Željko Kipke
Željko Kipke (3 March 1953, Čakovec, Yugoslavia) is a Croatian artist and painter. He graduated at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts in 1976 and after graduation, he was an associate of the Masters workshop until 1980. He was a member of the Artists' Work Community. During the 1970s he intensively worked in the medium of photography, analytically exploring its possibilities and procedurality, and later he used these procedures in his cinematographic work. At first, he painted in the spirit of primary and analytic painting, then in the 1980s he introduced an affinity towards expressivity, symbolism and the then active postmodernist surrealism, in his work. In the first half of the 1980s, he recorded short films in which he documented his own actions in public spaces and later made short cinematic stories based on dreams and coincidences. In 1993 he was the Croatian representative at the Venice Biennale, and in 2007 he was the selector of the Croatian pavilion in Venice. He writes articles and theoretical reviews about visual arts and film. He lives in Zagreb. [1]
Books: „Spokesmen of Apocalypse“ (Durieux, Zagreb, 2012); „Figure 17 – Heaven Can Wait“ (Durieux, Zagreb 2007); „Sei-khai-reich, catalogue of dreams“ (Pučko otvoreno učilište, Velika Gorica, 2006); „From February to February“ (Durieux, Zagreb, 2005); „Any Similarity with Real People and Events Is Intentional“ (AGM, Zagreb, 2004); „From Abundance to the Moon“ (Meandar, Zagreb, 1998); „Beware of Imitations“ (Meandar, Zagreb, 1993); “Guide through Subterraneus“ (Naklada MD, Zagreb, 1992); „Illuminators of the New Cycle“ (Biblioteka Quorum, Zagreb, 1989). [2]
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