Onaj tko sadi stabla, znajući da nikad neće sjediti u njihovoj sjeni, počeo je shvaćati smisao života.
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has started to understand the meaning of life.
Marco Polo
Onaj tko sadi stabla, znajući da nikad neće sjediti u njihovoj sjeni, počeo je shvaćati smisao života.
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has started to understand the meaning of life.
Marco Polo
O Festivalu / About festival
“Jedini način da razumijemo sadašnjost jest
taj da pokušamo razumijeti prošlost.”
Igor Prižmić
Ravnatelj Marco Polo Art Festivala
Director of Marco Polo Art Festival
“Ovaj festival spoj je kulture, diplomacije i turizma i vrlo osobit promotor Hrvatske”
Nikolina Brnjac
Ministrica turizma i sporta
Minister of Tourism and Sports
“HTZ već je godinama ponosni partner festivala koji njeguje odnose zemalja s Puta svile”
Kristijan Staničić
Direktor Hrvatske turisticke zajednice
Director of Croatian National Tourist Board
“Upravo takav dijalog zalog je našeg budućeg okupljanja licem u lice u Korčuli.”
Frano Matušić
Državni tajnik za političke poslove
Secretary of State for Political Affairs
O Korčuli / About Korčula
Biser Jadrana / Pearl of Adriatic
Korčula
Grad Korčula, smješten na sjeveroistočnom dijelu istoimenog otoka dugog 47 km, zajedno sa svojim naseljima Čarom, Račišćem, Pupnatom i Žrnovom broji oko 5.700 stanovnika. Od Poluotoka Pelješca udaljen je 1270 metara i s njim je izvrsno povezan svakodnevnim trajektnim i katamaranskom linijama.
The town of Korcula, located on the northeastern part of the island of the same name, 47 km long, together with its settlements Čar, Račišće, Pupnat and Žrnovo, it has about 5,700 inhabitants. It is 1270 meters away from the Peljesac Peninsula and is well connected with it by daily ferry and catamaran lines.
Izložba / Exhibition
Toni Franović
Trčeći za svjetlom
Running for the light
Toni Franović was born in Zagreb on April 15th 1964. He’s been painting and drawing since his early childhood, and has been having exhibitions since 1989. After three years of studying medicine at the University of Zagreb he enrolls at Academy of Fine Arts where he gets a degree in 1990. In 1993. he started working on the „Arad Arts Project“ in Arad where he teaches nature painting. Years 1994./1995. he spent at American University on Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington D.C. where he teaches Spirituality of Art. At the end of 1995. he started working as a Junior Assistant at the Academy of Fine Art in Zagreb, where he teaches painting of nude images and nature paintings until 2004.
Tradicija / Tradition
Pokrovitelji / Sponsors
Grad Korčula
Republike Hrvatske
Ministarstvo turizma i sporta
Hrvatska turistička
zajednica
Turistička zajednica Grada Korčule
