Radical Enformel in the Oeuvre of Ivo Gattin and Eugen Feller

Abstract

The paper focuses on Ivo Gattin and Eugen Feller as prominent figures in the so-called “radical Enformel”, an artistic trend in Croatian painting during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Besides them, the representatives of radical Enformel include Vlado Kristl, Marijan Javšovar, and Đuro Seder, who likewise participated in the exhibition Informel 1956-1962 at Nova Gallery in 1977. The theoretical platform for this trend in painting was found in hypotheses presented in the influential text “Materia, tecnica e storia nell’informale” (1959) by the Italian artcritic Giulio Carlo Argan, which were adapted to the specific Croatian circumstances and examples.

Keywords

• Enformel
• Hladni rat
• "radikalni enformel"
• Ivo Gattin
• "Novi material”
• Eugen Feller
• "Malampije"