Midnight Fishing

2008
oil/glass
290 x 390 mm
signature: down in the right corner: Gjerek S. / 2008.

The sight of night fishing with barely indicated lunar light. Lighting with colors and forms contributes to the fantastic and symbolic charge of the scene. The composition is diagonally oriented with three expressive figures in coloring and postures. The dynamic rich vegetation goes fom left in the foreground the background, The vegetation in the background plan frames the composition, but remains fuzzy, just in the slight hints.

Stanko Gjerek was born in 1948 in Varazdin. He began to work in oil on hardboard and canvas as a high school student. Life circumstances led him to Drnje in 1971. As a child was struck by the urban landscape of Podravina and oil on glass as a painting technique. Thus begins the transfer of his vision in his paintings. He lives and works in Drnje.