Tag: Peruško Bogdanić

Peruško Bogdanić, Parsifal, 1994

Peruško Bogdanić
Parsifal, 1994
stone, carving
176 x 35.5 x 30 cm
MG-6498

Peruško Bogdanić’s sculpture Parsifal, created in 1994, is composed of stacked pure geometric bodies. Following the form of a totem, Bogdanić stacks two elongated cubes one above the other, culminating with a sphere at the top. By condensing the form, he aligns himself with the late modernist primary, pure form characterized by a departure from narrativity.
Croatian sculptor Peruško Bogdanić (1949, Hvar) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1976. He worked as a full professor at the Academy from 1995 until 2007, and served as its dean from 2012 to 2014. Since 1996, he has been a mentor and, since 2002, the artistic director of the Montraker International Student School of Sculpture in Vrsar. Bogdanić joined the postmodernist movement and primarily created works in wood and stone. By combining a constructivist approach with associative, organic forms, he paved new paths in sculptural considerations at the end of the 20th century. He has staged numerous solo exhibitions in Hvar, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Minneapolis, Dubrovnik, Berlin, Detroit, Rovinj, Split, Vienna, Rijeka, Klanjec, and Skopje. He has also received numerous awards, including at the Youth Salon (Zagreb, 1982), the Triennial of Croatian Sculpture (Zagreb, 1991), the Biennial of Sculptural Drawing (Budapest, 1992), and the Croatian Drawing Triennial (Zagreb, 1996). He has created several public sculptures in Sisak, Zagreb, Labin, Edinburgh, and Poreč.

Text: Lorena Šimić, trainee curator of the National Museum of Modern Art © National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb
Translated by: Robertina Tomić © National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb
Photo: From the Artist's archives

Peruško Bogdanić , The First Heretic, 1990

Peruško Bogdanić
(1949)
The First Heretic, 1990
wood, stone
height 205 cm
MG-6264

Peruško Bogdanić graduated in sculpture in 1976 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in the class of Vjekoslav Rukljač, where he started teaching in 1995 and was its dean from 2012 to 2014. He has been actively involved in running the Montraker International Sculpture School in Vrsar since 1996.
He joined the postmodernist movement and has created a sculptural oeuvre of primary and pure forms, mainly in wood and stone. He has been inspired by mythological and historical connotations reduced to symbolic premises. His organic forms of balanced textures are associative constructivist sculptures of simple forms and lyrical perceptions. Building an original sculptural value, Bogdanić has synthesised in a highly aesthetic manner the values of the traditional medium of sculpture featuring late modernist reflections. He is the author of several public sculptures in both Croatia and abroad.
Peruško Bogdanić’s minimalist sculpture The First Heretic from 1990 bears his recognisable style. Associatively totem-like, the work consists of a tall, upright and slightly curved tree log with dovetails, on top of which lies a highly stylised piece of stone which penetrates with its fractional form into space at an oblique angle.

Text: Tatijana Gareljić, museum consultant of the National Museum of Modern Art © National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb
Translated by: Ana Janković
Photo: Goran Vranić © National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb

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