At 60. on the anniversary of the birth of Klavdij tutta, we prepared an overview exhibition at Kromberk Castle, which covers all the artist's Creative Cycles, from the early 80s. flight 20. centuries to the present. "Klavdij Tutta is a Slovenian artist with a Mediterranean breadth, which he creates with optimism, serenity, topicality and all seriousness in the midst of the problems of everyday life and with a reminder of the Mediterranean expanse with a view to infinity, which can be limited only or only by a personal horizon" wrote Milena Koren Santa Claus.
Tutt's artistic oeuvre stems from his admiration for the Mediterranean, karst, seaside landscape, which is transformed into an imaginary landscape through selected images and symbols. According to St. Nicholas Komelj, "it is rare to meet a painter who is so attached to a landscape. Although Tutta has lived in Kranj for almost a quarter of a century, and although he previously attended both high school and the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, his native Gorizia remains a promised land for him, which marks his work as genius loci."From a very early age, a distinctly fairy-tale, magical dimension appeared in him. His early painting oeuvre was marked by dynamic, gestural strokes with colour-saturated abstract forms. Then there were cycles with expressive stylization of the animal world and landscape. The most common motifs were Horned bulls, which filled the pictorial field with a considerable amount of aggression as symbols of the vital power of the Mediterranean, in dialogue with menhirs, stone monoliths, ancient symbols of folk beliefs. "The images of bulls, which are the painter's most characteristic emblem, are first associated with the evocation of sacrifices, phallic eroticism, burning in the nets of the sun and trembling in the trembling of the stars, if I rely on suggestive titles ... but soon they gradually transform into idyllic friendly Bulls, reminiscent of children's toys, until in the latest paintings they are simplified into purely linear signs, almost ideograms" wrote St. Nicholas Komelj. The central theme still remained the Mediterranean with cypresses, birds, dolmens, Horned bulls, which the author composed into ever new compositions on a twinkling basis, built from tiny strokes of color. In recent years, Tutt's gaze has turned to the seascape. The central motifs thus became ships, lighthouses, piers and man's relation to the immense sea horizons. In parallel with the painting cycles, prints, drawings, various objects and assemblages from various materials are constantly being created.
About the artist
Klavdij Tutta was born in Postojna in 1958 and grew up in Nova Gorica. At the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, he graduated in printmaking in 1982 and continued his postgraduate studies in printmaking and completed it in 1984. The Tuttov to further the artistic development are important in the study of transport in the world, especially during the residence in the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and in the year of 1995. He has had over 240 solo exhibitions, participated in more than 370 group exhibitions at home and around the world. He has received 62 national and international honors for his work. Klavdij Tutta is the initiator of many art manifestations, including the International Art Workshop Slovenia, open to art, at the Sinj vrh above Ajdovska. He is dedicated to organizing cultural events and is an animator of culture for youth. He deals with painting, graphics, sculpture, design and ambient design.
Ob 60. obletnici rojstva Klavdija Tutte smo pripravili na Gradu Kromberk pregledno razstavo, ki zaobjema vse umetnikove ustvarjalne cikle, od zgodnjih 80. let 20. stoletja do danes. »Klavdij Tutta je slovenski umetnik z mediteransko širino, ki jo ustvarja z optimizmom, vedrino, aktualnostjo in vso resnostjo sredi problemov vsakdanjika in s spominjanjem na mediteransko prostranost s pogledom v neskončnost, ki ga lahko omejuje zgolj ali samo osebni horizont« je zapisala Milena Koren Božiček.
Tuttov likovni opus izhaja iz občudovanja mediteranske, kraške, obmorske pokrajine, ki se prek izbranih podob in simbolov spreminja v imaginarni pejsaž. Po besedah Miklavža Komelja »redko srečamo slikarja, ki bi bil tako zelo navezan na neko pokrajino. Čeprav Tutta že skoraj četrt stoletja živi v Kranju in čeprav je pred tem obiskoval tako srednjo šolo kot likovno akademijo v Ljubljani, ostaja njegova rodna Goriška zanj obljubljena dežela, ki zaznamuje njegovo delo kot genius loci.« Že zelo zgodaj se je pri njem pojavila izrazito pravljična, magična razsežnost. Njegov zgodnji slikarski opus je zaznamovala dinamična, gestualna poteza z barvno nasičenimi abstraktnimi formami. Nato so nastopili cikli z ekspresivno stilizacijo živalskega sveta in krajine. Najpogostejši motivi so bili rogati biki, ki so s precejšnjo mero agresije napolnjevali slikovno polje kot simboli vitalne moči Mediterana, v dialogu z menhirji, kamnitimi monoliti, prastarimi simboli ljudskih verovanj. »Podobe bikov, ki so slikarjev najznačilnejši emblem, so najprej povezane z evokacijo žrtvovanj, faličnega erotizma, izgorevanja v mrežah sonca in drhtenja v trepetanju zvezd, če se oprem na sugestivne naslove … Toda kmalu se postopoma preobrazijo v idilične prijazne bikce, ki spominjajo na otroške igračke, dokler niso v najnovejših slikah poenostavljeni v čisto linearne znake, skorajda ideograme« je še zapisal Miklavž Komelj. Središčna tema je še vedno ostal Mediteran s cipresami, pticami, dolmeni, rogatimi bikci, ki jih je avtor sestavljal v vedno nove kompozicije na migetajoči podlagi, zgrajeni iz drobnih barvnih potez. Zadnja leta se je Tuttov pogled usmeril na morski pejsaž. Osrednji motivi so tako postali ladje, svetilniki, pomoli in človekov odnos do neizmernih morskih obzorij. Vzporedno s slikarskimi cikli vseskozi nastajajo še grafike, risbe, različni objekti in asemblaži iz raznovrstnih materialov.
O umetniku
Klavdij Tutta se je rodil v Postojni leta 1958 in odraščal v Novi Gorici. Na Akademiji za likovno umetnost v Ljubljani je diplomiral iz grafike leta 1982 in nadaljeval podiplomski študij ravno tako iz grafike ter ga zaključil leta 1984. Za Tuttov nadaljnji umetniški razvoj so pomembna študijska potovanja po svetu, posebej pa študijsko bivanje v Cité Internationale des Arts v Parizu leta 1995. Imel je preko 240 samostojnih razstav, sodeloval je na več kot 370 skupinskih razstavah doma in po svetu. Za svoje delo je prejel 62 domačih in mednarodnih priznanj. Klavdij Tutta je pobudnik mnogih likovnih manifestacij, med njimi mednarodne likovne delavnice Slovenija, odprta za umetnost, na Sinjem Vrhu nad Ajdovščino. Posveča se organizaciji kulturnih prireditev in je animator kulture za mladino. Ukvarja se s slikarstvom, grafiko, skulpturo, oblikovanjem in oblikovanjem ambientov.