Mochvara Gallery presents

Toni Mijač (HR): Aqueous
ambiental audio-video installation
@Pogon Jedinstvo
Trnjanski nasip bb, Zagreb

exhibition opening and artist talk: Monday, September 22nd 2014, 8pm
The exhibition is open on September 23rd and 24th from 5pm to 9pm
Free entrance

Aqueous, an audio-visual installation by Toni Mijač, a young artist from Split; a closed world of audio-visual delirium which provides the visitor with an intense experience of his/her surroundings. The complexity level of the soundscape is synchronized with the accompanying video in a way that neither element prevails, which emphasises the experience of the exhibition space as generating a state of mind which results in extraordinary emotions. The visual purity and simplicity of the water surface motif is activated by the alternating fall of water drops which create refraction waves. The sound instrument – the piano, is chosen because of the diverse spectre of tones it produces – coordinates and applies a sound to each drop falling on the water surface thus creating a minimalist sound composition rich in tone and rhythm dynamic. The instrument functions as a set of percussions, while the drops act as a drum which produces a sound effect on visual channels of various colours coordinated by their colouristic features with the tones of the instrument. The dynamic rhythm with a fast motion picture tempo and intense sound is interchanged with calming rhythmical episodes, revealing the artistic fascination with performative art forms of the theatrical and performance variety. The most effective experience of emerging oneself into the created ambiance is by standing in the very centre of the exhibition space, in the middle of the overwhelming, enormous sound-aqueous surfaces.

Toni Mijač, born in Split in 1988; graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Split, department of Film and video. His current experience was mostly gained through work on various cinematographic and new- media projects, both student and professionally run. In 2010 he took part with his colleagues in establishing the organisation Element Film and is one of the founders and lecturers of the film school for children called „Express yourself through film“, taking place in Split and Zagreb. Apart from film and new-media projects, he is actively working in the field of music videos.

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Mochvara Gallery, September 2014

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organizers: Culture Development Association “URK” + Mochvara Club & KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis
concept: KONTEJNER
curators of Mochvara Gallery: KONTEJNER | Ena Hodžić, Ivana Jelača & Tereza Teklić
technical team: Andrija Santro & Hrvoje Horvat
design: Ruta 
public relations: Ena Hodžić & Danijel Badanjak

media partners: H-alter, Kulturpunkt, Radio Student
supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb - Municipal Office for Education, Culture and Sport