Idea, message, concept
IDEA, MESSAGE, CONCEPT
Works by students of the Graphic Design Departments of the Pula School of Applied Arts and Design
Kino Valli, 20th July at 18:00
Graphic design is becoming more and more important in our daily lives, a significant aspect of the contemporary world. The Graphic Design Department of the School of Applied Arts and Design in Pula has the task and ambition to embody the tradition of the classical graphic design style which is being materialized through classical graphic design techniques and contemporary graphic design. Through the processes of analysis, synthesis, verifications and presentations we develop a specific work methodology based on a project culture. This method allows us to transfer knowledge and competencies from different fields of study, which there are at least as many as the number of disciplines involved in the communication process, be it as a consolidation of an image culture and its evocative and symbolic value or as a perception of the form within visual arts.
Developing technological innovations enables us to train our students in the multimedia visual-art language as well as in forming and realizing complex messages, seeking at the same time for a possible interaction with different professions involved in the process of the completion of the finished product (photographers, architects, illustrators, typographers, etc.) and, of course, the message users. At the end of the four-year training our student has experience and knowledge, spanning from the creation of a typographic symbol to text and printing layouts, from creating messages in the form of a poster to illustrations, from comic book to classical graphic design.
The exhibition is a small overview of our work and yet another proof that we have been successful in our attempts and that these young authors possess both the knowledge and an honest joy of creating.
Professor Denis Sardoz
Builders of the Worlds - an exhibition about production design
BUILDERS OF THE WORLDS - AN EXHIBITION ABOUT PRODUCTION DESIGN
Gallery C8, 21th July at 20:00
“A production designer collects the existing reality for the need of the non-existent” (Hrvoje Hribar, film director, president of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre)
Production design means creating the space of a story, spacing an action, the atmosphere, the spatial and temporal context. Production design is creating new, imaginary, excusive worlds – worlds that will be populated by characters of a story.
Production design is an adventure that presumes curiosity and creativity, collaboration and communication, and a no less important - the ability to move heavy objects. Scenography is a built world. It is specific, tangible and habitable.
Who are these "Builders of the Worlds"? Production designer, yes. Production designers are supreme dreamers. By their sides stand prop managers, decorators and drafters, house painters and art painters, carpenters and locksmiths, students and scholars, drivers and sleuths, cooks and tailors, bookworms and bon vivants, illusionists and charmers.
The Builders of the Worlds are not afraid of heights, winter, darkness, nor the bar counter. They wear comfortable shoes. Their vehicles are always directed towards the exit. They can change gears, talk on a cell phone, chew a sandwich and shoot locations - at the same time. They do not like to be at anyone’s disposal, red lights, nor work related meetings. They like full attics, set tables and open roads.
The exhibition "Builders of the Worlds" within the Pula PROfessional programme of Pula Film Festival, deals with the "worlds" of Croatian films in this year's competition. All of these "Worlds", big or small, contemporary or timeless, reconstructed or re-created, lie in their stories and are inhabited by their characters. The construction builders - production designers - will share with us, in word and deed (and perhaps with an oversight), one of the stations on the path of spacing the story.
Tanja Lacko, production designer
Mija Aleksić - To Be An Actor
MIJA ALEKSIĆ – TO BE AN ACTOR
Serbian Cultural Centre, July 16th, 21:00
Author: Boban Stefanović
Actor’s ten commandments by Mija Aleksić:
Always start everything from the beginning!
That what is true is funny!
Don’t push the role; conquer it gradually, but with passion!
Give yourself time to play the essence!
Play the show business as if it was the greatest comedy!
There is only one step between laughter and tears!
Lead the audience but don’t pay court to it!
Play for your partner because your partner plays for you!
Appreciate words but appreciate silence too!
Play the hundredth performance as if it was your first, but even better!
Milosav Mija Aleksić was born on September 26th, 1923, in Gornja Crnuća, within the municipality of Gornji Milanovac (Serbia). In 1933, he moved to Kragujevac with his family. In 1943, he started working for the Serbian National Theatre in Kragujevac and in the same year he played his first role in the play Girl’s Curse. In 1949, he moved to the National Theatre in Belgrade where his first role was the role of the guard in Hamlet. Two years later, in 1951, he joined the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade, where he would stay until 1965, when he went back to the National Theatre. He also played at other theatres (Atelje 212, Humorous Theatre Belgrade, etc.).
During his glittering career he made a series of important appearances in theatre, film, television and radio. He gained popularity with the Radio Belgrade show Happy Night and television series Car Repair Station and The Mirror of the Citizen Pokorny. He made his film debut in 1950 in Branko Ćelović’s short-length film Fly. He made appearances in more than 50 films.
He received a large number of awards and recognitions for his acting, including the Yugoslav Film Festival award in Pula in 1960 and 1962, a special diploma for the role in the film Comrade President Center-Forward in 1960, and a Golden Arena for the role in the film Dr in 1962. Mija Aleksić passed away in Belgrade on March 12th, 1995.
The exhibition marking the 90th anniversary of Mija Aleksić’s birth (1923 – 1995) was presented in September 2013 in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia. It was organized by the Cultural Centre Gornji Milanovac in cooperation with Mija Aleksić’s family, National Theatre in Belgrade, Radio Television of Serbia, Yugoslav Cinemateque, National Museum in Kragujevac and Museum of Theatrical Arts of Serbia.
Streetkids United II: Girls from Rio
STREETKIDS UNITED II: GIRLS FROM RIO
Makina Gallery, 17th July, 21:00
Photography Exhibition
The famous photographers Robin Utrecht and Marco Hofste have gone to Rio de Janeiro for the Street Child World Cup to take photographs of this tournament. An appealing photography exhibition, consisting of 8 photographs made by Robin and Marco, was created. These photographs were shown at different locations in Rio de Janeiro (e.g. during the World Cup in the hotel where the Dutch Football team stayed), Sao Paulo (e.g. Dutch Consulate), Amsterdam (e.g. Amsterdam ArenA, homebase of Football Club Ajax),
The Hague (e.g. Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and London. The exhibition shows, through the eyes of the street children, the positive impact of the Street Child World Cup on the children and the great potential in them.
The Photographers
Robin Utrecht is Dutch photographer. Since his start as a photographer in 1998 Robin won a large number of awards and from the start his photos make the frontpages regularly. He knows how to photograph his subjects in a creative, almost abstract style, regardless whether it concerns ordinary people or the Dutch royal family during state visits abroad. As a photojournalist, Robin is allround and covers subjects ranging from news items to sports and portraits to surveys in every part of the world. After finishing his studies Robin was employed by the local Dutch Newspaper Utrechts Nieuwsblad for three years. In 2001, he was contracted by the Dutch press agency ANP, where he was one of the main staff photographers till late 2011. He now is a freelance photographer at Robin Utrecht Photography. From the beginning of his career as a professional photographer, his pictures have been awarded many times. Up until now, Robin has won nineteen prizes in different categories of the annual Zilveren Camera competition for Dutch photojournalism. 3 of his photos were selected for the Zilveren Camera 2013 (categories: sport series, environment and domestic affairs). In 2002 Robin was chosen Dutch photojournalist of the year. The same year he also won the Prix de Brendrihem in Paris for the best political picture of the year and he was awarded first prize in the sports category of the Sony World Photography Awards in 2008 with a feature on the Sierra Leone amputee soccer team. Next to his work as a press-photographer, Robin displays his work frequently in exhibitions. One of his exhibitions was in Paleis Soestdijk, where pictures that Robin made of the Royal family ere shown.
Marco Hofste has accompanied Robin Utrecht during their trip to the Street Child World cup in Rio. The Dutch photographer won several awards including the Zilveren Camera.
Organisation
The photography exhibition is organised by Jamillah van der Hulst. Jamillah has organized two successful photography exhibitions before. She initiated a traveling photo exhibition for Sport 4 Development organization Right To Play in 2008. In that year the Beijing Olympic Summer Games started on 08-08-08. Jamillah organized a photography exhibition that was shown at 8 different locations for 8 days each. The exhibition ended at Schiphol at the gate where most flights to Beijing were leaving from. The photos were taken by Raymond Rutting at projects of Right To Play. The exhibition attracted a lot of media attention.
The second exhibition organized by Jamillah in 2010 was together with Robin Utrecht. Before, during and after the FIFA World Cup photographs of projects of Sport 4 Development organization Stars in their Eyes, taken by Robin, were shown at various locations in the Netherlands such as the Embassy of South-Africa, Schiphol Airport and S.S. De Rotterdam. This exhibition also received a lot of media attention.
