Artist

Igor Eškinja

Born in Rijeka, 1975 and lives in Lives and works in Rijeka, Croatia

Igor Eškinja constructs his architectonics of perception as ensembles of modesty and elegance. The artist ‘performs’ the objects and situations, catching them in their intimate and silent transition from two-dimensional to three-dimensional formal appearance. Using simple, inexpensive materials, such as adhesive tape or electric cables and unravelling them with extreme precision and mathematical exactitude within strict

spatial parameters, Eškinja defines another quality that goes beyond physical aspects and enters the registers of the imaginative and the imperceptible.

The simplicity of form is an aesthetic quality that opens up a possibility for manipulating a meaning. It derives, as the artist states, from the need for one form to contain various meanings and levels of reading within itself. The tension between multiplicity and void constitutes one of the most important aspects of Eškinja’s mural ‘drawings’ and seemingly installations. A void is still an active space of perception; it does not conceal; it comments on the regime of visibility, it invites the viewer to participate in the construction of an imaginary volume in an open space.

The temporary nature of the artist’s spatial structures and the ephemeral quality of his carpets (where ornaments are carefully woven out of dust) manifest a resistance to the dominant narratives of institutional apparatus and socio-political order.

Igor Eškinja studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. His works was shown, among others, in Manifesta 7, Italy; Alberta Pane Gallery in Paris and Venice, Italy; Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg; Museum

of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; MAC/Val, Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France; Federico Luger Gallery, Milan Italy; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMSU), Rijeka, Croatia; Museum of Perception, Graz, Austria; MAC, Lissone, Italy; ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain; Bank Austria Kunstforum; Power Plant Gallery; Marta Herford; 2nd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art; Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos; FRAC Pays de la Loire, France.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
A Bartleby
With artists Marie Denis, Igor Eškinja, Léonard Martin, Davide Sgambaro, Lucia Veronesi
25 Sep 2021 - 06 Nov 2021
Alberta Pane
Venice
Exhibitions
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
The online-only exhibition initiates from the words of Shakespeare's sonnet
20 Mar 2020 - 13 Apr 2020
Alberta Pane
Venice
Exhibitions
Les yeux qui louchent
The second show at recently opened Venetian space by Alberta Pane, featuring works by Igor Eškinja, Fritz Panzer, Manuela Sedmach, Michele Spanghero and João Vilhena, curated by Daniele Capra.
30 Sep 2017 - 23 Dec 2017
Alberta Pane
Venice
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