Fugaz: Igor Eškinja

Eškinja plays with reality and fiction in neutral spaces, with primary colors or with gray and white, using poor materials for his installations, like scotch-tape and dust, coming from everyday-life. Eškinja gives attention to problems related to visual way-of-thinking, to perception, to the symbolic space of the gallery and its complex relationships with art world.

Igor Eškinja was born in Rijeka (Croatia) in 1975 and studied Fine Arts in Venice (Italy) until graduation in 2002. Since his very first works, Eškinja focused on the so-called “visual experiences”: the leading role of his exhibitions is not played by the object but by the audience, as the artist literally plays with our expectations and our perception of third dimension.
Eškinja tries to create situations at the same time worrying and amazing, critical and subversive, realizing little and simple interventions in the exhibiting space, stretching out to minimalism concerning the choice of materials and the expressiveness. The only truly important thing is the observer and his perceptive experience throughout the temporariness of the exhibition, instead of the real and persistent existence of the object. Eškinja’s works are declaration about the falseness of vision, relativity of reference systems, in a complete revolution of our experience.

Compositions are two-dimensional, perfectly treated in the details using simplicity to create metaphors and symbologies. The fleeting of the title is the quickness of perception and its precariousness, the illusion of reality, the transitory of human reference systems in a world made of images, perceptive habits, and fossilization of the external relationships. In actuality Eškinja’s installations are also fleeting, sometimes they are even destroyed at the end of the exhibition, reinvented with different materials in another combination of elements.

Recently Eškinja has participated to the 3rd Biennial of Prague and he will have a personal show in 2008 at CAB of Burgos.

In this exhibition ADN Galeria presents a series of pictures, a meditation on the issue of space and its altered perception in a fantastic dimension, and installations, as the carpet made by using dust picked up from his room.