Velimir Trnski

Rođen sam u Podravini (sjeverna Hrvatska). Nakon završene Akademije likovnih umjetnosti u Zagrebu školovanje sam nastavio na grafičkom odsjeku Rietveld akademije u Amsterdamu.

Dosad sam održao 103 izložbi u Austriji, Belgiji, Njemačkoj, Nizozemskoj, Hrvatskoj, Francuskoj, bivšoj Jugoslaviji i SAD-u i moji su radovi otkupljeni za privatne kolekcije u Amsterdamu, Beču, Berlinu, Münchenu, Haagu, New Yorku, Sydneyu, Tokiju i Zagrebu.

Od 1985. godine živim i radim u Parizu, Haagu i Zagrebu.

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Velimir Trnski

I was born in Podravina, a region of northern Croatia.  Upon graduating at the Art Academy in Zagreb I continued my studies at the Rietveld Academy, in Amsterdam.

I have had 103 exhibitions so far, in Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Croatia, France, and the US.  My works are in private collections in Amsterdam, Vienna, Berlin, Munich, the Hague, New York, Sydney, Tokyo, and Zagreb.

Since 1985, I have been residing in Paris, the Hague and Zagreb.

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S nenadmašnom lakoćom slikar bilježi događaje, susrete, dolaske, odlaske, aktove, djetinjstva - sve u jednom tajnom kvadratu napukle tišine.

Ako je žena voda oplođena svjetlošću, onda je slikar uspio savršenom elipsom u njoj i izvan nje naslikati stvaranje početka.

Od prvih radova do niza ženskih likova, svako je ulje na svoj način ugravirano u vrijeme i prostor laserskom energijom. Zelena svila i rubinski konji SOUVENIRS anatomija su jednog TRENUTKA.

Slike Velimira Trnskog podsjećaju na nebeske zidove jabuka... na broševe, molitvu, ili pak pokoru.

U osami često naslanja čelo o prozor. Oni koji ga poznaju reći će bez zadrške: Trnski je slikar iz prelijepe zemlje, zemlje smaragdnih livada, neukroćena vjetra i kobaltna mora. Svaki potez olovke pečat je za sebe. Takva su mu djela, takav mu je život.

Je li Trnski hrvatski Klimt ili Vrubl? Nađimo prostora za budućnost i odgovor.

Maria Doverspike, Washington

With a lightness and an easiness unsurpassed, the artist chronicles events, encounters, comings and goings, nudes, childhood days - all in a mysterious frame of broken silence.

If a woman is water, impregnated by light, then the artist succeeded - with a perfect ellipse, inside and outside of her, the painter paints the creation of the beginning.

From his earliest works to the string of female faces, each of Trnski's oils bears time and space engraved, as if cut with a laser.  Green silk and ruby horses, SOUVENIRS,  they are an anatomy of a MOMENT in time.

Trnski’s paintings bring to mind heavenly walls of apples.... they recall brooches, they bring back a prayer, they call for atonement.

In solitude, he presses his forehead against the window.  Those that know him do not hesitate to say:  Trnski is a painter from a beautiful country, land of emerald meadows, land of unharnessed wind, land of cobalt-blue sea.  With each and every draw of his pencil he leaves a lasting imprint. Such is his art, such is his life.

Is Trnski a Croatian Klimt or Vrubl? Let's make room for future, and the answer.

Maria Doverspike, Washington

Djelo Velimira Trnskog zrači mirnom senzualnošću ispod koje se nazire slikarski naboj.

Nije li ta mirnoća samo maska jedne razdiruće strasti? Njegova se djela mogu smjestiti u čitavu jednu tradiciju koja pomalo podsjeća na bečki sjaj Klimta ili Kokoschke. Međutim, ne bi trebalo previše inzistirati na ovoj usporedbi. Kod Trnskoga je LIJEPO obilježeno realizmom obogaćenim dozom izvanvremenskog.

Velimir Trnski's work radiates a calm sensuousness under which lurks the artist's real energy.

Isn't this calmness just a mask for a burning passion?  His works could be part of a tradition reminiscent of Klimt and Kokoschka.  However, one need not insist too much on such a comparison. With Trnski, BEAUTIFUL is marked with realism enhanced with a certain amount of extratemporal.

Stephane Rey, Bruxelles, 1992

Po svojoj prirodi individualist, Trnski nikad nije bio slikar krda, nije tražio zaštitu ili elemozinu u ime bilo koje avangardne bratovštine. U hrvatskom je slikarstvu Trnski od početka bio enfant terrible, svojeglavi samotnik, prkosan i beskompromisan slikar s izraženom potrebom za neovisnošću i s nenarušivim pravom da bude i "u krivu" ako osjeti potrebu da zaista bude "kriv". Oduvijek je i u svakoj prilici bio nepopustljiv u obrani svoje vizije. Uostalom, upravo je to bilo ishodište njegova otpora nevjerojatnoj lakoći trendovskog iluzionizma. 

Trnski je veliki virtuoz, izvrstan crtač, slikar koji zanatsku perfekciju "drži u malom prstu" i koji ne vidi nikakav razlog da to žrtvuje u ime bilo čije i bilo kakve površnosti, da se zbog tuđe nesposobnosti odrekne onog najdragocjenijeg u sebi - svoje slikarske nadarenosti.

Josip Depolo, Zagreb

An individualist, by nature, Trnski has never been one of the pack, never in need of being sheltered by some avant-garde brotherhood.  In Croatian painting, Trnski has been an enfant terrible, from the very beginning, a wilful loner, a defiant painter, not malleable, with a pronounced need to be independent, with an indisputable right to “be wrong,” if and when he feels the need to, indeed, “be wrong.”  At all times, a relentless defender of his own vision.  After all, that is precisely where his resistance to an easy-going trend-setting illusionism stems from. 

Trnski is a magnificent virtuoso, an exceptional sketcher, a perfectionist of his métier;  he sees no reason to sacrifice that to any or anyone’s perfunctoriness, and to loose what is most valuable - his own painting giftedness.

Josip Depolo, Zagreb

Trnski stvara izvan bilo kakvih pojedinačnih ili tržišnih diktata, slijedeći jedino svoj vlastiti autorski, umjetnički impuls. Njegov recentni izraz nedvojbeno je rezultat skladna spoja autentične slikarske vještine i nesputana svijeta imaginacije.

Slikarstvo Velimira Trnskog već je prihvaćeno kao umjetnička vrijednost, pa ga se više ni ne ocjenjuje, nego se, kao i kod svih velikih stvaraoca, u njegovu radu uživa. Za njega se kao slikara i osebujnu autorsku ličnost u potpunosti može ustvrditi: "Veliki ljudi nikad nas ne podsjećaju na nekoga drugoga."

Maja Briski, Zagreb

Trnski works outside any other individual or market-oriented dictates, guided only by his own artistic impulse.  His contemporary work is undeniably the result of a harmonious blend of authentic painting skills and an unrestrained world of imagination. 

The value of his art has already been established, and does not need further assessments, but needs to be appreciated, like other great masters' works.  When speaking of Trnski, as a painter and a singular, distinctive auteur, one can assert: "Great masters never remind us of anyone else."

Maja Briski, Zagreb