- Vlatka Horvat
Surroundings
Renata Fabbri is pleased to present Surroundings, Vlatka Horvat’s first show at the gallery, and her first solo exhibition in Italy.
In the show, which works across all of the gallery’s spaces, Vlatka Horvat approaches the idea of horizon line as spatial limit and border whilst at the same time exploring its powerful and contradictory metaphorical status as aspirational destination. In works manifested in different forms and media – altered photographic image, collage, sculpture, and fragile site-responsive material interventions – she renders the horizon as an edge of space and visibility, and as a sign or site of future potential and action.
Using simple gestures she frequently works with – cutting and severing, and then relocating parts of objects and images, or repairing them with decidedly inadequate means – Vlatka Horvat constructs new, makeshift incarnations of the human figure, of landscape, of formerly utilitarian objects. In all of the works presented in the show, she follows a double logic of either connecting, or interrupting, particular lines in her source images, in the physical space, and in everyday objects – highlighting and making visible certain formal and material properties of items she disassembles and then reconstitutes, whilst also invoking their imaginary and associative possibilities.
Throughout Surroundings, Vlatka Horvat works and reworks the line as a compositional element central to framing and making readable human presence in space, approaching the line both as a means of tracing our presence and as a trace left by our presence. In addition to the compositional significance of the line – its function to delineate space, demarcate limits and boundaries, and trace trajectories – the show also focuses on the line as a common metaphor for continuity, infinity and distance and as a sign of future, of possibility, and of the end.
Renata Fabbri is pleased to present Surroundings, Vlatka Horvat’s first show at the gallery, and her first solo exhibition in Italy.
In the show, which works across all of the gallery’s spaces, Vlatka Horvat approaches the idea of horizon line as spatial limit and border whilst at the same time exploring its powerful and contradictory metaphorical status as aspirational destination. In works manifested in different forms and media – altered photographic image, collage, sculpture, and fragile site-responsive material interventions – she renders the horizon as an edge of space and visibility, and as a sign or site of future potential and action.
Using simple gestures she frequently works with – cutting and severing, and then relocating parts of objects and images, or repairing them with decidedly inadequate means – Vlatka Horvat constructs new, makeshift incarnations of the human figure, of landscape, of formerly utilitarian objects. In all of the works presented in the show, she follows a double logic of either connecting, or interrupting, particular lines in her source images, in the physical space, and in everyday objects – highlighting and making visible certain formal and material properties of items she disassembles and then reconstitutes, whilst also invoking their imaginary and associative possibilities.
Throughout Surroundings, Vlatka Horvat works and reworks the line as a compositional element central to framing and making readable human presence in space, approaching the line both as a means of tracing our presence and as a trace left by our presence. In addition to the compositional significance of the line – its function to delineate space, demarcate limits and boundaries, and trace trajectories – the show also focuses on the line as a common metaphor for continuity, infinity and distance and as a sign of future, of possibility, and of the end.
- Vlatka Horvat, Tree Line (with Insert), 2014Inkjet print collage on box mount masonite, sand paper, acrylic gel, 19,7x25,5 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, Tree Line (with Edges), 2017Inkjet print collage on MDF, corrugated cardboard, acrylic gel, 19,7x25 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, Tree Line (with Sparkles), 2017Inkjet print mounted on MDF, foam rubber, acrylic gel, 19.7x25 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, Tree Line (with Mesh), 2017Inkjet print mounted on MDF, plastic mesh, acrylic gel, 19.7x26.5 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, Tree Line (with Shapes), 2017Inkjet print mounted on MDF, wood, acrylic gel, 19.7x25 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, At Some Length, 2017Cotton twine, elastic, artist tape, 863 cm long
- Vlatka Horvat, Fixed Holes, 2017Corrugated cardboard, felt, electrical tape, 3x150x145 cm, courtesy Renata Fabbri
- Vlatka Horvat, Fractions, 2017Found door stoppers, 4.5x40x40 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, Set Right (Table Leg), Set Right (Tabletop), 2016Table Leg: Modified wooden table, corrugated cardboard, electrical tape, 72x79x55 cm
Tabletop: Modified wooden table, corrugated cardboard, electrical tape, 71.5x79x49 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, End in Sight (04), 2017Giclée print collage on Hahnemuhle Rag, 52x39,7 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, End in Sight (07), 2017Giclée print collage on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Unframed: 42x29.7 cm / Framed: 52x39.7 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, End in Sight (06), 2017Giclée print collage on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Unframed: 42x29.7 cm / Framed: 52x39.7 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, End in Sight (05), 2017Giclée print collage on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Unframed: 42x29.7 cm / Framed: 52x39.7 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, End in Sight (04), 2017Giclée print collage on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Unframed: 42x29.7 cm / Framed: 52x39.7 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, End in Sight (03), 2017Giclée print collage on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Unframed: 42x29.7 cm / Framed: 52x39.7 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, End in Sight (02), 2017Giclée print collage on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Unframed: 42x29.7 cm / Framed: 52x39.7 cm
- Vlatka Horvat, End in Sight (01), 2017Giclée print collage on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Unframed: 42x29.7 cm / Framed: 52x39.7 cm

- Tim Etchells,
- Vlatka Horvat


- Vlatka Horvat
Feb 4- Apr 2, 2022
PEER Gallery, London, UK

- Vlatka Horvat
Sept 09– Oct 18, 2022
Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia
Curated by Ana Dević/WHW

- Vlatka Horvat
Mar 8 – Oct 4, 2020
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Curated by What, How & for Whom / WHW (Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović) Laura Amann, Aziza Harmel (Curatorial assistants)

- Vlatka Horvat,
- Florian Roithmayr
Oct 4 – 7, 2018
Booth 15
Ambika P3
University of Westminster,
35 Marylebone Road, London
NW1 5LS