With exhibition Imotski People in Cravats at The Beginning of The 20th Century Academia Cravatica starts with a brand new cycle of research and collecting sources on historic symbolism of cravat captured in photographs during the 19th and 20th century in various parts of Croatia.Cravat was a certain in Imota, a whole lot more than a fashion particle.
Photographs of family and social life through the past two centuries make a certain almanac of history that points out to the fact that outfit of the town people was at the same level as large city centres.
See the exhibition of world renown Croatian artists and their original expressions on cravats as symbols of culture and a fashion detail per se.
You can see an ornamental richness of various solutions which gain spirituality as much as they loose literalness. In this exhibition, these solutions are beyond factualism and amalgamated icons represent imagination’s triumph over mere concreteness of the motif – a motif that is not a rope around the neck but a place where an artist can freely create…
