Installation – A cravat around the arena

          Over a billion people around the world have seen Academia Cravatica’s largest project. The project was performed in Pula on 18th October 2003. The author of the installation is prof. Marijan Bušić. The installation around the Arena, the best preserved Roman amphitheatre in the world, symbolically connected the past and the future, the ancient times …

Installation – A Cravat around Dubrovnik

The project “A tie around Dubrovnik” is planned for the year 2009. The project’s basic characteristics are knotting a cravat around the Old Town walls, and its lower part will be placed in the sea. The estimate is that this spectacular installation will be recognized around the world and that millions of people will see it.

A play – The first cravat

The opening night of the play The first tie was on 12th November 2005 in Oktogon in Zagreb. The historical framework of the play is the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). The play is about a young Croatian soldier Ivan who is on the battlefield. The centre of the play’s dancing sequences is a scarf, a symbol of love and fidelity …

Installation – The ban’s Cravat

  In June 2003 as a part of Marko’s fair, a cravat, in the 19th century fashion, was placed on the monument of ban (viceroy) Josip Jelačić in the city of Zagreb. The installation was prof. Marijan Bušić’s idea and Marta Crnobrnja, an academic painter, carried out the project. A picture wall of a Croatian soldier from the Thirty Years …

Challenge of Cravat – Cravat as Croatian contribution to global culture

The first visual arts exhibition about the cravat as a specific communication media and a part of Croatian an world cultural heritage was organised in Pula by the Academia Cravatica at the same time the installation “A cravat around the Arena” was performed. Twenty, mostly Istrian authors participated in the exhibition. In 2004 the exhibition under the name “Challenge of …

Exhibition “The Knot in the Rock – The Cravats of Imota”

   19.09.2007 In the Ethnographical Museum in Zagreb, an exhibition of photographs has been opened, entitled “The Knot in the Rock – the Cravats of Imota” organized by the Academia Cravatica. The exhibition consists of about 220 old photographs taken in the period from the middle of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century. The photographs, as unique …

Cravat around Croatia

Academia Cravatica has performed another spectacular project in the summer of 2006 . The basic idea of the project is to connect all Croatian regions with a red thread (ribbon), which symbolises connecting Croatian cultural and geographical diversities into a whole, along the state borders and organise various activities in cities and interesting tourist locations. DESCRIPTION OF THE ART INSTALLATION …

The tie in the rye

  Cultivating land is the foundation of human civilization in general. Cultivating fields (agera) leads to agriculture, and in a figurative sense every area of man’s work is a field. So also in art, we talk about the field of a picture, which in land art has becomes the literal field on a background of land. If we turn our …

Picture-book – Veli Jože’s cravat or The fairy wedding in the arena of Pula

  Daniel Načinović wrote the text for the picture-book and academic painter Ivan Gregov illustrated it. The picture-book was published in 2003 as a tribute to 2000 years of the Arena in Pula. Inspired by the art installation “A tie around the Arena”, the picture-book was published in three editions: Croatian, English and Italian.  

Picture-book – The story of the cravat

  It was published in 2000 in three editions: Croatian, English and Japanese. The author of the text is Božidar Prosenjak and the illustrator is Radovan Domagoj Devlić. The book had received the Grigor Vitez literary award. On 44 pages and in a modern way using both pictures and words, the book tells the story about the cravat through the …