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“RAKLJANSKI UMJETNICI NA JENEN MISTU – Rakljan´s artists at once” opening of the exhibition in the Krnica Tourist Information Center on Wednesday, August 2 at 9 p.m.

The Tourist Board of the Municipality of Marčana invites you to the opening of the exhibition “Rakljanski umjetnici na jenen mistu – Rakljan`s artists at once” this Wednesday, August 2, 2023, at 9 p.m.

Kristina Valić, Marija Valić – Mima and Mario Hauser will present their works together in the atrium of the Tourist Information Center in Krnica.

Kristina Valić is a self-taught artist from Rakalj. Ever since she was little, she was always drawing something and was perfectly happy when she only had a blank piece of paper in front of her, and that is still the case today. She deals with different types of art: she paints, makes sculptures in clay and makes jewelry. At this exhibition, she will present various oils on canvas with Istrian motifs of olives, stone walls, churches and sea. Before she started painting seriously in 1998, Kristina worked in fashion design. She likes to express herself in different ways. The subjects of her paintings are, in addition to landscapes, portraits of faces, flowers, angels, the sky and abstractions.

In her spare time, Marija Valić-Mima operates creatively in the Art Studio from Pula under the guidance of mentor Igor Fabris, where she makes useful and decorative ceramic objects in different techniques, and will present them at the exhibition in Krnica. Marija lives and works in Pula, with a strong presence of the influence of Rakalj and Rakalj tradition, from where she proudly points out her origin and draws inspiration and muse. By profession, she is a lawyer who practices her profession in a domestic financial institution. She is open-minded, a lover of nature and an active lifestyle.

Mario Hauser was born in Pula, and has been working and living in Rakalj since retirement. He is an electrician by profession, for some time he expressed himself with oil on canvas and graphics on glass. Around 15 years ago, he accidentally came into contact with the technique of making mosaics, and since then he has devoted himself entirely to making useful objects, such as paintings, mirrors, tables, and small benches decorated with mosaics. He mostly works for his own taste, but ofthen he also makes mosaic in scriptions on order, he likes Roman motifs and the ornament of braids and meanders. He started doing mosaics more seriously when he moved to Rakalj. He does everything himself in his home workshop: he bakes two types of cubes in a small oven; from white, black and red clay, earth-colored ones, and by adding various pigments of other colors (blue, green, yellow, etc.) to white cement, he obtains cubes of those colors, dries them and breaks them with hand pliers.

The group exhibition includes the works of three authors in one place in order to present them to the local community and numerous guests, hence the name ” Rakljanski umjetnici na jenen mistu – Rakljan artists at once”. The exhibition will be on display for a full month and can be viewed from Monday to Saturday from 8 am to 11 am and from 6 pm to 9 pm. In addition to encouraging local creativity and art, TZO Marčani’s desire is to offer primarily autochthonous content, a local, sustainable story and hand-made souvenirs through the exhibition. Welcome!