The Vojin Bakić retrospective exhibition "Lightbearing Forms" marked the hundredth anniversary since the birth of this great artist. The exhibition was first shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb and praised as the cultural event of the year in Croatia in 2013.

One hundred and fifty works were presented at the Banja Luka exhibition, of which one hundred sculptures from all of Vojin Bakić’s series, drawings, sketches, scale models of monuments, photographic enlargements, audio materials and films. Also displayed were works by contemporary artists interpreting and dealing with his monuments from different angles (Marko Lulić, David Maljković, Igor Grubić).

Vojin Bakić (1915–1992) was one of Croatia’s greatest 20^th-century modernist sculptors. He was unrightfully neglected by critics and art professionals in the final decades of his career, and the retrospective exhibition staged by MSU Zagreb was the first time his complete oeuvre was valuated and the creative process behind his abstract expression understood, as inseparable from the European modernist tradition.

An artist whose power of vision was exceptional and whose creations were outstanding, Bakić took a radical turn from the way monumental memorial sculpture was previously done in the former Yugoslavia. The artistic value of his work is timeless, and it is precisely because of its abstract quality that it emits the boundless energy of signs or symbols.

Vojin Bakić was an artist of indefatigable energy, who created a great number of artworks of exceptional artistic quality during a career that spanned almost fifty years. His works were recognised as highly innovative and progressive, and they can be seen and read about in major reviews of contemporary world and European abstract sculpture.

Initially turned to figuration and traditional sculpture, Bakić’s style developed in pursuit of pure form; first, it was flourishing forms, followed by light forms (which poet Jure Kaštelan labelled "lightbearing" forms), abstraction with no superfluous details. According to the artist himself, those lightbearing forms are expressions of the joy of living, flash, light. The oeuvre of this unique artist allows us to see his life story and the social and political circumstances that surrounded his work.

Exhibition author: Nataša Ivančević, museum advisor, Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb

Exhibition setup: Ana Martina Bakić and Vjera Bakić, architects
MSURS exhibition coordinator: Lana Pilipović, senior curator

The exhibition was staged in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.

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