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The document discusses Lovro Artuković's recent exhibition at the Klovićevi Dvori Gallery in Zagreb featuring his works from to present.
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Lovro Artuković is a contemporary Croatian painter and graphic artist who primarily paints large scale figurative canvases.
Career
He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Foreign nine years, until 2003, he worked as an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb. He then moved to Berlin where he still works as a freelance artist.
His painting style is based on the theme of intimism and explores the figurative using the iconography of urban civilisation.
After 2000, Artuković created a series of "Votive Paintings", which used real characters reconfigured into allegorical scenes.
The characters in these Votive Paintings would wear written messages on their clothes for example, in the painting 64, (2006), Artuković paints himself wearing a T-Shirt upon which is written "God How I Love Botticelli".
One of the artist"s best known, and most controversial works is
