%0 Journal Article %T Painter¡¯s Memento - Ivo £¿ebalj; Nenad Fabijani£¿, Zdenko Rus, Biserka Rauter Plan£¿i£¿ %A Krmpoti£¿ %A Ivana %J - %D 2019 %X Sa£¿etak The exhibition Painter¡¯s Memento organized this spring in Modern gallery in Zagreb by prof. Nenad Fabijani£¿, £¿ebalj¡¯s friend over many years and collaborator on many realized projects so far, reminds us once again of Ivo £¿ebalj¡¯s exceptional talent and his influence on Croatian art. Carefully selected motifs of great oil paintings were displayed in Vraniczany¡¯s palace overlooking Zrinjevac. £¿ebalj¡¯s diptych My memento of a barbaric act in Knin church, painted in 1997, was for the first time presented to the public in the central room. The monumental painting is a kind of a requiem, a moment of emptiness and abstract soliloquy. The set design, subtle and unobtrusive yet indispensable, combines a valuable artefact - a carbonized statue of Christ demolished in the 1993 arson that destroyed the monastery Church of St. Anthony in Knin - with £¿ebalj's impression of this barbaric act. The spatial installation is an axis and an accent, confirmation of a supra-temporal dialogue between two creators %U https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=323635