Zdravko Toic - Painting/Paper Collage

Hiromart Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of DANGEROUS WHISPER: um, an exhibition of new works by a Croatia-born, New York City-based artist, Zdravko Toic. The show features his latest works on paper from his project “Dangerous Whisper,” and is his 3rd solo-show with Hiromart Gallery after 2 years.

Toic’s project "Dangerous Whisper” started in 2011, and the works from this project first time exhibited at Hiromart Gallery in 2011 and at fordPROJECT in New York City. As stated in the previous show, "Expressing feelings and emotional memories through a language beyond speech, the written word, or logic itself, it is impossible to escape the finality of time..." Toic pursues his visual vocabulary rooted everyday life into the abstract art. 

His recent works of the poetic abstract art invites the viewers to enjoy the changeable feelings as a mind and body changes on an everyday basis.

DANGEROUS WHISPER: um

October 25 thru. December 1, 2013

Artist:                                       Zdravko Toic

Hours:                                      1 to 7 pm, Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays (and by appointment)

                                               

Artist Statement on DANGEROUS WHISPER: um

These simple complex form(s) were inspired by looking thorough medical books and medical records. The anatomical visual shapes are underlying physical changes that take place and present new challenges. The shapes are worked and moved around within space and in the detail is to find right interjection?

Zdravko Toic, moved to the United States from the former Yugoslavia (now Croatia) as an adolescent and spent a large part of his formative years in New York City. Toic has concentrated on art related travels, visiting museums and archeological sites in Western Europe, Japan the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. He exhibited in New York City, Miami and Washington D.C., as well as abroad. His selected exhibitions include a solo show at the Connecticut- Washington Art Association Gallery and the show titled “New York: New Generation” at Palazzo della Penna, the Contemporary Art Museum in Perugia, Italy. In addition, Toic has collaborated withchoreographer Vladimir Anguelov from the Loudoun Ballet company using painting in stage set design. Their piece entitled “Emergency Ballets” debuted at the American University Experimental Theater then continued on to the French Embassy in Washington D.C. and shows in Virginia, Geneva, Austria. 

Education

American University, Washington DC- 1996, MFA, Masters of Fine Arts in Painting 

Vermont Studio Center, VT -1992/93, Artist colony for painters, sculptors and writers

College of Staten Island, S.I., NY - 1988, BS in Arts with honors

Private Study 1984-88 Milton Resnick and Patricia Passlof

Image on Top: Interjection

(24 x 24 inch)

Middle:

Results

(18 x 24 inch)

Bottom:

Anticipation

(18 3/8 x 21 inch)

The article on the exhibition is published in SANKEI EXPRESS (Newspaper) dated October 28, 2013.

The article on the exhibition is published in Yomiuri Shimbun evening edition (Newspaper) dated November 26, 2013.

The article on the exhibition is published in Tokyo Shimbun evening edition (Newspaper) dated November 29, 2013.

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