Garaža Kamba

cork noun the outer bark of an oak, Quercus suber,
used for making stoppers for bottles, floats, etc.;
secondary permanent tissue of woody plants
consisting of densely packed quadrilateral cells without
intercellular space. Its thickness varies.
square noun a rectangle having all four sides of equal
length.
In the context of repeated reading between the lines
and searching for symbols, Mihael Puntarić’s exhibition
Im Spazio 2 explores the world of matter and space,
rhythms and gaps between elements, texture and
geometry, using gallery space and objects in it as
matterial of his painting. Referring to the title of the first
exhibition of Arte povera movement in Genoa in ’67,
one could say that the resistance to the artistic
standards presented at the time of the movement’s
inception correspond to the time in which artistic
production continues today, standardized by the
formalisms and glossy surfaces of polished words.
Puntarić, with his minimalism, points to the bare facts:
material – cork, wood, brick (painted white), ventilation
(metal and air passing through it); form – geometric,
square, circle; number of objects – four; without
superfluous elements. It’s not an installation, it’s a
painting. At the end of it all, the essence of everything is
what something truly is, not what blurs the eyes with
bright colors and fragrant words to see what is
artificially tailored.

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