Petar Grimani
PRIRODA I DRUŠTVO
Prostorna video instalacija
4. – 13.7.2025.
JAB Video room (pokraj Monada)
Rad Priroda i društvo kombinacija je videa i konkretnih objekata. Video prikazuje rezanje stabala dok su objekti smješteni u prostor ta ista debla ispilana na snimljenoj lokaciji. Dodatnu dimenziiju prostornosti daje miris čempresa samih komada ispilanih dijelova debla, kao i zvuk; prostornost u dimenziji konkretnog i taktilnog u kombinaciji prostornosti zvuka i mirisa. Na ovaj način unutar geometrije arhitekture ulazimo i u prostorni dijalog konkretnih artifakata prirode te dokumenta videa sa izložbenim prostorom. Time se propitkuje skulpturalnost kroz više dimenzija, od konkretne do one socijalne i ekološke.
Biografija:
Petar Grimani (1971.) završio je studij slikarstva u Splitu i Firenci te magisterij filma i videa na Umjetničkoj akademiji u Splitu. Izlagao je na brojnim skupnim i samostalnim izložbama u zemlji i inozemstvu. Djeluje u brojnim umjetničkim disciplinama kao što su performans, slikarstvo, skulptura, multimedija, video, animacija, film, kazalište. Objavljivao je eseje i članke o umjetnosti u raznim dnevnicima i novinama; organizirao i pokretao brojne izložbe i umjetničke projekte. Područja njegovog umjetničkog interesa uključuju poslijeratne traume, migraciju, antropologiju, prirodu, društveni aktivizam, bioetiku.
Petar Grimani
NATURE AND SOCIETY
Spatial video installation
July 4 – 13, 2025
JAB Video room (next to Monade)
The work Nature and Society is a combination of video and concrete objects. The video shows the cutting of trees while the objectsplaced in the space are the trunks of those very trees that were sawn on location and recorded. An additional dimension of spaciousness is given by the smell of cypress from the very pieces of the sawn parts of the tree trunk with the spatiality of sound and smell. In this way, within the geometry of architecture, we also enter into the spatial dialogue of concrete artifacts of nature and video documents with the exhibition space. This questions sculpturality through multiple dimensions, from the concrete to the social and ecological.
Biography:
Petar Grimani (1971) studied painting in Split and Florence, obtaining a master’s degree in film and video at the Academy of Arts in Split. He exhibited at numerous group and individual exhibitions in the country and abroad. He works in numerous artistic disciplines such as performance, painting, sculpture, multimedia, video, animation, film, theater. He published essays and articles on art in various journals and newspapers; organized and launched numerous exhibitions and art projects. His areas of artistic interest include post-war trauma, migration, anthropology, nature, social activism, bioethics.
