ALEM KORKUT
RAIN
18 .03 - 15.04.2005               

biography

Galerija Balen is pleased to present the Zagreb artist, sculptor Alem Korkut, who on this occasion has his first solo exhibition in Slavonski Brod.

For the exhibition Rain, Alem Korkut (1970) is showing new works that thematically mark a shift from the human figure and portraits characteristic of the artist's recent production, towards sculptural consideration of the representation of nature.

Alem Korkut emerged as one of the most inventive sculptors of the young generation in Croatia. He has especially attracted critical attention for his use of new media to research the methods and processes of traditional sculpture, which he employed in the cycle of works entitled Ego-Trip.

In the exhibition in Kazamat Gallery in Osjiek, in summer 2004, he exhibited the whole opus of that cycle, with the title Ego-Trip: Retrospective. Seven works were shown, made in the last three years, all of which use plaster casts of the artist's head to problematise the modern history of portrait sculpture. In that cycle belongs also the sculptural installation Ego-Trip: Hommage to Rodin, with which he won the grand prix of the Zagreb Salon of Youth in 2004. Alem Korkut was declared the best young Croatian artist of 2004 by the Croatian Association of Visual Artists.

During the exhibition, there will be organised a talk with the artist on the subject of 'Sculpture in the Digital Age.'

By showing the new and not previously work of Alem Korkut, Galerija Balen has made possible for the public of Slavonski Brod to gain insight into the most up-to-date practice of contemporary Croatian sculpture.