Born in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegowina, 1973

He began to draw and paint since his 16 with Mirsad Begović, professional painter from Mostar, who later became headmaster of Art academy in Sarajevo. He lives in Zagreb where works as a jurnalist.





Rossella Moratto, independent curator and critic of contemporary art, based in Milan, Italy

Transition – From one to the other side – Old bridge Mostar

Painting Igor Zovko is based on a real fact: in this case by the Old Bridge, the symbol of Mostar, which is sad fame when it was destroyed in the war in Bosnia (and recently reconstructed).
Zovko, however, does not want to refer to these painful events or watch the bridge as a metaphor for rebirth in his works, the reality is the starting point for the study of form.
This series of paintings Zovko is relieved of realism and mimesis first works and come up with a personalized and analytic language.
Passing levels, using some kind of decomposing the image, as shown in this series, in which the design with every step more simplified by removing some progressive elements, in order to come the essentials, highlighted a brilliant nenaturalistic, expressionist cromathic which  tends to abstraction. So, ultimately, what we see is no longer a bridge, but the geometric forms of which are based, and sometimes interact in the search for balance. Is it a bridge, as in this case, the nudes and landscapes, it is not important: it is based on research that is moving in a specific area of painting, which returns sedimetnst. It is the image in memory, whose appearance changes, summarizing the experience itself and memories related to what the artist personally experienced.