At the 23rd Annual American Visions National Photography Juried Competition, organized by The Museum of Anthropology at the California State University, photographs by Zoran Zelic from ArchiCulture Design Studio received honorable mentions and were selected for the Exhibition at the Museum, opening September 4, 2007.
For this year′s competition theme, participants were asked to show their vision on the concept of PATTERNS reflected in the juxtaposition between human material culture and the natural world. After much deliberation, the judges selected the top 25 photographs based on composition, their ability to illustrate the main theme, and their descriptive label interpretation.
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iCulture
In her letter of congratulations to Zoran, the curator of the Museum of Anthropology wrote:
We are very pleased to tell you that almost all of your photographs have been selected by our judges for inclusion in the 2007 American Visions Photography Exhibition Portraits and Patterns: A Study of Humanity and the Natural World.
Further, the photos iCulture and Reflecting Past were selected for honorable mentions. Your accepted photographs were from a pool of nationwide submissions, for exhibition and we want to offer our congratulations. We certainly look forward to seeing more of your work.
P.S. - The judges loved your work and the range of your themes. They were surprised when it was revealed that so many of yours were included in the show.
- Adrienne Scott, Curator of MoA
Reflecting Past
Artist′s Statement ... >>
Art, architecture, clothing, and all aspects of our culture rely on patterns to communicate meaning and beauty. Man-made structures exist, inextricably, with the natural world and they can be built to mimic, defy, or blend with nature. As an architect and designer, I have always been interested in patterns and how they relate to form, texture, and design aesthetics.
What defines a pattern? How do we perceive it? My goal is to further investigate and to reflect on the concept of patterns throughout our culture today and in the past, through the eye of the camera. Inspired by their visual manifestation, I use photography as an expressive tool to document patterns in a form of visual art.
But rather than just convey the optical description of a subject, the compositional manipulation is performed so that its appearance ultimately becomes an unrecognizable, abstract phenomena, beyond the actual context it reflects.
I see environments and the life that moves through it as inevitable art forms. The greatest challenge as an architect is to ultimately blur the line between everyday living and art; to make the spaces we live in inspiring, and the things we use beautiful.
- Zoran Zelic
| >> To view all of our photographs submitted for the Competition and included in the Exhibition, and to order prints, please see Patterns album in our Photography section. |
| >> Patterns were also a theme Zoran has chosen as a graduate student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where he attended Architectural Photography course in 2005. Photos were exhibited at the architectural schools in London and Copenhagen, and published in the Columbia University GSAPP publications. To view the photos, and to order prints, please visit our Photography section. |
