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Artwork Description

Ivan Prerad (Croatian, b. 1988) is a young painter whose structural, enigmatic works on linen and canvas transform thin lines of primary color into waves of RGB scale transformations that recall perceptual illusionism and the history of color-theory-based composition. Prerad connects with local (Croatian) traditions of concrete, kinetic and op art, particularly the 1960s movement of New Tendencies, which emerged in Zagreb around Matko Mestrovic and Ivan Picelj, but included international artists such as Alberto Biasi, Enrico Castellani, Otto Piene, Guenther Uecker, and others. Active from 1961 to 1972, New Tendencies bridged the optical experiments of early 1960s abstraction with the first computer-generated compositions of the early 1970s, and was situated, in the words, of art historian Armin Medosch, “at the threshold of the information revolution.” Prerad reimagines these histories by using a mathematically precise, technically rigorous painting vocabulary to allude to the digital color formats of RGB, used in monitors and televisions.