam), Slaven Tolj (Dubrovnik), Transfer (Zagreb), Goran Trbuljak  
(Zagreb), Alexandr Ugay (Kazahstan), Dražen Vitolović (Sovinjak /  
Rijeka) i Enes Zlatar (Bosnia and Hercegovina).