BIOGRAPHY

The title of the monographic exhibition of Ivo Mladošić's paintings The Imaginary of the Everyday reflects the synergy and sublimated physical reality achieved by the painter's sensibility, the gift of connecting the outside world and its emanation of energy in the compositions of amazing painting fields, most often in the technique of acrylic on paper.

After graduating from the art academy in Split, as a branch of the Swiss headquarters of the Goetheanum from Dornach, Mladošić was also sensitized by his education to a refined appearance on the trail of Steiner's anthroposophical thought. The painter, who non-canonically and inspiredly translates the program of his studies into his own artistic expression, is guided by an exceptional sense of color, its values and effects. In contrast to tonal modeling, this master of spectral, chromatic modulation, often in complementary color relationships, reaches in his playful coloristic studies the Valerian scale of the depth of blue, the mediating and restorative quality of green, or the vitality of intense, centrifugal energy of red. With color as the main bearer of information in these paintings, both through psychological influence through the characteristics of chromaticism and through its symbolism, the painter realizes a poetic quality in the excellence of the choreography of light on painter's canvases.

A portraitist of objects from the everyday environment, such as in a series of motifs of chairs, treetops or in ships, the author creates an almost enformal deconstructed microworld of sensory perceptions and a polyphonic harmony of emanated feelings on the trail of pantheism. With an almost imperceptible, narrowed narrative in interference with the visible appearance of things in gentle, swirling strokes of the brush, Ivo Mladošić achieves an inexhaustible quality of simultaneous artistic subtlety and intensity.

Vesna Delić Gozze