Orlando Mohorović is a Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

n artist.. He is one of the original members of a group of artists called Labinski atelieri.

Biography

Mohorović came to Düsseldorf in 1969 and met Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys was a German performance artist, sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art.His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social...

 there. The Admission Board of the department Free art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, formerly Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, is the Arts Academy of the city of Düsseldorf. It is well known for having produced many famous artists, such as Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Thomas Demand, and Andreas Gursky...

 admitted him as a student to Beuys’ courses of . Orlando Mohorović was studying painting and sculpture from 1970 to 1974. At that time New Realism

New realism

Nouveau réalisme refers to an artistic movement founded in 1960 by the art critic Pierre Restany and the painter Yves Klein during the first collective exposition in the Apollinaire gallery in Milan...

 paintings, conceptual art

Conceptual art

Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...

, performance

Performance

A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which a performer or group of performers behave in a particular way for another group of people, the audience. Choral music and ballet are examples. Usually the performers participate in rehearsals beforehand. Afterwards audience...

, sketches, small drawings and aquarelle as a pattern for installations

Installation art

Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...

 were developed.
In 1970 he had his first exhibition in the room 20 and in the hallway.
On February 5, 1974 he was appointed master student of the Beuys class. Mohorović belonged to the group of Beuys-students, like many other renowned German artists (Jörg Immendorff

Jörg Immendorff

Jörg Immendorff was one of the best known contemporary German painters; he was also a sculptor, stage designer and art professor.- Life and work :...

, Katharina Sieverding

Katharina Sieverding

Katharina Sieverding is a photographer known for her self-portraiture. Sieverding lives and works in Berlin and Düsseldorf. She is a professor at the University of the Arts, Berlin.- Early life and education :...

, Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac...

, Blinky Palermo

Blinky Palermo

Blinky Palermo, was a German abstract painter.-Early life and education:Palermo was born Peter Schwarze in Leipzig, Germany, in 1943, and adopted as an infant, with his twin brother, Michael, by foster parents named Heisterkamp, became Peter Heisterkamp, and moved to Münster in 1952...

, Sigmar Polke

Sigmar Polke

Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer.Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matter and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, returning to paint in the 1980s, when he produced abstract works created by chance through chemical reactions between paint...

) .

Exhibitions

List of some important independent and group exhibitions:

• 1970 "Düsseldorf art academy", room 20 and hallway
• 1972 Labin "Galerie Orlando", dedicated to an accidentally passing by person Nino Bateli
• 1973 Düsseldorf hall of art "Between 7 – Yes sir, that’s my baby" and London Gallery House – Goethe institute London "Some 260 miles from here..."
• 1974 Pazin "ethnographic Museum of Istria"
• 1977 Zagreb "Dubrava Gallery" (conceptual art)
• 1994 Split "Biannual festival of small format paintings and sculptures"
• 2001 Karlovac "Triannual festival Croatian aquarelle"
• 2001 Florence " Biennale Internazionale dell’ Arte Contemporanea
• 2003 Ravenna "XIV Biennale Internazionale Dantesca"
• 2006 Sarajevo "Roman Petrovic Gallery "

Collections

Buzet "Homeland Museum"; Labin "Folk museum"; Pula "City art collection"; Labin "Council House" Belgrade "Open University Brother Stamenkovic"; Pazin "City museum"; Ozalj " Art Collection Slave Rackaj"; Ravenna " Art Collection Centro Dantesca"

External links

• Orlando Mohorović personal website
• Orlando Mohorović's article on German Wikipedia
• Dijalog Mohorović - Floričić, Multimedia portal MojaRijeka.hr (Žmirić, Zoran, ed.), City of Rijeka, 2010-03-26
• Inter Imago 2 exhibition - Invitations, Art agency Petielement.hr, 2011-02-11
• Basis-Wien Documentary center, archive and most comprehensive database on contemporary art in and from Austria in national and international context.
• Annual Exhibition of paintings, Croatian Association of Artists Hdlu.hr (Višnja Slavica Gabout), , Rijeka, 2007, ISBN: 978-953-6701-48-3
• List of conceptual artists preissuche.biz (Rigo 1963), 2011-02-03