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MATKO MEŠTROVIĆ
12. November 1933
country
Ex Yugoslavia
period
1946-1968

Matko Mestrovic is an active, outstanding and, during diverse historical periods of late modernism, postmodernism and the epoch of globalism, an intrinsic critical and theoretical figure of the Croatian and European intellectual scene. He was a member of  the neodadaist and proto-conceptualist group Gorgona during early sixties. His theoretical work is initially associated with the New Tendencies movement at the turn of the fifties. Mestrovic emerged as a theorist and ideologue of the New Tendencies movement, thus evolving into a theorist of art after informel, a wide range from neodada and neo-constructivism, lumino-cinetics and computer art to design, architecture and environmental studies. Matko Mestrovic today, with historical distance, can be considered a genuine and remarkable founder of the theory and philosophy of neo-avant-guard art and culture in Croatia and Yugoslavia. As a long-time scientific researcher at the Institute of Economics he led interdisciplinary projects on socio-cultural processes of transition and globalization in Croatian and European societies. He wrote several books: From Single to General (1967), Outlines Without Patterns (1978), Theory of Design and Environmental Problems (1980), The World, Consciousness and Dependence (1983), Goods and Freedom (1995), Reality Time (2002). He also edited the almanacs Social Capital and Transition in Croatia (1998) and Globalization and Its Reflections in Croatia (2001).

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PUBLIKACIJE | PUBLICATIONS

1967. book Od pojedinačnog općem
1969. publication Industrijski dizajn i društveno-privredna kretanja u Jugoslaviji
1978. book Obrisi bez obrasca
1978. publication Društvenost komunikacija
1980. book Teorija dizajna i problemi okoline
1983. book Svijet, svijest i zavisnost
1995. book Roba i sloboda
1998. publication Sociokulturni kapital i tranzicija u Hrvatskoj
2001. publication Globalizacija i njene refleksije u Hrvatskoj
2002. book Vrijeme zbilje
2003. publication Globalization and Its Reflections on (in) Croatia
2007. book Raspršenje smisla
2008. book Dispersion of Meaning
2011.   book Prema novoj orijentaciji
2011.   poetry book Razaznanja
2012.  book Towards a New Orientation
2013.  book Živi Marx
2017.  book Na izmaku doktriniranog svijeta

GRUPNE IZLOŽBE | GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016. Modernità Non Allineata. Arte e Archivi dell'Est Europa dalla Collezione Marinko Sudac, FM Centre for Contemporary Art, Milan
2017. El nem kötelezett művészet – Marinko Sudac gyűjteménye, Ludwig Múzeum — Kortárs Művészeti Múzeum, Budapest
2017. Gorgona, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
2018. In Memoriam – Josip Vaništa, Šira Gallery, Zagreb
2018. Hello World. Revision einer Sammlung, Hamburger Bahnhof  – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
2019. GORGONA 1959–1968. Független művészeti törekvések Zágrábban. Retrospektív kiállítás a Marinko Sudac gyűjteményből, Kassák Múzeum, Budapest
2019. GORGONA. Prace z kolekcji Marinko Sudaca, Profile Foundation, Warsaw