Josip Stošić (1935 – 2009)
17 February – 10 March 2015
P74 Gallery, Trg Prekomorskih brigad 1, Ljubljana
You are cordially invited to the opening of the exhibition Josip Stošić on Tuesday, 17 February 2015 at 19.00 at the P74 Gallery in Ljubljana.
The exhibition is curated by Janka Vukmir.
Josip Stošić was a poet, art historian and visual artist from Zagreb. His body of work influenced many other artists as well as the development of contemporary arts in Croatia. Not only is this is first posthumous exhibition it is also the first exhibition that shows an overview of his works from various periods of his career.
In his visual art works, he participated in numerous group exhibitions with artists and curators such as Boris Bućan, Zdravko Tišljar, Vladimir Gudac, Ladislav Galeta, Goran Trbuljak, Radoslav Putar, Davor Matičević, Richard Demarco. Stošić’s multimedia artistic opus includes poetry, texts, minute dramas, films, installations, 3D objects, concepts, graphic works and photography.
In 1951, at seventeen, he self-published the cult poetry book Đerdan (Necklace), which was soon after censored and prohibited. Alongside Radovan Ivšić, Bor Pavlović and Ivan Slamnig he introduced concrete poetry to Croatian arts. He studied art history and psychology and all the way till his retirement worked as an archaeologist and art historian at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb. In this role, he also made many important scientific discoveries.
In the medium of film, he worked with Darko Schneider as a screenwriter on two films in the 1970s and on several animated films with Ladislav Galeta.
During his life, Josip Stošić had only three solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. This is the first presentation of his work in Ljubljana and it brings us a completely unknown segment of a very important artistic career, one mostly unknown to the wider public.
The exhibition Josip Stošić was organized with the Institute for Contemporary Arts, Zagreb in close collaboration with his family, Karmen Stošić and Irin Stošić.
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The programme of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and by the Municipality of Ljubljana, Department for Culture.