Ancient tree of Podravina naive art is loaded with golden fruits among them is strongly unsparing Dražen Kuharović who has in last 10 years after practice with music passionatly gave himself to sculptore art where he creates hundreds of diferent sculptors work.
In his talent and generosity many of his work he gave away to institunions and individuals but with his hard work he has always plenty of creations to makeup picture of Kuharović art and his personality and his relation towards art and global reality.This artist createsspontaneusly without large sketch and traininghe charges directly on material working on clav,wood in applied form.
Complete art conent pulls out of imagination whereon that Kuharović shapes form and all element of sculptors ideas holding on tradition of Podravina.
On his artist-sculptor travel Dražen Kuharović tryed four sculptor areas:
To would clay theat he burned in brickyard and he got that way terracota of impressiv character.
Skilfuly employ sculptor art in wood figure and figure coposition almost narrative dimension prevailing biblic theme between them central position has crucify Jesus Christ and forth ewift sculptoring motor saw what is his main preoccupacy in last two years.
Natural gift for volumen assign this artist for producing form simple apparently arhaic look. Oval chisel would basic fact of each figure without entering into laws of anatomic proporionality neiter into soft tact but he compensate all with expression that awakes general impression of sculpture.On plastic and simple way radiate psyhology of forms that animate spontanious dynamics and balance.
Between other sorte of wood Kuharović mostly shapes oak that everlasting Croatian mark.With impregnation and burning gets natural brown reddish colour,shine and sharp refraction light and shadow.This artist energatically enters in to most complex figure composition and comes to simple and bright solution of his perception.
As retired defender of homeland war he found by his family wife and two children and grandchild most apropriate way in further battle but this time on artistic plan his homeland and with that fight for general culture.
Pero Markić prof.of art and academic sculptor. |