Objavljeno: 19.05.2017.
Mišel Jakšić, zamjenik koji obnaša dužnost gradonačelnika otvorio je u Galeriji Koprivnica izložbu fotografija pod nazivom „Priča o parku“.
– Ovo je jedno doista lijepo obilježavanje Međunarodnog dana muzeja. Izuzetno me veseli ova izložba, a isto tako vesele me sve one pozitivne emocije koje su stvorene i na koprivničkoj Božićnoj bajci i na Podravskim motivima i na svim onim događanjima koja smo imali u našem gradskom parku. Isto tako veseli me što dječje igralište u parku je već sad puno klinaca, a uvjeren sam kad dobije cijeli svoj obim da će doista svima srca biti puna i da ćete biti ponosni i na naš centar grada i na naš park koji je žila kucavica ovoga grada. – rekao je Mišel Jakšić, zamjenik koji obnaša dužnost gradonačelnika.
O izložbi je govorila Draženka Jalšić Ernečić, viša kustosica u Muzeju grada Koprivnice.
Prostor parka građanima Koprivnice oduvijek je bio važan, a nedavnim povijesnim i konzervatorskim istraživanjima utvrđeno je kako se fotografijom, koja se razvijala nekako istovremeno kada i prostor parka, mogu ispričati dvije samo naoko različite priče – priča o koprivničkom parku i priča o koprivničkoj fotografiji i fotografima koji su motive parka bilježili prateći smjene godišnjih doba, stilove i razdoblja, promjene fotografskih tehnika i načina gledanja, bilježeći duh vremena i vlastita emotivna stanja. Nema koprivničkog fotografa niti čovjeka s fotoaparatom u ruci, koji barem jednom motiv park nije zabilježio na filmu, digitalnoj kartici ili pametnom telefonu.
Izložbom se predstavljaju radovi osam profesionalnih koprivničkih fotografa – Ivica Barać, Ivan Brkić, Milan Fuker, Mario Kos, Vladimir Kostjuk, Marko Posavec, Marijan Sušenj i Boris Vargović.
Izložba ostaje otvorena do 11. lipnja.
CROATIA, KOPRIVNICA. Photography as a medium has undeniable visual power of documentation. A photographic camera records everything. It records our intentions but also captures details we never intended a detail that at some point seems irrelevant and become important when we change our point of view. It is all about observation and visual awareness of the perceived object. In the Koprivnica public park case, photography became a way of remembering and visual observing local history. Old vintage photos captured the beginning and shadows of the first planted trees. They document times past for better or worse; blossoming, and blooming and the process of regeneration, stagnation and neglect, occasional devastation, vandal wounding, or dying trees. Likewise, the photos recorded some beautiful moments, encounters, cherry and magnolia tree in bloom or secret love stories on a small path called the Alley of Sighs.
© Ivan Brkić. Leafs in the fall: Smells like oranges. Koprivnica, 28.10.2010. (courtesy of the artist).
In times when wars and sheer survival were more important to people, the park grew, thrived and lived a life of its own. In difficult times, the public park was a peaceful place of relief, fresh air and a green escape in the heart of the old town. A claim that parks are the lungs of the cities is the banalest thing we can put on paper, but that is pure fact. As well as the fact that our people emotionally connect with the park as an oasis of peace in the town they live in. Koprivnica Public Park is the very heart of downtown and our green place of tranquility.
© Milan Fuker. Fall int he park. Koprivnica, 4.11.2012. (courtesy of the artist).
Koprivnica Public Park is part of the downtown and old town center with features of urbanism and architecture of the 19th century. It is a historical site of the old Renaissance fortress with its military facilities, style, and features of the period. Developments on the outer edges of the Renaissance fortress caused the town to develop as conditions of breadth and proximity of the old town and the wetlands around it dictated. A space was left free between the fortress and the newly developing town, The basic problem at that time of expansion was not the industrial revolution, but the need for local people to remove space boundaries on the symbolic level. With a new approach to urbanism, new areas of freedom were established in the park.
© Mario Kos. November. Koprivnica, 9.11.2015. (courtesy of the artist).
The park area has always been important. Recent historical and conservation research has shown that collected photographic material from the 1860s till today tell us two parallel stories, because photography and the park’s space developed at the same time. The first one is a visual story on the park, and the second story is about local photography and photographers. The park as a subject of interest has been noted following the shift of seasons, styles and periods, changes in photographic techniques and points of view, always capturing the spirit of the time and emotional state of the photographer.
© Vladimir Kostjuk. Park’s life – Old fence. Koprivnica, 1980s (courtesy of the artist).
There is no photographer or anyone with a camera, who did not record the park as an object on film, digital card or smartphone at least once in their lifetime. All the layers of meanings, appearances, emotions, and reasons for catching transitive motives of a public park are just a small part of a visual story. This story we could tell in hundreds of different ways. In this case, eight local professional photographers were selected. From vernacular and studio photography, documentary, photojournalism, corporate, landscape destination or fine art photography, the selected images shown in the ‘’Park’s Photo Story’’ have been emphasized through a professional approach that has not remained immune to emotional involvement.
© Marko Posavec. Park – Taxodium Distichum. Koprivnica, 14.9.2014. (courtesy of the artist).
Eight professional photographers, Ivica Barać (photojournalism), Ivan Brkić (photojournalism and corporative), Milan Fuker (studio, wedding and vernacular photography), Mario Kos (photojournalism), Vladimir Kostjuk (photojournalism, corporative and documentary), Marko Posavec (photojournalism, new landscape photography), Marijan Sušenj (photojournalism, agency photographer), and Boris Vargović (landscape destination and fine art photography) exhibited their images as theme and motif.
© Marijan Sušenj. Park’s life – Lunch on a bench. Koprivnica, 6.12.2012.(courtesy of the artist).
The curatorial choice of exhibits and these other Stories of the park are just a small segment of issues in the ongoing public debate in context of the renovation and metamorphoses processes underway. Vintage photos, old postcards, and images from the 1860s till today tell us a photo story about the park that has been seen many times before. It is carved deeply into our mental picture of our urban landscape. Beside old vintage photos in the historical and conservation study, the intention of the contemporary exhibition was to observe how the eye of the professional observers and captures a particular moment of inevitable change. The photo story about the park could even now be told in a different way. It is a charm of curatorial choice and the very essence of contemporary photography as a medium.
© Boris Vargović. A winter path. Koprivnica, 2008. (courtesy of the artist).
© Ivica Barać. Intervention, 25.4.2017 (courtesy of the artist)
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