Aleksandar Srnec (30 July 1924 – 27 March 2010) was a

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n artist. He is mainly known for his

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designs and

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and

lumino kinetic art Lumino Kinetic art is a subset and an art historical term in the context of the more established kinetic art, which in turn is a subset of new media art. The historian of art Frank Popper views the evolution of this type of art as evidence of "aes ...

. Srnec was one of the founding members of the Exat 51 group whose active members between 1950 and 1956 were the architects

Vjenceslav Richter Vjenceslav Richter (; 8 April 1917 – 2 December 2002) was a Croatian architect. He was also known for his work in the fields of urbanism, sculpture, graphic arts, painting, and stage design. Career In 1949, Richter graduated at the Department ...

, Bernardo Bernardi, Zdravko Bregovac,

Božidar Rašica Božidar Rašica (28 December 1912 – 13 September 1992) was an architect, scenographer and painter. Career Rašica was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, to Serbian parents. He studied in Rome, Belgrade, Warsaw and finally Zagreb, where he graduat ...

and Vladimir Zaharović and the painters Vlado Kristl and Ivan Picelj. He made abstract art based on the use of geometric shapes. In 1953, he designed his first kinetic objects entitled, ''Space Modulator'', while in 1956, he began his experiments with moving sculptures and reliefs. In the 1960s, Srnec participated in the ''New Tendencies'' exhibitions. From 1962, he became involved with luminal-kinetic experiments, for example ''Luminoplastic I'', and from 1968, he began making "ambience art". His work entitled ''Luminoplastic Ambience'', exhibited in 1967, in Gallery SC, (Student Centre Gallery) in Zagreb, was the first luminal-kinetic object/ambience in Croatian art. He collaborated with the Zagreb School of Animated Films and made sets for three puppet films. He also made the animated film ''A Man and His Shadow'' together with Dragutin Vunak. In the period from 1974 to 1977, he returned to making kinetic sculptures in highly polished metals. He also began experimenting with light. He exhibited at many shows in Croatia and abroad: Zagreb (1953, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1992), Belgrade (1953, 1956, 1968, 1971), Banja Luka (1972), Paris (1959), London (1960, 1961) and Mannheim (1971). His retrospective exhibition ''Present Absence'' was held in two cities: at the Gallery of Old and Contemporary Masters and at Varteks facilities in Varaždin, (2008) and at the

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, (2010). He received many awards, including the

Vladimir Nazor Award The Vladimir Nazor Award () is a Croatian prize for arts and culture established in 1959, and awarded every year by the country's Ministry of Culture. Named after the writer Vladimir Nazor (1876–1949), the prize is awarded to Croatian artists ...

for life achievement (1999) and the Croatian Association of Artists Life Achievement Award (2008).

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