ESKINJA – PANE
Alberta Pane gallery is delighted to present the first solo exhibition of the croatian artist Igor Eškinja in her new space located 47 rue de Montmorency à Paris.
Exhibition Contracts presents a series of new works (photography and installation) that are exploring the multiple positions of an artwork between materiality and abstraction. Image become a form where different parties meet in a paradoxical and complex way.
Contract presume some intent, it starts from a need to enter in relation and recognize the other. It is also a promise that seeks to project relations in the future.
In this exhibition, Contract become a metaphor for constant transformation of materiality into abstraction and contrary in a set of non linear steps.
Igor Eškinja constructs his architectonics of perception as ensembles of modesty and elegance. The artist “performs” the objects and situations, catching them in their intimate and silent transition from two-dimensional to three-dimensional formal appearance. Using simple, inexpensive materials, such as adhesive tape or electric cables and unraveling them with extreme precision and mathematical exactitude within strict spatial parameters, Eškinja defines another quality that goes beyond physical aspects and enters the registers of the imaginative and the imperceptible. Igor Eškinja (b. 1975, Rijeka, Croatia) studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. His work was shown, amongst others, in Manifesta7, Italy, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, MAC/Val Musee d’Art Contemporain Du Val-De-Marne, France, Federico Luger Gallery, Milan, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Power Plant Gallery, Marta Herford, 2nd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Frac Pays de la Loire, Nantes. He lives and works in Rijeka.