Exhibition The Artist's Diary II: When an Academic Sculptor Becomes One of the Most Amazing Illustrators of Our Time...

Rich art program of Mostar Spring 2025 – XXVII Matica Days
Croatian Mostar continues on Tuesday, May 6th. In the Upper Gallery
An exhibition will be opened at the Croatian Home of Herceg Stjepan Kosača at 7 p.m.
drawings of the Artist's Diary II by Ivan Branko Imrović. The exhibition editors are
Dalibor Nikolić, who is also the author of the photographs, and Dragan Marijanović.
"I will say, then, that sculpture and painting are, in fact, sisters created from the same
"father who is called a drawing..." that's exactly what the famous Giorgio Vasari said, and Ivan
Branko Imrović is definitely one of the most amazing cartoonists of our time.
It is a great happiness and privilege to exhibit his drawings, a classic drawing diary, so
is also called a part of his drawings, The Artist's Diary II, which we will present at this year's
festival to see in its entirety as it was donated to the Croatian Home of Herceg
Stjepan Kosača and the Katarina Gallery – a total of 130 works dating back to
1970 to the present day. So, the drawings visualize an entire
life! Imrović draws with everything and anything, on everything and anything. And the man is academic
sculptor! He has already donated the series The Artist's Diary to this Mostar institution, donated
is also the Franciscan Gallery in Široki Brijeg, in fact, this artist exists to
created and gave! He gives in the land for which he came as a volunteer and
fight mercilessly. Let us welcome him to this exhibition with a well-deserved honor,
"Because such people are not born that often. Nor do they give us gifts and come often," he wrote,
among others, the exhibition editor Dragan Marijanović, thanking Dalibor in particular
Nikolić and the Kosača staff on accepting the joint organization, as it is
said, one of the most spectacular exhibitions we have seen in recent years
testified.

A WORD OR TWO ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ivan Branko Imrović was born in 1957 in Podbrđe, Popovača. He is an academic sculptor and
He graduated in sculpture from the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts in
in the class of Professor Ivan Sabolić, under whose guidance from 1983 to 1986, he also
Master workshop of Antun Augustinčić. Since 1986, a member of the ZUH, he works as
independent artist, since 1992 professor at the School of Applied Arts and
design in Zagreb. So far, he has exhibited at around a hundred major and around 50 independent exhibitions.
exhibition. Participant of the Homeland War, veteran. Lives and works in Zagreb.