In the Zvonimir Gallery in Baška, on Friday, July 1st at 9 p.m., an exhibition of photographs from the collection of the Museum of Arts and Crafts from Zagreb opens under the title “Fernando Soprano, photographs 1944-1974.” For the photographer Fernando Soprano (1922-1977 ) can be said to be one of the classics of national photography. His activities are connected exclusively to the city of Rijeka, where he has lived since the end of the forties of the 20th century, and he belongs to the generation that asserted itself in the fifties and sixties. On July 3, 2001, an exhibition of his photographs, curated by Dubravka Jakelić-Osrečki, was opened in the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb. The presented work (about fifty photographs) is part of the donation given to the museum by the Soprano family, whose members were present at the opening of the exhibition. Fernando Soprano’s recognizable style is associated with a characteristic focus on the individual motif of the photographic image, especially in portraits, and motifs of the harbor and ships, which the author composed on the border of photographic abstraction. The solarizations stand out from the series as an interesting segment of the author’s oeuvre, and prove Fernando Soprano as a photographer who was happy to engage in artistic experimentation. The author’s approach to the subject, especially in portraits, is direct, but at the same time the sensibility and atmosphere of the photographic image are intimate. The “Foto Soprano” studio founded by the author still operates today at the Belvedere in Rijeka, and is managed by his daughter Adriana, who will attend the opening of the exhibition on July 1, 2016, in the Zvonimir Gallery. You can see the installation of curator Dubravka Jakelić-Osrečki in the Zvonimir gallery in Bašća from July 1 to August 3. The exhibition was organized by the Livingstone Association in cooperation with the Baška Municipality Tourist Board.
