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Saturday, January 17, 2026

Small Orange Tag * Translational Tactics for a Weightless Aesthetic

Small Orange Tag (2015–2020) operates as a portable protocol for Light Social Sculpture, activating spontaneous alliances and ephemeral gestures across diverse geographies without leaving material remains; beginning with a fluorescent tag acquired at the Prague Quadrennial, the project travels lightly through Serbia, Croatia, Colombia, and Spain, where the act of “tagging” transforms individuals into site-specific artworks, inscribed in time rather than in objecthood, forming a cartography of human presence guided by the ethos of “No Leftovers”, a principle that insists on zero waste—not only materially but conceptually—rejecting permanence in favor of relational intensity; in Cádiz, the Lemon Wall interventions blur ritual with environment, while in Bogotá’s botanical gardens the tag migrates into living ecosystems, generating micro-events where the aesthetic resides in the gesture, not the artifact; each iteration builds a translatorial economy, where the orange tag becomes a mutable sign crossing disciplines, languages, and codes—seen in encounters with Slavica Marin in Croatia or Clara Castro in Colombia, where the object acts less as a marker than as a conduit; Recreo (2020), the final chapter, proposes an expanded pause, a soft deceleration, where the tag becomes a memory device—a residue of collective play and distributed authorship, light enough to carry, sharp enough to persist without weight; Orange Tag proposes sculpture not as volume but as velocity, relation, and trace, a choreography of mutual recognition encoded in the simplest possible form.

House and Dome: Minimal Architecture as Conversational Sculpture ZUCCATO GALLERY_ POREC CROATIA | A CONVERSATION WITH DANINO BOZIC______CURATED BY JERICA ZIHERL

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WITH DANINO BOZIC

CONVERSATION INSTALLATION

http://regionalexpress.hr/site/more/zatvaranje-izlozhbe-anto-lloveras-anino-bozhi/

ISTRIA NEWS

http://www.glasistre.hr/vijesti/kultura/izlozba-koja-je-eksperiment-i-za-umjetnike-467602

KICK OFF

AFTER 2 YEARS

I COME BACK TO CROATIA

TO PLAY A NEW GAME IN A PALACE

AND

EXPAND THE

UNSTABLE INSTALLATION SERIES

ADDING COMPLEXITY TO THE CLOUD

WITH

LIGHT SOCIAL SCULPTURES

http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2014/08/blue-bags-2014-madrid-berlin-cadiz.html

TAGS AND PAPER

http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2014/03/fuegos-fireworks-tag-and-memory.html

CUTS AND INSTALLATIONS

http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2013/12/carne-meat-nube-de-nubes.html

TWINS AND UNSTABLE SETS

http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2014/04/twins-mexico-df-city-is-animal.html

FILMS AND MEMORY

http://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/p/copos-flakes-urba.html

CONVERSATIONS

http://lapiezalapieza.blogspot.com.es/p/frozen-heat-art-satellites-norway.html

ARTSHOW
WITH DANINO BOZIC
CURATED BY JERICA ZIHERL
http://www.poup.hr/tekstovi/anto-lloveras-unstable-installations-đanino-božić-stable-installatons.aspx

Belonging to the Minimal Architecture Series, exemplifies an aesthetic of radical simplicity, where the structure is reduced to the most elemental gestures: lines of bamboo and threads barely outlining the memory of a shelter. What emerges is not a model of construction but a diagram of inhabitation, a fragile articulation between geometry and void. Its architectural vocabulary resists solidity; instead, it thrives on instability, exposing the precariousness of all spatial definitions. Presented within the context of the Unstable Installation Series at Zuccato Gallery in Poreč, Croatia, and in dialogue with Danino Bozic under the curatorial direction of Jerica Ziherl, the work functions as both installation and conversation. Here, architecture becomes performance, a medium for negotiation and encounter rather than permanence. The so-called “house” and “dome” are stripped of domestic promise, reduced to signs that hover between drawing and construction. In this way, they propose an architecture of thought rather than of habitation. What is particularly striking is how the work oscillates between the individual line and the collective cloud. The fragility of bamboo evokes nature, yet its alignment into minimal frames suggests the persistence of human order. The dome, historically a symbol of universality, is re-imagined here as an incomplete curve, an unfinished horizon of possibility. By refusing closure, the work resists the monumental and aligns itself with the ethos of unstable sculptures: structures that are not ends in themselves but occasions for dialogue, memory and shared experimentation. In this sense, House and Dome stages a tension between absence and presence, architecture and its erasure. It is not a shelter but a question, not an edifice but a notation, inviting viewers to imagine what could dwell in the voids between its minimal traces.

Thursday, January 1, 2026

SWIM SERIESCOLLATERAL WORKS____________CROATIA 2017

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https://youtu.be/nTPvQRKESYw
02
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5B6RQL51c4
03
https://youtu.be/pP-ZU4D7-Us
04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J44r4jt2XAQ
05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpI9lTmGnUg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCbokTIGCuE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkWfmtZiaeE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iswDlfGlSQs
09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J4VakbWVBs
10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-uMw7hDGRo

UPON ARRIVAL I WALK THE AREA

RECORD THE STREETS AND VISIT THE MARKET

ITS HOT BEACHES ARE PACKED

ITS HIGH SEASON

EVERY SWIM TURNS INTO A COLLECTED STONE

A TROPHY TO BRING TO THE GALLERY

FOR THE NATURAL SERIES
https://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2017/08/collateral-seriestrnslatoril.html

THIS CONCEPTUAL WORK WAS ALREADY PERFORMED

DURING THE CONVERSATION INSTALLATION

WITH DANINO BOZIC AT ZUCATTO PALACE IN 2014

http://antolloveras.blogspot.hr/2014/08/new-show-zuccato-gallery-porec-croatia.html

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https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/conversational-shelter-minimal-sculpture.html

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

THE CITY IS AN ANIMAL_____________________RIGO GALLERY

NOW.HERE. ADRIATIC SEA. CROATIA. AFTER A YEAR OF WORK I SHALL DISPLAY THE LATEST TAXIDERMY. I HAVE WALKED THE CITY A LOT. AS USUAL. CITY AS CANVAS, AS FRAME AND SUPERMARKET. ALWAYS WITH MY KNIVE. I BRING 250 CUTS. RIGO IS A GALLERY I RESPECT A LOT. THE CURATORS HAVE RUNNED THE GALLERY NOW FOR TWENTY YEARS. THEY HAVE INVITED OVER A HUNDRED INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS FROM ALL BRANCHES ART. NOAH CHOMSKY GAVE A LECTURE AND THE CUTS OF LUCIO LUCIO FONTANA HAVE BEEN ON THE WALLS. HE WAS ONE OF MY CHILDHOOD HEROES, HE ALSO HAD A KNIVE. THE MAIN DISH I SHALL SERVE WILL BE A FRESH DISPLAY OF MEAT. MEAT AS ART. MEAT IS THE TAG I USE FOR EACH CUT I TAKE FROM CITY ANIMALS. STREET FURNITUE. THE TAXIDERMY WILL SHOW ON THE MAIN WALL. FULL SIZE. THE COLLATERAL WORKS WILL BE A CLOUD I CARRY WITH ME, RELATED SETS PART OF THE NARRATIVE, AND SOME MONOCHROME OBJECTS IN USE, THE SITUATIONAL FIXERS. NO LEFTOVERS.

GALLERY RIGO::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
TAXIDERMY III_________250 CUTS
215 - 462
https://antolloveras.blogspot.com.es/2017/08/taxidermyiiirigo-gallerycroatia-2017.html
SITUATIONAL FIXERS - 10X
https://antolloveras.blogspot.hr/2017/08/collateral-seriestrnslatoril.html
VIDEOART SERIES - TRIPTIC - MUSIC BY EL INTRUSO
A MEAT 316 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmATh0d6PHo
B COPOS 2008-2017 MADRID CITY SURFACE HYPERPLASTICS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WfvxJtJzzs
C NO LEFTOVERS __________MEXICO, FRANCE, SERBIA_______YELLOW FIXER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZY5gmj5GSQ

PREVIOUS SHOWS CROATIA

2014 CONVERSATION INSTALLATION WITH D-BOZIC

2014 LEMON KISS PULA - SOCIOPLASTICS

2012 RESTORAN SPLENDID PARENZO ISLE OF RABBITS

Friday, October 25, 2024

SAMSA :::::::: Sculptural Attractors Motivate Social Awareness ::::::::::::::: EUROPEAN ART NETWORK

PROJECT IDEA for CREATIVE EUROPE II call

'Support to European cooperation projects'

Cooperation projects (2016)

Strand category	Cooperation Projects – Category 1 Co-financed amount up to 200 000 EUR
Deadline	1 / 10 / 2025 ( to be confirmed)

Main activity Lead partner	SAMSA – Sculptural Attractors Motivate Social Awareness A HUB for open-air sculpture museums and parks in Europe. Open University Poreč, Poreč, Croatia
Partners	1. Terra, Center for Fine and Applied Arts , Kikinda, Serbia · 2. LAPIEZA, Madrid, Spain 3. National Museum of Montenegro in Cetinje, Monte Negro 4. KIBLA, Maribor, Slovenia

Short description

Open-air sculpture in the public realm embodying symbolic, historic, and aesthetic value even though the preservation requires collaboration between art historians, curators, conservation technicians, the wide public, and the sculptor or the sculptor's estate.

The project SAMSA orient itself on expand the territorial, geographical boundaries between classical and new media sculpture conceptsattracting new publics.

The aim of SAMSA is to establish a creative HUB with the artists, theoreticians, documentarists, curators, designers, producers, different publics related to contemporary sculpture discourse. Motilities between partners and artists involved in the project embrace the wide rural destinations, where most of the residential centers for artist are as well as the urban cities scales. The open air sculpture museums and parks are bringing art in the public spaces since theirs begging. Partners' institutions will enhance supportive environment in relation to information-communication technologies, digital culture and art creation, from sculptural production and presentation to research and education.

Therefore main focus of SAMSA is to develop new cultural and linguistic sculpture practices and to share them with a large public in a common European HUB, which promotes mobility of artist. Beside classical forms of sculpture (stone, terracotta) the project is proposing new forms as audio-visual sculpturing, on-line sculpturing, sustained art sculpturing and other forms. The SAMSA web-platform is an innovative resource that opens up access to all these and other resources: open-lab, events, digitalization of archival material, publications, workshops, symposia and seminars, public sculpture projects. A field of interconnections for individuals, initiatives and organizations. The calendar of activities is a result of interdisciplinary art creation and production focused on contemporary sculptures and its socialization.

SAMSA’s final goal is to develop a new cultural model on the field of sculpture for wider research and dissemination all over Europe.

Field(s)

Sculpture, digitalization, regional and transnational operation, on line technologies, music, design, urban art and land art sculptures, museums and galleries, public spaces and audience development.

Organizer and partners

Profile

Institutions and Associations active in the fields of sculpture, projects and/or professional education for the sculpture, method, theory and interdisciplinary cultural and creative sector. Experience in implementation of cultural projects, experience in international cooperation.

Partner activities

Open University Poreč, Poreč, Croatia: →organization of Montraker, international school of sculpting; Lloveras and Jerica Ziherl studies and research , group show from Kikinda syposium (out and in-side), seminar meeting of experts (hosting researchers on humanities and high culture)←one mentor (sculptor) per year goes to Kikinda symposium, all mentors (sculptors) goes to Monte Negro.

Terra, Center for Fine and Applied Arts , Kikinda, Serbia: →organization of Terra symposium (call for one sculptor from Montraker, one from Monte Negro), residency and conversation among artists for Lloveras „Conversation as sculpture“, Jerica Ziherl studies and research ← sculptures from syposium exhibit at Poreč and Monte Negro (out and in), people from organization goes to Montraker,

Lapieza Art, Madrid, Spain: →United Nations of Art,Lapieza World Series; build 4 shows with 8 artists from ex-YU and 20 other artists from 8 countires- reach 1000 pieces; all ex-YU joins Lapieza from differnte angles, Jerica Ziherl studies and research ← Lapieza artist in Montraker, Kikinda and Montenegro

National Museum of Montenegro in Cetinje, Monte Negro: → activities around Gallery Dado Duric, one exhibition from Montarker - container and digitalization: residency for Lloveras and make a show with art form Lapieza artist and group show from Kikinda syposium, Jerica Ziherlstudies and research ← organizeone show in Poreč, one sculptor for Kikinda syposium, people form museum goes to Poreč and Kikinda

Proposal of common activities: group and individualexhibition, artist in residence, conference, digitalization, public relations activities, documentation, meetings, on-line meetings, blogging, an book and a short film of 28 minutes, short documentary, web with contents and links to other places.

Why -new art strategies as post-political emotional maps

How -through calender of events - you come i go - we talk we talk - some sculpures in many formats

Who - ex-yugoslav memebers are the begginng energy, the ones that seed the idea. A post traumatic scenario is a place where new concepts need to be developed. FORMA VIVA is a seed, that will expand globally through the net. A nes sort of plant that can only be born is such scenarios, so it is a sort of experimental idea that will work as a template

When - 2 years. We will mostly talk about it, make interviews, and the map, video and book. The idea of having several overlapping terratories. The new map is quite important, the map of the terratory.

We already have -sculptures, artists at work, different countries. Museum and galleries - Montenegro links with other entities - Kikinda meeting and interviews there. Digitalization of works. Poreč seminar meeting of experts (hosting researchers on humanities and high culture)

Keywords:

Studies – research.

Artshows - curatorial poems.

Interviews - photos and comments.

Digitalization - info and data.

Museum: legitimation of art/house of art - the foundation.

University:education, house of culture and idea - the knowledge.

Lapieza Onlineart enterprise: unstable international exhibition series - the web platform.

Kikinda Concrete residence: production/meeting - the body.

It is great to know that we are all willing to win this competition for funds.

The fresh idea of expanding our ongoing projects is a good motivation. I just started to map the idea, so all content and names you want to add will be great to make readable schemes for the presentation, alltogether with the text and few images. The concept of having artists, historians, mentors and critics moving from one project to the other is great to start. To show the stream is KEY.

THE SAMSA SCULPTURE WILL BE DIRECTLY PORPORTIONAL TO THE COMPLEXITY WE CAN GENERATE; WITH THE AMOUNT OF WORK, THE SIZE OF THE NETWORK, AND THE INTERNATIONAL IMPACT OF ALL ACTIVITIES UNDER A COMMON NAME. SAMSA IS A NATURAL EMERGENCY. SAMSA, AS IN FREE GLOBAL MARKET, WHERE SMALL LOCAL COMPANIES GENERATE ALLIANCES TO REACH BEYOND THEIR BORDERS, WILL WORK AS A KIND OF HYBRID CORPORATION (ECONOMY AND NATURE), WHERE DIVERSE INTERESTS ARE PUT TOGETHER TO GROW A STRONGER ENTITY (CYBORG THEORY, DONNA HARAWAY).

THE E FORM IS VERY PRECISE IN THE AMOUNT TO WRITE. SO FOR ME IS BETTER TO KNOW HOW MANY SUBJECTS I HAVE TO WRITE IN DIRECTLY, NOT TO WRITE AND THEN SPECULATE WHERE TO PLACE IT. CHEERS.

INTRO . THE BODY

To present ourselves as a BODY that will produce something larger, better AND stronger than what we already do as organs, we have to define our lines of pre-production very clearly. In Porec, the main partner, the idea is to produce research and text, theory, connecting historians with critics curators and artists. In Kikinda, the concept is to produce works, the WORKSHOS, the atelier where to apply some formulas we have dicussed previously in Porec. Then, LAPIEZA, is the hub that connects internationally all the artists and texts and makes exhibitions, through relational curatorial. finally, maribor is the publicist, the media agent that will build the communication strategy. We all need each other to function. There is no SAMSA without one of the partners. That is the KEY. All cultural commodities (frankfurt school) are based on the forms of production so what we do here is generate a form that will research, exhibit, promote and reach new audiences through the internet. The form, is initially related to sculpture in a very open perspective. sculpture is a traditional form of art, and what we do in SAMSA, is present sculpture not as a physical entity bus as a concept (conceptual art is bases on ideas). In order to make SAMSA clearly seen as an entity, we have to develop a very synthetic and distinctive interface (the logos, the image, the type of text, the brans) that will be seen as a model of modernity in the way we communicate, in the way we present in the way it is seen.

ON US

LAPIEZA has already built several brands related to networks, so that will be one of our tasks. POREC has the infrastructure and the traditions of having seminars and conferences, leaded by historian ziherl, so it is the perfect place where to meet and discuss about sculpture in a broad sense. Kikinda has long tradition of WORKSHOP, so we have to make clear that artists from all over the world will meet there and produce in a natural environsment. LAPIEZA has a network of 165 artists globally, and will use all the connector to promote SAMSSA (MAPS). KIBLA has built communication systems before and will lead on this. The cross-polinization is also a key word, since we will transfer our knowledge one to another. To make the schedule and the transfer of agents from one place to the other is basic (brain images can show this, brain software i mean, i sent some test last week).

SCHEME OF POTENTIALS

1 SEMINAR - EDUCATION - HIGH CULTURE - WHO ARE WE INVITING - list and concept of evolution in sculpture - jerica and into intro text with selected bibliography 2 WORKSHOP- MEETING, PRODUCING ART - THE PLACE . CONVERSATIONS - Describe the methodology of work in residence and select 10 artworks that are very differnet, eeven though is about stone, i would open the idea to all media in the SAMSA concept to widen our chances. Kikinda 3 EXHIBITIONS - ARTIST NETWORK - THE EXHIBITION IS PROCESS - VIDEOS, TEXTS IMAGES, ALL ONLINE, NOT PPHYSICAL - LAPIEZA UNITED NATIONS 4 COMMUNICATION . WEB STRUCTURE - ART AND MASS MEDIA - MARIBOR

THIS IS SKETCH, PLEASE MAKE COMMENTS

ON US

LAPIEZA is an artist network, directed since 2009 by Anto Lloveras, conceptual artist and relational cuarator. The net is conformed by 165 artist all around the world. LAPIEZA has differnt lines of work. ART SERIES - The current system of exhibions of art is very stable in almost every country. Artist run spaces (underground) Galleries(market) Cultural Centers (work for the state agents) Museums (High art) Biennales (legitmation platforms) and the magazines of the fields. All this is ok, however, LAPIEZA has generated its own secuence and rhythm of work, where each exhibition (first 40 in Madrid center, 100m2) is a variation from the one before, a secuence of exhibitions, where artists are generating a piece for ann evoloving series, related to other artists carrers and works. This system is the basical distinction of LAPIEZA, in relational curatorial, and hast evolved up to 74 exhibitions, where each one is published from different cities, Mexico, Londom, Trondheim, Provence and Praha have been the coties where we have launched the new series and narratives. Easch show is build with 10-30 aetworks. All of them numbers and places onlline in secuence. The series have the support of the spanish ministry of Culture, through sthe deparmentt of Cultural Industries. ART-SCIENCE - With the link of Eshter Lorenzo, that has directed science networks, we have developed several projects to make some interesting field visible online, making videos and webs, where the scientist that are usually hidden in universities, meet the real online possibilities of being part of the public sphere, and start to apply contemporary methodologies of education (MOOC) through the net. These projest have been made possible with the support of FECYT (Spanish agency for new technologies and eduction).

PRODUCTS

In all the works we do, a protocole is developed to generate confort in the partnerships and at the same time, to enlarge the memory online, so we always not only research and curate, but also produce content associated. FILMS. Each artist is filmed once or twice a year, making a serial documentary on each career, and adding pieces to thhe whole concept. PHOTOS - . All situations, works, performances are pictured and added to memory. CATALOGUES, texts. Are mostly built on artists that have worked for more
that 2 years asscoated to the project. So the body of work is stable and we can define lines of text for catalogue sand biennales. BLOGS. containers of all content. PRESS RELEASES Whereer distribute the blogs to be inserted in all kind of media and soocial media. FETIVALS - We participate and have organized many festivals (PUT LIST ?), seminars andconferences, expanding the methodology and d desire of all the works we make. We are happy to show and talk about then project wherever we are onvited to, so we can promote not only the artists that buiLd the concept, but the concept itslef. Double pleasure.

ROLS of Lapieza AT SAMSA

we take 4 structured secuenced tasks.

this is what i do.

1 art direction in the interface. think and negotiate the form of products and protocols with partners. This is simple but very important, since publicity is how SAMSA IS perceieved (the suite) The work is like a marketing product, as in any other product. That will be the brand for SAMSA. (ART DIRECTIOS AND DESIGN). 2 research and history (with Jerica ZIHERL) to introduce theory and high culture as part of the production, and make a synthesis of that using the apparatus we did before. 3 Field trips to all cities were artist and seminars and workshops are. make photos videos and narratives. (list below, you are hosts and introducers to artist you want us to introduce in the shows)

4 Build 4 exhibitions. The main rol is this one, to go on, an work on all that will show and connect all new artist that are related to other partners, and intersect those artists with the network we have (the shows will have arist from croatia, serbia and slovenia, as seed, the motor of each exhibition, and will incorporate atists from scandinavia, mexico, japan, farance) The task is to have the four shows as a an international arfororum of artist, as political action, we will name the series UNITED NATION OF ART, where the structure and enpowerment of the parnerts will be fundamental to make certain historical relevance. 4 Promote all partners works - The idea in SAMSA is to incorporate the genetics of the partners, and learn from their structures and visions, and at the same time we show all the audiences we can reach the power of social sculptures (fundamental texts).

2015

Residence - 2 weeks Slovakia

Exhibition # 74 WILD FLOWERS- http://lapiezalapieza.blogspot.no/2015/09/wild-flowersexhibition-746th-season.html

Residence - 8 weeks Spain

Exhibition # 73 EXFOLIATION - http://lapiezalapieza.blogspot.no/2015/07/exfoliation2015.html

Residence - 2 weeks Prague

Residence - 2 weeks France

Exhibition # 72 DISSECTIONS - http://lapiezalapieza.blogspot.no/2015/05/art-series-72-incisions-dissections.html

Exhibition # 71 SWEETCORN BRUTALISM - http://lapiezalapieza.blogspot.no/2015/05/art-series-71-sweet-corn-brutalism-2015.html

Residence - 8 weeks London

Exhibition # 70 BUTTER FACTORY http://lapiezalapieza.blogspot.no/2015/02/art-series-70butter-factorynorway.html

Residence - 2 weeks Norway