GALLERY “ZVONIMIR” BAŠKA – 10.06. – 08.07.2022.
Claudio Frank was born in Opatija on November 2, 1940. He finished secondary music school in Zagreb in 1964, after which he performed as a violinist in the theater orchestras of Rijeka, Zagreb, Trieste and Palma de Mallorca. He started painting in the sixties, receiving his first lessons from the Opatija painter Zlatko Faulwetter, and then from the prominent Rijeka visual artist and pedagogue Romolo Venucci. He has been exhibiting independently since 1974 in Rijeka, Opatija, Zagreb, Paris, Vienna, Venice. He is the winner of many professional awards and recognitions. He graduated in painting in 1979 at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. While studying painting in Milan, Frank perfected his violin, studying music at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory. He also lived in Paris for a long time after his studies. Today, his studio in Volosko, along with a violin and a piano, exudes the colors and smells of art. Mediterraneo.hr The exhibition before you is another creation of a true bohemian who in our digital world continues to tirelessly question the artistic visual and auditory environment. There is a good reason to call the exhibition “Mediterraneo.hr”, which is associated with digital online multimedia communication. Faithful to the expression and color on the canvas, in his distinctive style, Claudio Frank prepared paintings full of Mediterranean motifs, in which with energetic brushstrokes and vivid colors you can feel the power of nature and sense the smells and sounds of the sea, winds, rain, waves or the sound of sails and the weight of human effort and strength that fights with nature or hears the sound of music. That, music, because painting and music with Claudio Frank, they form an inseparable union. Just looking at Claudio Franko’s paintings you get the feeling that you can hear the music in every move he makes to build motifs of boats, coastal houses, the sea, sails, fish, crabs… Tonči Denis Redić, prof.