SPACE, TIME, CONTEXT

My work deals with the problem of placing definite, established, circle color form on a surface or in a space by using canvas and paint within the architecture as a frame. The surroundings, material and emotional (personal and social) context determine its color and shape. I mount a circle canvases (ø=450−1000 cm) directly onto the wall, without a frame. The canvas is folded wherever it meets an obstacle − a door, a window, another wall, floor, an electrical socket…
The folded parts are painted black. As the work is mounted it is a part of the process that exists only by virtue of time and various exhibition premises, but it
is also materialized in each moment and in each of its shapes (shapes change with each display and for each concrete case it is the only shape). The form always has the same potential energy that in some exhibition circumstances emanates and in other circumstances turns inwards. It is always a circle (the whole / the one) due to physical properties of energy.

1. Circles are not large for the reason to
   dominate (the space and the façade), but
   to appear too large inside the architecture,
   and being so to feel and reflect borders
   of concrete space in which they spread
   during the time they are visible (during
   the exhibition).
2. With their spreading (in the moment
   they are mounted), they also allow a peep
   into their past, reveal previous situations,
   space borders − context.
3. I stop the movement of the color
   inside, in the gallery or on the town
   space architecture. I mount the circles
   that change the urban structure. The
   tectonics of houses is deconstructed or
   dematerialized by color or accented, and
   thereby the urban structures of the town,
   temporarily or permanently, becomes
   deconstructed.
4. The circles appear in a certain structure
   of space, they live and show their already
   recorded time and space of another town,
   gallery and then temporarily disappear,
   fade away, and so on in virtual infinity. (D. R.)

Dubravka Rakoci was born in Zagreb in 1955. In 1979 she graduated from the department of painting of the Zagreb Academy of fine arts in Raoul Goldoni’s painting class. She has exhibited her work since 1979. From 1980 she’s been working as a graphic designer as well. From 1983 to 1984 she ran several painting workshops in student campuses. During the 1991/92 schoolyear at École d’art de Aix-en-Provence she tutored third- and fourth-year students in professor Valensi painting class. From 1993 to 1998 she conducted art classes at the Zagreb high school for textiles, leather and design. From 1998 to 2007 she was an art director at Školska knjiga d.d. in Zagreb. As a senior lexicographer she was the head of the Visual Arts editorial office at the Miroslav Krleža Lexicographic Institute in Zagreb since 2007. Now retired.