The National Museum of Modern Art presents the exhibition Transformation of Wood, highlighting the importance of trees and forests for man’s survival as well as his relationship towards nature. The author of the exhibition, Tatijana Gareljić, NMMU museum consultant, has selected about 60 works by Croatian artists from the NMMU collection that reveal astonishing forms of wood as a primordial natural material in myriad of its transformations shaped over the past hundred years.

The interaction between man and trees is conditioned by man’s desire to preserve his own existence, and the history of civilization is also the history of transformation of wooden forms. When men’s need for creation and shaping surpasses utility it transcends into art. With inventive concepts and skills, the immanent properties of wood become artifacts. … (Tatijana Gareljić)

Artists:  Grga Antunac, Petar Barišić, František Bilek, Peruško Bogdanić, Iris Bondora Dvornik, Vojta Braniš, Boris Brzić, Ferdo Ćus, Ljubo de Karina, Josip Diminić, Juraj Dobrović, Dušan Džamonja, Joško Eterović, Vinko Fišter, Kažimir Hraste, Ante Jakić, Ksenija Kantoci, Dora Kovačević, Kuzma Kovačić, Ivan Kožarić, Vasko Lipovac, Dubravka Lošić, Ivan Lovrenčić, Ivan Meštrović, Matko Mijić, Sofija Naletilić Penavuša, Izvor Oreb, Šime Perić, Ivan Picelj, Branko Ružić, Petar Smajić, Damir Sokić, Aleksandar Srnec, Ante Starčević, Dalibor Stošić, Marin Studin, Juraj Škarpa, Miroslav Šutej, Goran Štimac, Šime Vulas, Josip Zeman, Zlatko Zlatić, Mirko Zrinšćak

Image: From the Transformation of Wood exhibition
Photo: Goran Vranić ©National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb