Zvonimir Matic

1993 Graduated in Fine Arts, specializing in Painting. Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona.

About me

About my work

I don't represent the things I paint, I live them. I never quite know what will emerge, trying to evoke shapes and landscapes that lead to deeper meanings than those of simple representation, while simultaneously pursuing the abstract beauty of colors.



Painting is, fundamentally, a mysterious and mental allusion, as the great painters have guessed. Those who paint from a project only manage to create a flat painting. I'm more interested in suggesting, in creating an active attention that can motivate internally.

My technique is different from painting with oil or acrylic. It consists of applying one layer after another of fresh stucco onto the canvas, which I then color using powdered pigments. I fix these layers with various materials such as spatulas, sponges, latex, etc.


I work on the different pigmented layers, adding new ones or removing certain areas, until I reach a final result that satisfies me aesthetically, in terms of composition and color.

Path

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2019 Open Day. Plataforma Gallery. Barcelona.
  • 2018 Open Night. Plataforma Gallery. Barcelona.
  • 2018 Arteria Gallery. Barcelona.
  • 2017 Open Night. Plataforma Gallery. Barcelona.
  • 2017 Open Day. Plataforma Gallery. Barcelona
  • 2016 Open Night. Plataforma Gallery. Barcelona.
  • 2016 Open Day. Plataforma Gallery. Barcelona
  • 2012 Shanghai International Fair with YLHY Gallery.
  • 2010 YLHY Gallery. Valencia
  • 2009 YLHY Gallery. Valencia
  • 2008 Carlos Gil de la Parra Gallery, Zaragoza
  • 2007 Carlos Gil de la Parra Gallery. Zaragoza. Spain (November 2007).
  • Galerie Ralph Schriever. Cologne. Germany (At the end of 2007).
  • 2006 www.pesch-wohnen.de, Cologne, Germany.
  •  Synchronicity Gallery. New York. United States.
  • 2005 Carlos Gil de la Parra Gallery. Zaragoza. Spain.
  • 2004 Sta. Maria Foundation. Albarracín Museum. Teruel, Spain.
  • 2003 Kalos Gallery. Barcelona. Spain.
  • Lavosier Gallery. Berlin. Germany.
  • Gallery 37º. Barcelona. Spain.
  • 2002 Galerie Jasmin Herzog. Leichlingen. Germany.
  • 2001 Galerie Jasmin Herzog. Leichlingen. Germany.
  • 2000 Helena de Saro Gallery. Artexpo Fair. Barcelona, Spain.
  • Galerie Jasmin Herzog. Leichlingen. Germany.
  • 1999 Galerie Lavoisier. European Patent Office. Berlin. Germany.
  • Galerie Djesany. Berlin. Germany.
  • Galerie Jasmin Herzog. Leichlingen. Germany.
  • 1998   Catalonia Institute of Technology. Barcelona. Spain.
  • Simone Berno Gallery. Paris. France.
  • 1997 La Santa Gallery. Barcelona. Private exhibition Manuel Montilla. Barcelona. Spain.
  • 1996 Torre-Balldovina Museum. Santa Coloma. Barcelona. Spain.
  • 1995 Culture Patronage. Hoyo de Manzanares. Madrid. Spain.
  • Cultural Centre. Torrelodones. Madrid. Spain.
  • 1993 Free Zone Consortium. Barcelona. Spain.
  • 1992 Regional House of Madrid. Barcelona. Spain.



Collective Exhibitions

  • 2024 Jordi Barnadas Gallery. Barcelona.
  • 2021 Jordi Barnadas Gallery. Barcelona.
  • 2020 Jordi Barnadas Gallery. Barcelona.
  • 2019 Jordi Barnadas Gallery. Barcelona.
  • 2007   II Small Size Painting Award – Autocugat. Cloister of Sant Cugat Monastery. Barcelona. Spain.
  • “Rupestria 07. Award-winning and selected work”. Caballerizas de Molinos del Río. Murcia, Spain.
  • “Rupestria 07. Awarded and selected work”. Exhibitions Hall of the Convent. Moratalla. Murcia. Spain.
  • 2006 Esther Montoriol Gallery. Barcelona, Spain.
  • Barnadas Gallery. Barcelona. Spain.
  • Carlos Gil de la Parra Gallery. Zaragoza, Spain.
  • Margarita Summer Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
  • 2005 Galerie Jasmin Herzog. Leichlingen. Germany.
  • Galeria J. Barnadas. Barcelona. Spain.
  • Margarita Summer Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
  • 2004 Entrecot de Bou 04. Barcelona. Spain.
  • Galeria J. Barnadas. Barcelona. Spain.
  • 2003   POPE Gallery. Barcelona. Spain.
  • 2002   Art Supermarket. Zaragoza (Spain) and Burdeos (France).
  • 2000 La Santa Gallery. Barcelona. Spain.
  • Art Supermarket. Madrid and Barcelona. Spain.
  • “Positions” Gallery Jasmin Herzog. Leichlingen. Germany.
  • Michelin Collection. Chapel of the Angels. Barcelona. Spain.
  • 1999   Art Supermarket. Madrid and Barcelona. Spain.
  • Helena de Saro Gallery. Artexpo Fair. Barcelona. Spain.
  • 1998 Helena de Saro Gallery. Artexpo Fair. Barcelona. Spain.
  • Serrahima Gallery. Barcelona. Spain.
  • La Santa Gallery. Barcelona. Spain.
  • 1997 La Santa Gallery. Barcelona. Spain.



Facilities

  • 1998 CHAIR, La Santa Gallery. Barcelona. Spain.
  • 1997 REASON FOR BEING, La Santa Gallery. Barcelona. Spain.
  • CRYPT, La Santa Gallery. Barcelona. Spain.
  • 1995 Collective CUBE, project –INTELLIGENCE-.
  • Opening of Course Contemporary Art, Sala Mas Fonollar, Santa Coloma. Barcelona. Spain.
  • Collective CUBE, project –ANTROPOMORFO-.
  • Sculptors meeting, Calaf. Barcelona. Spain.
  • Collective CUBE, project –SENTIMENTIA-.
  • Opening of Cultural Center La Capsa, El Prat de Llobregat. Barcelona. Spain.
  • 1994   Collective CUBE, project –LA WOEVRE-.
  • Archneige 94 Competition, Puy Sant Vincent. France.
  • Collective CUBE, project –BA- Cirano M.A.G. Granada. Spain.
  • Collective CUBE, project –LIMEN-. 
  • Sculptors meeting, Calaf. Barcelona. Spain.
  • Collective CUBE, project –ANTROPOTAURO-.
  • Biennial of Young Artists, Reus. Tarragona. Spain.
  • 1991 SILLAMIDE, Autonomous University of Barcelona. Spain.



Awards and Scholarships

  • 2007   Selected work. II Small Size Painting Award – Autocugat. Sant Cugat. Barcelona. Spain.
  • Honourable Mention. Rupestria 07 – National Plastic Arts Competition. Moratalla. Murcia. Spain.
  • 2002   Selected work. Honda Painting Award. La Garriga. Barcelona. Spain.
  • 2001   Cultural Exchange Scholarship Berlin-Tarragona.
  • Developed a pictorial project between three Catalan artists and three artists from Berlin exhibited at Berlin city council and the Tarragona council
  • 2000   Selected work. Honda Painting Award. La Garriga. Barcelona. Spain.
  • Finalist 6th American Prints Art Supermarket Award. Madrid. Spain.
  • 1995   Finalist sculptors meeting Calaf. Collective CUBE. Barcelona. Spain.
  • 1994   Special jury’s prize – Competition Archneige94, Puy Sant Vincent. Collective CUBE. France.
  • 1993   Selected work. ACAP Painting Award. Barcelona. Spain.




Press

  • 2001 El Punt – “Artists from Tarragona and Berlin work together, and show their art at the Provincial Council”.
  • 2001 El Punt – “Artists from Berlin and Tarragona, together”
  • 2001 Berliner Morgen Post – “Oysterling Tarragona-Berlin-Reinickendorf”
  • 2001 Rheinische Post – “Be inspired by ancient facades”
  • 2000    Alter Fries neu in Form
  • 2000 “A small stone as a pioneer”
  • 1999 Kölner Stadt Anzeiger – “When the bull meets the moon”
  • 1999 Rheinische Post – “Thoughts revolve around the original”
  • 1999 INFO GD1 – “Exhibition”
  • 1997 Lecturas Magazine – Abstract Painting “Sgraffito Art”
  • 1995 El País – “An exhibition featuring bull brains opens the Santa Coloma art cycle”
  • 1992 Maritime – “Art and the Sector”
  • Herald of Aragon – “Zvonimir Matich in Barcelona”
  • El Periódico de Cataluña – “Zvonimir Matich and the art of the vestige”


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