Josip Vaništa

For this work Vaništa combines two cardboards, dividing the first one longitudinally with a line, which is a pattern that he had begun to use in 1961 and had become a symbol of his painting tecnique, devoted to simplicity, searching for essentiality and at the same time marked by a detached and often ironic attitude. Regarding Vaništa, Putar mentions that there's a voluntary asceticism in his work which resulted in a pursuit of perfection in a vacuum, while Rattemeyer emphasizes that his work transformed the pictorial gesture linked to the modernist abstraction, changing its purpose, its meaning and its effect. Paradoxically, what emerges from this work is the opposite to what the client had requested, which was an authentication of all the works through the signatures of the artists and a sense of collectiveness in the project. Unlike his earlier technique, which he often re-adopted since the 60s and involved a soft pencil and a ruler, at Brunnenburg Vaništa created his work using a collage technique.