Darko Mesek
Engineer and product designer, Varaždin 1963
Darko graduated from Faculty for Mechanical engineering in 1989 and management coaching in 2004. From 2005 he started working on different projects in the field of product design (fireplaces, violin accessories, design tables). In 2010 he founded FireArt to promote his creative projects.
Designed for FireArt:
- SCULPTURE FORM A
- SCULPTURE FORM B
- ORIGAMI VICTORY
- X-BASE SPIDER
- X-BASE WIRED
- ZEN 01
Nenad Opačić
Academic painter, Varaždin,1949
Nenad graduated from the academy of fine arts in Zagreb in 1972, in prof. Raulo
Goldoni`s class. From 1972 to 1975 he was an assistant in the studio of prof. Krsto Hegedušić. Nenad was the head of the Karas gallery of the Croatian artists association in Zagreb from 1976 till 1991. Now he is a freelance artist.
He presented over sixty sole exhibitions and took part in more than a two hundred group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. Apart from his exhibitions featured in his Varaždin gallery, he is also organizing the "atelier meetings"; gatherings and promotions of musicians, poets, philosophers and others from the world of culture.
Designed for Fireart:
- ART ELEPHANT
- ART SCULPTURE
- SCULPTURE I
- SCULPTURE II
- Sculptures
- Paintings
Ivan Mesek
Academic painter and conceptual artist, Varaždin,1970
Ivan entered the Academy of fine arts in Zagreb at 1989. During his studies, he was a part of the International Summer Academy of fine arts in Salzburg (1992 and 1993) in the class of Antonio Dias (1992) and „Fluxus-a practical understanding“ of Dick Higgins (1993). He is an active multi-media driven artist who practices painting, installations, urban interventions, performance art, graphic design and photography. He presented more than 20 individual exhibition and was a part of several dozen group exhibition, and projects throughout Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Great Britain and the USA.
Designed for Fireart:
- diverse pictures
- Crinolina of love
Darko Gorenak
photographer, Varaždin 1966.
From 2011 Darko has his own studio for industrial and advertising photography. He's main point of interests are landscapes, architecture and exhibits, and he is also involved in publishing. Darko was photojournalist in Večernji list from 1983. (from 1987th to 2010 proffesionaly). In the 90' UNICEF hired him asa photographer for UNICEF Croatia. During the wartime in Croatia he took photos on battlefields all over the country (exhibition and photomonography “truth of the time”). As a photojournalist he worked in the Swiss daily newspaper “Der Bund” in Bern.
Designed for Fireart:
- Photographs of Tables
