Wednesday | 16. July. 2014

OPENING OF A SOLO EXHIBITION BY PREDRAG SPASOJEVIĆ

The Serbian Cultural Centre will host the opening ceremony of the exhibition of festival posters by Predgrag Spasojević, the best known author of the Pula Film Festival visual identity, entitled The Guardian Spirit of the Festival, on Thursday, July 17, at 20:00 h. The exhibition will be opened by art historian Jerica Ziherl. Guitarist Henk Verdonkschot will provide a musical accompaniment.

‘Spasojević started collaborating with the Pula Film Festival, the then Yugoslav Film Festival, already as a student of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. In 1984, he designed his first poster, The Candy-Arena, continuing with a series of visual solutions until 1991. He approached the 33rd edition of the Pula fest in an unconventional and witty manner, composing several rows of theatre seats with a scarecrow in between, spreading its hands filled with filmstrips. His poster provoked opposite reactions from critics. The different interpretations of the controversial scarecrow fell into oblivion until 1987, the year when the poster won the second prize at the Key Art Awards of the prestigious Hollywood Reporter’, says Jerica Ziherl.

Predrag Spasojević (1959 – 2010) was a graphic designer and an artist who enriched the visual identity of the Pula Film Festival with his provocative and original work. He graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts under the mentorship of Miroslav Šutej. He was a professional graphic designer and he fostered graphic arts techniques. He held solo shows in Pula, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Mostar, Poreč, Labin, Rovinj as well as group exhibitions in Croatia and around the world, from Croatian Association of Artists in Istria annual exhibitions and Ars Histriae to Ljubljana, Warsaw, Mexico and Kyoto. He received seven awards and recognitions for his work. His film posters can be seen at the Serbian Cultural Centre in Maksimilijanova 12, until Thursday, July 31.