Solo exhibition at Hrvatski fotografski centar in Zagreb: Janez Bogataj: Bagatelles
Forthcoming exhibition
Overview
We kindly invite you to the opening of the solo photography exhibition by Janez Bogataj titled Bagatelles, which will take place on Saturday, 11th April, at 12 pm at Croatian Photography Centre in Zagreb.
The exhibition is organised in collaboration with the Croatian Photography Centre and its founder and director Luka Mjeda.
The exhibition was curated by Barbara Čeferin, director of Galerija Fotografija.
On view until 25th April 2026.
The series Bagatelles, the name of which denotes a short, light piece of music for the piano or a chamber ensemble, comprehensively builds on Bogataj’s opus and represents a logical continuation of his landscape series Sonata for Sun and Fog, with both series taking the inspiration behind their names from the music world. The compositions in the photographs from Bagatelles are utterly subordinate to the colours and patterns from which they are made of. In front of the viewer and through the frequent absence of prominent depth, a single two-dimensional surface unfolds, with the main role taken over by the pointillistic interlacement of natural pigments and shapes of flora. The rare appearances of the horizon cause our gaze to first take in the flowering of the forest in the foreground before undisturbedly gliding into the boundlessness of the sky we can sense in the background. More commonly, the detailed growth of vibrantly coloured bushes and trees fills every corner of the photograph, in which the artist contrasts patches of vivid warm colours, especially hues of yellow, orange and red, with complementary nuances of green. With regards to composition, Bogataj’s photographs are perfect – they are balanced to the point where each photograph is well proportioned on its own, while the compositions of nature complement each other and go together even when viewed as small selections or when we take in the entire series as a harmonious whole.
From the accompanying text by Vida Jocif.
