Flood Boundary, 1964 -1972

Ivan Kožarić, Granica poplave / Flood Boundary, 1964-1972, photomontage [image Ivan Kožarić, IncEdu]
Ivan Kožarić, Granica poplave / Flood Boundary, 1964-1972, photomontage [image Ivan Kožarić, IncEdu]
POI Number
02
Typology
Artworks
Country
Croatia
Municipality
City of Zagreb

Two sculptures from the “Shapes of Space” cycle, created in 1964, are subtitled “Flood Remembering the Flood”. On 26 October of that year, the constantly rising waters of the river Sava, due to heavy rain, flooded Zagreb. Shapes evoking scenes of a flooded city protrude from calm cubic forms resembling swollen water. In memory of the catastrophe, Ivan Kožarić exhibited these sculptures in 1972, along with drawings and photomontages, at the 7th Zagreb Salon in the section "Proposal: The city as a space of plastic events". He proposed for versions of them, big in size (2 x 3 x 2 m), to be placed in a park along Savska Road, stretching from the underpass towards the Sava – in the place where the boundary of the flood had been.