In parallel with the retrospective exhibition of Ivo Friščić at its main building, the National Museum of Modern Art at the Josip Račić Gallery organises exhibition of his son, the academic painter Danko Friščić. Under the title Metagalactic 2 (and forget everything you've seen), Danko Friščić presents a cycle of recent and "upgraded" square paintings in oil on canvas, executed between 2015 and 2022. The compositions further develop painter’s well-known fascination with trash culture and the genre of science fiction, so even though they are abstract, they remind us of scenes and visions of galactic expanses and phenomena.

Danko Friščić was born in 1970 in Zagreb. He graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1997 from the class of prof. Đure Seder. Since 2006, he is lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and currently he is associate professor at the Department of Painting and also holds the position of Vice-Dean for the International and Inter-University Cooperations. He is a member of HDLU in Zagreb. He is the winner of several awards, including the HDLU award for the best exhibition in 2014. in Zagreb ("Ship of Fools" with Davor Mezak), Rovinj Art Colony Award 2017, etc. He has exhibited at aproximately 50 solo and over 150 group exhibitions in Croatia (Zagreb, Labin, Rovinj, Pula, Rijeka, Varaždin, Bjelovar, Osijek, Slavonski Brod, Knin, Split, Sinj, Šibenik, Dubrovnik...) and internationally (Rome, Paris, Florence, Turin, Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Budapest, Ljubljana, Amsterdam, Gdansk, Istanbul, Ankara, Port Au-Prince... ). His works are in the holdings of numerous private and public collections. He lives and works in Zagreb.

Photo: From the exhibition set-up. Goran Vranić © National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb, 2022