Croatia

Dubravka Lošić has developed a rich and diverse body of work grounded in a modernist formal vocabulary shaped to a postmodern aesthetic program that fosters artistic freedom, subjectivity and inventive reworkings of traditional disciplines in dialogue with the legacy of the avant-garde. Her thematic focus articulates a dramatic sense of existence through subtle references to personal, familial and local narratives, with particular emphasis on freedom and independence as cultural values inseparable from her native Dubrovnik.

Developed in parallel over decades, her cycles – “Tondo”, “Libertas Bells”, “Rosary”, “Sharks”, “Imago Anima”, “Alba Albula” and “Paris Rains” – span a wide range of artistic approaches, from oil on canvas and expressive figuration to gestural abstraction, monochrome, Art Informel, collage, metal objects and textilebased painted sculptural collages.

Lošić’s exhibiting strategy rests on the careful alignment of formal and conceptual qualities of each cycle with the semantic and spatial character of the exhibition context, resulting in installations that evolve from one site to another. Eschewing didactic pathos, her work translates trauma into form, affirming art’s essential emotional, sensory and subjective force.