Čavrk presents one of his recent works from the on-going Carta Incognita series, which began as a graphic folder, while recently the artist has widened and enriched its formative elements through the active use of light, sound and video projections (only at openings).

 

“The style of Carta Incognita sources from the heritage of abstract geometrism, and its creation was prompted by the artist’s interest in the topography of earth’s meridians and parallels. These have stimulated his imagination together with the possibilities of travel and movement across different spaces approached and explored primarily as transcendental. Even early graphic works in this series clearly show an essential formative groundwork that is still present (with certain modifications) in his current works: glowing lines or blunt stripes cut the visual field from different angles and distances, so that the field seems to be inhabited by traces of pulsating movement; predominantly monochromatic textures of diverse strength and tone modalities create net-like optical structures with dense intersections departing to infinity. Čavrk have been developing and upgrading these kinds of visual effects also in other media while constantly and consistently preserving the basic formative manner of Carta Incognita. …

Therefore Carta Incognita presents a special subjective cosmography in which the suggested proximities and distances of imaginary space can be read as a metaphorical key to the doors of spirituality.” (Fragments of Matjaž Brulc’s text for the exhibition in the Simulaker Gallery, Novo Mesto, 2012.)

 

After his education in Sarajevo and Zagreb, the graphic artist, sculptor and painter Hamo Čavrk (born in 1950 in Sarajevo, Bosnia) completed his post-graduate studies of graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana (in 2007). He works as senior lecturer at the Graphic Art Department of the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka (Croatia). He lives and creates in Zagreb and Novo Mesto.