Izvor
Pende is a Croatian contemporary artist whose painting style changed from
figurative expression to his individual fictitious subject abstraction. Upon
realizing something was missing from figuration, he decided to make a radical
change, continuing his career in a completely new direction. However, the
transition was not as smooth as he would have wanted. In the first year, he
created a small series of works in which the figuration was still visible. The
artist understood he needed to change everything in his working process and
detach himself from his sphere of safety. Over the next several years, Pende’s
style evolved from abstract images and spatial compositions to “recent images
in which the repetition of certain forms are transferred to other works which
result in a specific fictional construction.” The artist began studying
sculpture in 1996 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb before moving to
Germany to study painting at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, receiving his degree in
2002 under Professors Karin Rissa and Markus Lupertz and his master’s degree in
2005. Izvor Pende lives and works in Dubrovnik.
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