GORAN RADOŠEVIĆ

THERE WILL BE NO WINTER

February 3rd - 15th 2025

Exhibiton opening: Monday, February 3rd, 19h

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They descend from Kamešnica mountain and chase away the winter. They pass through the sparse landscape and villages camouflaged in the karst, the same stone from which they are built. The grayness breaks the concrete or only a few white facades. Otherwise, we call this progress. The first sees them, the second hears them, and the third joins them in the dance. They often drink with them and eat pancetta, but it is most beautiful to watch them from a distance. It is easy to mistake them for a slender cypress when their silhouettes are outlined by the setting sun.

 

With their hands hidden under colorful strips of cut clothes, they lift everything they can on a vertical sheepskin. They have been calling for spring since time immemorial, regardless of who rules over the land they call home. Balancing the sheepskin on their heads has become increasingly difficult lately because new things, values, and technologies are coming. The smell of sheep is less noticeable compared to the prominent smells, and spring is now guaranteed, despite the ever-increasing burden on heads, shoulders, and hips; hunger is heard less and less. For the last seventy years or so, they have been aided by strange devices that hum, smoke, and are as strong as a herd of oxen. There are also red bricks, concrete, and iron, which is now abundant. They have been calling for centuries, and their persistent dance seems to have paid off.

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They have brought an ever longer spring and there will be no more winter.

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The exhibition There Will Be No Winter presents a series of illustrations inspired by the tradition of Didi, which is still cherished today by people from the Dalmatian hinterland, specifically the areas around Sinj and Kamešnica. Didi are the heralds of spring - with dancing, ringing bells and long walks, they urge the retreat of winter, literally scaring away evil spirits. In a fictional, modernized version, Did becomes the herald of prosperity and newer, techno-centric times.

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Goran Radošević (1988, Split) is an illustration and 2D animation author . He completed undergraduate studies in Visual Communications at the Academy of Arts in Split (2012) and graduate studies in Animated Film and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (2016). He participated in numerous exhibitions, film festivals and projects in culture, and collaborated with a number of prominent clients in Croatia and abroad. He is a member of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists of Applied Arts (ULUPUH). Since 2019, he has been working as an external associate in the title of assistant at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy in Split.
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