The exhibition of paintings and prints Juraj Plančić in Island Galleries was opened at the Art Pavilion Juraj Šporer on Tuesday, December 22nd of 2009, at 7:30 p.m. in the organization of the Croatian Museum of Tourism.
More than 30 paintings and prints of significant artistic value were presented at the exhibition. They were selected from the holdings of the Branko Dešković Art Gallery from Brač, the Juraj Plančić Gallery from Stari Grad on Hvar and the Museum of Lošinj.
Vinko Srhoj, PhD, stated in the exhibition catalogue: „Plančić in the island galleries of Stari Grad, Bol and Mali Lošinj, in a way tells a story about the homeland and the large national, as well as world-wide, scope of an exceptional artistic opus such as that of Juraj Plančić. The retrospective offered at this exhibition is a road travelled by the prematurely deceased artist from Stari Grad, through Zagreb to Paris, a short and difficult path from the timid beginnings to a four year long Parisian (pre-mortem) exaltation which imprinted him indelibly into the memory of every review of domestic art. (…)The exhibition does not flirt with retrospectiveness, as that was not its ambition, but a potential insight: what works by Plančić can island museums and collections offer, what small island towns have by a painter of regional themes and motifs transcended through his maturing in Zagreb to his Parisian peaks.“
The exhibition was open until January 17th of 2010.
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