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P_3 is a platform for young, unestablished, while interesting artists. we decided not to have a permanent exhibition space but to intervene with exhibitions, within available, deserted spaces that are no longer in function, and to collaborate with other gallery spaces. we bring together artists and develop new ideas through research of the parallel art forms, creation, and the demonstration of the process of making an art work for which we organize exhibitions.on our first exhibition in the kranjčar gallery we will present three artists: igor taritaš, goran novaković and lonac.authors of the platform_iva bulat_iva ćurić

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to initiate the formation and display of art works outside gallery spaces and to reanimate blight spaces are the main components of the concept behind p_3. artists intervene with their work within a given space, without its previous reconstruction in the sense of decoration and renovation, where the architecture of the space suggests the form of the art works. the artists are connected by the concept of the display but not by the sensibility of their own expression, which results with the same starting point and a different structure of the art work. each artist interprets the space on one's own way, and through suggestion provokes certain conditions and diverts attention to observable contents related to personal sensibility. the esthetic of the walls, floors, ceilings and the 'inherited' materials of the space are transformed to a certain gallery dimension, which with its contents provokes the reinterpretation, creation and existence of art works. getting into direct contact with the material of space, interpreting it through the art work, emphasizes the development of a homogenous tissue between the space and the works which results in their interdependence.  

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hebrangova 5

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p_3 exhibition in the Kranjčar gallery

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p_3 exhibiton in the Kranjčar gallery

on our first exhibition in the kranjčar gallery we presented three artists: igor taritaš, goran novaković and lonac.

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p_3 artists_goran novaković

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p_3 artists_goran novaković

i think that creative work should be based on the constant search and exploration, both in technical terms and theme wise.  it is difficult for me to define my complete work  because every painting, or series of paintings, carry its own stories and reasons. i try to escape from my own technique of painting which, i think, can often just limit us, although it is not possible to completely avoid it. the paintings that i am currently working on are a combination of surrealism and photorealism, sometimes these works are autobiographical or they just tell of impressions and thoughts from life. i try to show them through allegories and in that way, maybe, come closer to each observer. the setting is omitted so as the focus is on the motive, which, depending on the painting, speaks of memories, expectations and promises that we gain trough our childhood and that are often not as simple nor as true. parallel to my approach and development as a painter is my graffiti writing which i have been pursuing for the past sixteen years and which i consider to be an extension of my education,  where one’s train of thought is somewhat different from that of classical painting and in joining these two aspects.

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p_3 artists_lonac

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p_3 artists_lonac

i have perused street art intensively for the past four years. starting from classical graffiti and simple, stylized characters, familiarizing myself with spray as a medium, i slowly started moving away from the “specified” norms of this culture and i attempted to focus more on the mere possibilities of spray as a painting “tool”. my canvases were, form the very start, city wall which would, with time, increase in size. i would dare say that i am currently interested in combining photorealism with the abstract background of the city walls whose incompleteness is sometimes part of the esthetic principle. i do not aspire towards literal copying of a photograph but i transfer parts of it to the wall, and so creating characters which become some sort of a personal iconography – storytelling walls. i found the replacement for old deteriorating walls in damaged skateboards which shapes i convert to fish bones – a motive that i also often use on the streets so as to tell one of my stories.

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p_3 artists_igor taritaš

the spaces in which we reside possess an energy that affect us as spiritual beings. this energy lead me to paint empty spaces of surreal and melancholic atmosphere. the perspective, as an inevitable element and method of perception of space, leads us to perpetuity. with perspective and geometric surfaces i gradually build paintings that create a surface and third dimensional interaction. the interiors are stripped off inessential elements, in which often appear certain exterior components such as architecture, rails, roads. with scraping, expressive color dripping and stained surfaces on my paintings i try to create an illusion of real space intertwined with inner spirits.

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igor taritaš