Exhibition FEJEŠ / PETERCOL in Osijek

12.11.2007

From June 9 to July 9, 2005, the Feješ /Petercol Exhibition opened in the Fine Arts Gallery in Osijek, in association with the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art, Zagreb. The show commemorated the 100th birthday of this artist, the first naïve artist of urban origins and dealing with city themes, who was born in Osijek in 1904. The exhibition was conceived as a juxtaposition of a naïve and a contemporary artist and an attempt to establish a dialogue between them. The exhibition consisted of some twenty paintings and drawings by Feješ, and a video-installation by Goran Petercol, the two parts linked by a similar theme. The aim was to bring the older artist closer to the younger generations and the contemporary sensibility, and to present the Naïve in a new context, thus opening up opportunities for new interpretations. In spite of the great difference in the media used, there are considerably stylistic and morphological similarities in the works of Feješ and Petercol: the fondness for geometry, the investigation of extremes (order and disorder), the elimination of everything narrative from the work, concentration on objects, the elimination of live beings and any traces of their corporeality at the thematic level, and the dynamic vivacity that their works both have thanks to the understanding of colour and light as fields of energy. The exhibition was devised by Svjetlana Sumpor.