Nenad Saljic

Book Announcement: DeVOID

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Fabric Hardcover Folder, 23x30x3 cm
18 Loose Color Photographs 90×30 cm (146 Pages)
Publisher: Orada GmbH Bern, Switzerland
Limited Edition of 100 copies
ISBN 978-3-033-07763-8

Price: 90.00€ (shipping included)

Book & Exhibition Announcement: VOID

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Published in conjunction with the exhibition:
VOID: NENAD ŠALJIĆ
March 14–30, 2019

KRANJČAR GALLERY
Kaptol 26, Zagreb, Croatia

Book Presentation & Exhibition Opening:
Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 7:00 PM

VOID: NENAD ŠALJIĆ
Two-volume Box Set, 272 pages, 23 x 31 x 4 cm
English/Croatian, Hardcover
Vol 1: 152 pages, 59 B&W Tritone Photographs
Vol 2: 120 pages, 47 B&W Tritone Photographs
Publisher: ORADA GmbH, Bern, Switzerland
Limited Edition of 200 copies
ISBN 978-3-033-07152-0

Price: 135.00€ (shipping included)

Book Vernissage – BIRTH OF A SHIP

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Buchvernissage
Sonntag, 21. Mai 2017, 11 Uhr

Die Ausstellung dauert bis zum 28. Mai 2017
Öffnungszeiten: Di-Fr 14h – 18h30, Sa 11h – 14h

GALERIE RIGASSI BY SOON
Münstergasse 62, 3011 Bern
Tel. 079 311 77 88; rigassi@bluewin.ch
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Exhibition & Book Announcement: BIRTH OF A SHIP

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SOLO EXHIBITION:
BIRTH OF A SHIP / RAĐANJE BRODA
Opening on New Year’s Day 2017 at 00:00
Photo Gallery Split
Marmontova 5, Split, Croatia
31 December 2016 – 25 January 2017

BOOK PRESENTATION:
10 January 2017 at 20:00
Photo Gallery Split
Marmontova 5, Split, Croatia

Kevin’s speech

Ladies and gentlemen, friends, enemies and fellow travellers through time and space, we are gathered here this evening to celebrate the birth of a boat while the rest of the world celebrates the birth of a carpenter’s son from the Middle East about 2017 years ago and the start of a new year in Christendom.

Neno has provided a stunning pictorial support to a story I wrote a couple of years ago about the death of a boat, strange but true. The path of Neno to reach this point is truly inspirational.

A gifted economist, able to advise people on how to avoid taxes and create off-shore accounts, Neno had the idea of changing his life-style. He has done so.

He has taken pictures of people in caves.

He decided to go for something much bigger; his decision to travel to Switzerland and take pictures of large pieces of chocolate was an idea which could only have been inspired by a higher power.

Unfortunately, Toblerone was unable to provide a piece of chocolate big enough for his purposes so he told them to fuck off and took a few pictures of the Matterhorn instead. He couldn’t afford a hotel room, being on a small budget, so had to stay up all night, in the freezing cold, with his camera put on a long aperture in case he missed something, such as the mountain moving to Tibet.

This resulted in him winning an international prize from the National Geographic magazine, for those of you don’t know this publication, it’s a bit like Playboy but without the naughty bits. The picture has also been published on the website of the well-respected, xenophobic, ultra-right wing, pro-Brexit British tabloid, the Daily Mirror. I think I made a comment about it, possibly the only one to get posted online.

Inspiration doesn’t come easily to Neno, I know… he’s a lousy cook. Having read a story about Vikings, he decided to do a photo composition of antique Viking helmets in Split. He couldn’t find any. However he has a friend who wanted to build a boat.

This friend, Gugo, had only just started on an extremely expensive project that would take him a little more than twelve years. Being a relatively old man when he started, his project turned into a race between the boat being built and his death. Luckily for all concerned, death lost this race.

However, while demonically taking thousands and thousands of pictures during the process of observing the boat being built and, at the same time trying to ignore the chorus of voices stating that “it will never float, you have to turn it around, it’s upside down!”, Neno noticed that his Viking helmet project was not quite dead in the water, unlike the boat. His eagle eye and trained photographer’s vision observed that if a picture was taken from a certain angle, the boat would, indeed look like a huge Viking helmet! His sanity was saved, and a bare patch on my living room wall was covered. It now hosts a huge picture of a Viking helmet signed by Neno. Such are the vagaries of life. The picture is also included in the book illustrating my story and is the star of the poster promoting this event, though why a picture of a Viking helmet has anything to do with the birth of a ship is anyone’s guess. But, perhaps that’s only me being a little stupid.

This exhibition, stars pictures of the boat in all it’s pure naked beauty. The story isn’t bad either if you get the book. Like his Swiss chocolate project, resulting in award winning pictures of the Matterhorn, this exhibition showcases Neno’s ability to change the most ordinary object into a thing of beauty. I can’t wait until he starts photographing ladies well-rounded bottoms.

With these few words, I would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year, may it be better than the last…. Enjoy the exhibition and leave some booze for me…… Neno, your turn…. Thank you.

Book Review: Matterhorn: Portrait of a Mountain

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Don’t be misled by the prosaic title of this book. The Matterhorn is hardly “just a mountain.” Straddling the border between Switzerland and Italy, the Matterhorn may not be the world’s tallest pinnacle, but it’s arguably the most dramatic, its almost perfect pyramidal shape offering four distinct faces to the world. The British art critic John Ruskin called it “the most noble cliff in Europe.”

Nearly as awe-inspiring are the images that Croatian photographer Nenad Saljic has made of the Hornli Ridge, which connects the East and North faces of this fabled peak. A mountaineer in his youth, Saljic utilized time exposures to capture the sweeping movement of clouds and the streaking paths of stars in images of infinite variety and fascination. His photographs graphically invoke the Matterhorn’s mystique and majesty, as well as its menace—some 500 climbers have died trying to summit it—while seemingly evoking its past, present and future.
By Dean Brierly
Black & White Magazine, Issue 112, Dec 2015, USA

Book Review: Matterhorn: Portrait of a Mountain

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Similar to Japanese woodcut artist Katsushika Hokusai’s 36 views of Mount Fuji, here Croatian photographer Nenad Šaljić focuses on capturing the essence of the almost perfectly shaped pyramid peak that is the Matterhorn. Alongside his 43 black & white pictures, Šaljić includes historic moments related to the mountain.

By Anna Bonita Evans
Outdoor Photography (UK), 197, Out There
September 2015

Solo Show at Kunst Zürich 15

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NENAD.ŠALJIĆ.MATTERHORN:
Portrait of a Myth \ Der Mythos im Porträt
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OPENING HOURS
October 29 to November 1, 2015
Thursday ,4 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Friday, 12 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday | Sunday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

VERNISSAGE
Thursday, October 29, 2015, 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.

LOCATION
ABB Hall 550 
Ricarda-Huch-Strasse | 8050 Zürich
Booth G4

Book Review: Matterhorn: Portrait of a Mountain

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THERE are some images that can only be captured by someone with a personal, and borderline spiritual, understanding of a location. Swiss photographer Nenad Saljic’s new book contains perhaps one of the best recent examples of this. Within its pages there are a variety of ‘portraits’ of a single location: Switzerland’s famous (and at times infamous) Alpine mountain, the Matterhorn. Nenad trained as a mountaineer and caver in his youth, and it was these experiences that caused him to fall deeply in love with, as he terms it, ‘nature’s most ancient textures, forms and shapes’. In this volume we find a visual document of Nenad’s love affair with the Matterhorn. Each image shows the vast formation under a variety of weather conditions – mist, storm, sun and rain. A pure overwhelming beauty suffuses every image. Matterhorn is an incredible and perfect encapsulation of the sublime. ★★★★★

By Oliver Atwell
The latest and best books from the world of photography
July 18, 2015

Book & Exhibitions Announcement

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Nenad Šaljić
MATTERHORN
Portrait of a Mountain \ Porträt eines Berges

ISBN 978-3-033-05067-9
English\German
Hardcover\30×30 cm\120 pages
43 Black & White Duotone Photographs
Publisher: Orada & Galerie Rigassi Bern, Switzerland
Book Release Date: 25 June 2015
Price: 96.00 CHF
(65.00£\92.00€\102.00$)

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Published in conjunction with the exhibition:
NENAD ŠALJIĆ.MATTERHORN:
Portrait of a Myth \ Der Mythos im Porträt
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25 June – 8 August 2015
CH-3011 Bern, Münstergasse 62
T +41 (0) 31 311 69 64
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10 July – 10 October 2015
CH-3920 Zermatt, Riedweg 156
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Nenad Saljic at KUNSTRÄUME ZERMATT

Sieben Künstler – ein Berg \ Seven Artists – One Mountain
KUNSTRÄUME ZERMATT
10 July – 30 November 2015
CH-3920 Zermatt, Hofmattstrasse 4
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The Landscape Photography of Nenad Saljic

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Fotografija-60-61-360x425… In order to understand the significance of the award-wining series of works by Nenad Saljic, in both an international as well as local context, we need to delve deeper into the history of photography itself, and landscape photography in particular, as its own autonomous genre. Landscape photography, which is at the center of the author’s work, stands out among other genres in photography precisely because it does not capture a moment in time or the fleeting nature of objects, which is characteristic of the medium as a whole, particularly for journalistic or life photography. Landscape photography, in complete contrast to those genres, doesn’t capture a moment, but rather the persistence and stability of a geological timeframe, which routinely transcends time for both the observer, and the photographer. It is by virtue of their convergence that many questions arise, which also transcend the common themes of photography, and introduce wholly new concepts for perception and analysis, the psychological and metaphysical concepts in defining time, and the concept of lasting and temporality. This is also true of the geocosmic time present in the photographs of Nenad Saljic, which routinely showcases not only stars or massive rock formations, but also temporal weather conditions.

Landscapes such as this, once photographed, have an almost therapeutic effect upon the observer. For those of us who’ve not physically scaled mountains, particularly not at night, these photographs offer the opportunity of photographically facilitated meditation in nature, at a somewhat lesser, and thus less intimidating, scale, as well as an experience devoid of the physical and climatic hardships that the author might have encountered.

… Namely, landscape photography doesn’t portray just the landscape itself; rather, as can be seen in Saljic’s work, it also includes the complex relationship between author and object. The author faces objects of remarkable longevity, as would an observer, which allows him to reevaluate his own importance and temporality. The impact of such emotions is often visible on the photographs themselves, and we encounter melancholic and dour, calming, terrifying or even enticing landscapes. These landscapes clearly appear as subjects in their momentary interaction with the photographer, i.e. the observer. The author faces them alone, in evident silence, often at night… seemingly without fear.

… Judging from the photographs of Nenad Saljic, who follows the ways of past photographers by going on expeditions to far and foreign mountain spaces, in which he mostly works at night, in a world of ecocataclysm, the relationship between man and landscape remains, in a way, an unchangeable form of communication, a place of contemplation and communication. The poetic and mystical, far and frightening, changing and simultaneously lasting mountain massifs in these photographs communicate precisely that warning which they communicated several hundred years ago, of the transient nature of man, while simultaneously being critical of civilization itself, which, while not portrayed in the photographs themselves, becomes a background motif for them.

Ana Peraica, Ph. D.
Fotografija, No 60-61, 2014, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Matterhorn at HANGART – Zadar, Croatia

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HANGART Group Exhibition

July 31 – 13 September, 2014
Marina Zadar
Ivana Meštrovića 2
Zadar, Croatia

Exhibited Artists:
Damir Babić, Petar Barišić, Boris Berc, Neven Bilić, Fedor Fischer, Ivona Jurić, Ivan Kovač, Darija Dolanski Majdak, Marin Marinič, Mak Melcher, Mladen Radolović Mrlja, Dalibor Stošić, Nenad Šaljić, Stjepan Šandrk, Robert Šimrak, Bojan Šumonja, Goran Tomljenović, Vladimir Dodig Trokut, Matko Vekić, Igor Zirojević.