Ivan Kožarić: “My studio is a resuscitation laboratory”
“Due to his controversial ideas and approach to art, Ivan Kožarić can be counted among the most interesting artists working today. He never stuck to the tried-and-true development lines of repeating the same old forms when processing sculpting matter, as this would, in his own words, put him to sleep and inhibit his creativity. He does not follow modern art currents and movements, but rather works from his intuition. Feeling as part of the universe enables him to keep an open mind towards it, as well as to humanity and nature.”
“Throughout his artistic career, Kožarić has been diligently realising his Galilean cycle “eppur si muove” and, over and over again, he has questioned the foundations of his art by consciously revising and destroying his artworks. Certainly one of his shocking acts, with which he wanted to radically interrupt his practice at the time, has to be the repainting of his entire studio in 1971, including doors, closets and objects, in gold. Indifferent to his own creative work, he refused to leave it in a conserved from” … The full article by Mateja Podlesnik, one of the curators of "In Wonderful Diversity, Unity!", the exhibition currently on display at the City Art Gallery of Ljubljana, is available for reading at the Cabinet of Curiosities (Delo daily, article in Slovenian).