Dusko Sibl: 29 slika

Duško Šibl’s previous exhibition in Sarajevo was organised in city gallery Collegium Artisticum in 1989. Today, as a mature artist, he returns to the city which enchanted him in the youth to symbolically present 29 paintings created in last few years.

„Duško Šibl’s paintings and drawings“, notes Iva Körbler „continually present strong and vitalistic impuls, dramatic and emotional part of contemporary Croatian painting. This artist transformed the styliytic heritage of the secong wave of European expressionism into an authentic visual expression, characterized by the small, but significant changes and shifts in each series of paintings: from the elements of stylistic microfragments to light oscilations in the dynamics and composition of the image, as well as the emotional-spiritual atmosphere of the work.

It is no exaggeration to claim that Šibl’s studies of the human movement in the last two decades are some of the best works of this genre on our artistic horizon. The characteristic simultaneity of outline of the androgynous body movement are followed by the perspective and anatomical irregularities, which the artist consciously applies as his own manifesto. Šibl’s studies of the movement are far more than the standard artistic inspiration by the human body and imaginative or real dance.“

Duško Šibl was born in 1951 in Zagreb, Croatia. In 1977 he graduated at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, a group of Comparative Literature and Art History. He graduated painting in London in the Byam Shaw School of Art in 1982. He completed postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Art in 1986. Duško Šibl exhibited at numerous solo and group exhibitions (Zagreb, London, Sarajevo, Krk, Zadar, Split…). He lives and works in Zagreb, London and Dubrovnik.