The works in the exhibition encompass a longer period of the author’s creativity, from the primary and analytical works of the seventies and eighties to the present day. However, the exhibition does not claim to be retrospective; rather, it is envisioned as timeless, where very different things, problems, and works from different periods function together.
Presented and unified in this exhibition, they acquire a new context and new meaning. The artist focuses on the complexity and diversity of the art, bearing witness to the past and present times in which they live.
The exhibition relativizes time and past artistic endeavors. It is conceived as a “scattered burden” delving into the intricate web of human life in personal, general, and social contexts, exposed to various issues and interwoven on the level of reflection and emotions, different moods and experiences, characteristic of the transience and constancy of changes in human nature.

Rašić’s mental designation for his works rests on a constant inner process of existential queries that from the unconscious strata of the being rise primarily to consciousness. With a richness of imagination and a constant, long-lasting cyclical observation, this process tells of the polysemous, complex inner viewpoint of the author, which is not easy to classify. The multiplied views are directed at once from a complex angle of vision to numbers of different directions and then, pulling after them numerous reminiscences, symbolically and reductively, during long-lasting states in which they are still polyvalent, are finally given objective form and expressed by the production of the exhibition and, released into the world, live their own life in space and time. This is an investigative, analytical and questing viewpoint that at once watches its own being and its belief in art, its mirroring, infectedness, occasional dubiety, mimicry and constant wonder and suffusion with it as one of the ways in which man and the world are symbolically interpreted, with a current inquiry into the age when it seems that the worlds of art are all around us, where is it all going to?

Ante Rašić
Born in Imotski, Croatia in 1953. Graduated in paint­ing from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1977, class of Prof. N. Reiser. Associate of the Mas­ters workshop of Prof. Lj. Ivančić and Prof. N. Rei­ser, 1977–78. Resided in Paris at the Academy of Fi­ne Arts as a stipendiary of the French government (Prof. Charpentier), 1978–79. Member of the Croatian Associ­ation of Artists and Croatian Freelance Artists’ Association since 1977. Alongside a group of artists, architects and designers is a founder of the first Per­manent Working Association of Freelance Artists – ArTresor in 1986, and one of the founders of Oris. Has received many awards in Croatia and internationally in the fields of art and design.
His works have been pub­lished in numerous publications and magazines and exhibited in museums and private collections.
Currently works as an Art Director in Studio Rašić, as well as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb from 1995.