„Ego trip“ Tomislava Brajnovića|“Ego trip” by Tomislav Brajnović|
Vrijeme: studeni 2009.
Mjesto: Norveška
Time: November, 2009
Place: Norway
Rovinjski umjetnik Tomislav Brajnović, iz Istre je u Norvešku ponio dvije sadnice masline koje je planirao zarobiti u kocku leda, iskopati rupu u ledenjaku i tamo je “posaditi”. Tako su masline, zajedno s ledenjakom trebale dočekati globalno zatopljenje. No, kako je maslina na tom području strani biološki organizam, nije uspio do kraja ostvariti svoj naum.
U društvu petnaest kolega, Brajnović je kao hrvatski predstavnik sudjelovao u umjetničkom projektu”The Arctic Circle”. Na trotjednom putovanju, duž norveških obala otoka Svalbard prema Sjevernome polu, grupa umjetnika, novinara i znanstvenika putovala je brodom i ulazila u fjordove, prilazila ledenjacima te na raznim lokacijama činila umjetničke intervencije.
Njegova intervencija s maslinom bila je samo ideja koja se javila tijekom tog putovanja. Tomislav je na ovome umjetničkom putovanju sudjelovao sa svojim glavnim radom, nazvanim “Ego trip”.
“Ego trip” projekt će biti prezentiran diljem svijeta – u Madridu, New Yorku, Baselu, Londonu, a godine 2011., izložba se vraća u Hrvatsku, točnije u Rijeku.
Tomislav Brajnović, artist from Rovinj, has taken two olive seedlings from Istria to Norway in order to capture them in ice and plant them on an iceberg. Brajnović hoped that in that way the olives would live long enough to experience the global warming. But olives are not compatible with the climate, so the project remained unfinished.
Accompanied by 15 colleagues, Brajnović participated as the Croatian representative in the art project „The Arctic Circle“. During the three-week journey along Norwegian coast, Svalbard island, heading towards the North Pole, the group of artists, journalists and scientists travelled by ship and entered fyords, approached icebergs and performed artistic interventions.
Brajnović’s olive intervention was just one of the ideas which was born during the journey. Tomislav participated in this art project with his main work titled „Ego Trip“.
„Ego Trip“ project will be presented all around the world – in Madrid, New York, Basel, London, and in 2011 the exhibition will return to Croatia, more precisely, it will be staged in Rijeka.
Tomislav Brajnović je rođen 1965. u Zagrebu. Godine 1985., završio je srednju skolu grafičkog dizajna u Puli. Prvu godinu na Kraljevskoj Akademiji u Den Haagu završava 1993. godine, 1999. diplomirao je na ALU u Zagrebu, u klasi prof. Sedera. Poslijediplomski studij na Central Saint Martins College of Art u Londonu, završava 2003. godine.
Tomislav Brajnović was born in 1965 in Zagreb. In 1985 he graduated from the School of Graphic Design in Pula. In 1993 he finished his first year of college at the Royal Academy in the Hague and in 1999 he graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Zagreb, in the class of professor Seder. In 2003 he concluded his postgraduate studies at the Central Saint Martins College of Art in London.
