Relief in Space

An installation view of Relief in Space by Dušan Subotić in the Sisak Steelworks Sculpture Park (2018)

• Relief in Space

• Boris Cvjetanović

• University of Split, The Arts Academy
• Boris Cvjetanović

Relief in Space by Dušan Subotić (1981), total. (Photo by Boris Cvjetanović, 24 October 2018 © University of Split, The Arts Academy)

Archival photograph showing the sculpture Relief in Space by Dušan Subotić during fabrication

• Relief in Space

• Sagita Mirjam Sunara

• University of Split, The Arts Academy

Relief in Space by Dušan Subotić (1981), during fabrication. (Photo by Sagita Mirjam Sunara, 2 September 2014 © University of Split, The Arts Academy)

Comment: Author of the archival photograph is unknown. The archival photograph belongs to the machinist Stanko Rožanković, a former employee of the Sisak Steelworks who participated in the fabrication of several sculptures from the Sisak Steelworks Sculpture Park. Dušan Subotić is second from the left, and Stanko Rožanković is third from the left.

Catalogue of the final exhibition of the 1981 Sisak Steelworks Fine Artists Colony

• Sculpture V
• Relief in Space

• Metallurgical Combine of the Sisak Iron and Steel Works

• Unknown

Krnjaić, Vlado, ed. 1981. XI Kolonija: izložba radova nastalih u XI Koloniji likovnih umjetnika 'Željezare Sisak': Sisak predvorje kina 'Željezara' Sisak 1981. Sisak: OSIZ u oblasti kulture 'Željezara Sisak'. Courtesy of Vlatko Čakširan (Sisak Municipal Museum).

Comment: Black-and-white photographs of Milivoje Babović's Sculpture V, and Dušan Subotić's Relief in Space (upper part of the sculpture). Short biographies of the two artists, and the list of artworks they produced in the Sisak Steelworks Artists Colony.

An old newspaper article mentioning Dušan Subotić's and Milivoje Babović's work in the Sisak Steelworks Artists Colony

• Sculpture V
• Relief in Space

• Vjesnik Željezare

• Vjesnik Željezare

P., P. 1981. "Novi doživljaji u crnometalurškom poslu." Vjesnik Željezare, 10 July, p. 10. (Newspaper courtesy of Đuro Tadić. Digitized by the University of Split Library.)

Comment: The article contains an image of Dušan Subotić and a steelworker during the fabrication of the sculpture Relief in Space. Another image shows Milivoje Babović with the sculpture Composition, which has not been preserved.

An old newspaper article mentioning Dušan Subotić's and Milivoje Babović's participation in the final exhibition of the 1981 Sisak Steelworks Artists Colony

• Sculpture V
• Relief in Space

• Vjesnik Željezare

• Vjesnik Željezare

Anonymous. 1981. "Izložba Kolonije." Vjesnik Željezare, 25 December, p. 20. (Newspaper courtesy of Đuro Tadić. Digitized by the University of Split Library.)

Comment: The article contains the names of the participants of the 1981 Sisak Steelworks Artist Colony.

An old newspaper article mentioning Dušan Subotić's and Milivoje Babović's participation in the final exhibition of the 1981 Sisak Steelworks Artists Colony

• Sculpture V
• Relief in Space

• Vjesnik Željezare

• Vjesnik Željezare

M., Z. 1982. "Potrebno unošenje promjena." Vjesnik Željezare, 15 January, p. 9. (Newspaper courtesy of Đuro Tadić. Digitized by the University of Split Library.)

Comment: The article contains the names of the participants of the 1981 Sisak Steelworks Artist Colony, and information about the number of artworks they produced. Dušan Subotić's lost sculpture Composition can be seen in two images taken at the exhibition.

Sisak Steelworks Sculpture Park: Description of the samples of corrosion products and paint collected in 2019

• Seagull's Wing
• The Work Process
• Sculpture V
• Object I
• Form
• Our Life
• In Memory of George of Dalmatia
• Riderless
• Dark Visions I
• Relief in Space
• Dark Visions II
• Antipodes
• Title unknown
• Puzzle Column
• Man and Woman
• Rhythms II
• Random Form With a Thesis
• Prayer Book
• Wall
• City '85
• Door
• Form I
• Orator
• High Voltage
• Zgurić and Family
• Composition I, Composition II
• Butterfly
• Imaginary Machine
• Man-Machine
• Bull's Head
• Flower
• Bird
• Incandescent Planet
• Ornament
• Wayside Monument

• Neven Peko
• Sagita Mirjam Sunara

• University of Split, The Arts Academy
• Sisak Municipal Museum

Peko, Neven; Sunara, Sagita Mirjam. July 2019. "Sisak Steelworks Sculpture Park, Croatia: Description of the samples delivered to METRIS for analysis." Internal CAPuS report: unpublished. Sisak Municipal Museum, University of Split.

Condition reporting form for the sculpture Relief in Space by Dušan Subotić, from 2016

• Relief in Space

• Sagita Mirjam Sunara

• University of Split, The Arts Academy

Sunara, Sagita Mirjam. 2016. "Dokumentacijski obrazac za skulpturu Dušana Subotića Reljef u prostoru (1981.) iz Parka skulptura Željezare Sisak." Unpublished report. University of Split, The Arts Academy, Conservation-Restoration Department.

Comment: The artwork is partially preserved. The condition reporting form includes general information about the artwork (i.e. about the sculpture's base), information about the technique of its making and the degradation processes observed. Three conservation-restoration students participated in data collection: Nikolina Drlje, Mateo Curić and Jelena Hudinčec (listed in alphabetical order by surname). The information about the materials and techniques used in the fabrication of the Dušan Subotić sculpture were collected from the welder Abaz Begić, a former employee of the Sisak Steelworks who participated in the fabrication of several sculptures from the Sisak Steelworks Sculpture Park.

Condition report for the sculpture Relief in Space by Dušan Subotić, from 2019

• Relief in Space

• Sagita Mirjam Sunara

• University of Split, The Arts Academy

Sunara, Sagita Mirjam. 2019. "Condition report for the sculpture Relief in Space by Dušan Subotić (1981) from the Sisak Steelworks Sculpture Park." Unpublished report. University of Split, The Arts Academy, Conservation-Restoration Department.

Photo-documentation of the maintenance procedures carried out in 2013 on the sculpture Relief in Space by Dušan Subotić

• Relief in Space

• Sagita Mirjam Sunara

• University of Split, The Arts Academy

Photos (left to right):

[1] Relief in Space by Dušan Subotić (1981), trimming of the grass around the cement plinth. (Photo by Sagita Mirjam Sunara, 24 September 2013 © University of Split, The Arts Academy)

[2] Relief in Space by Dušan Subotić (1981), pre-treatment condition. (Photo by Sagita Mirjam Sunara, 24 September 2013 © University of Split, The Arts Academy)

[3] Relief in Space by Dušan Subotić (1981), pre-treatment condition, top of the metal base. (Photo by Sagita Mirjam Sunara, 24 September 2013 © University of Split, The Arts Academy)

[4] Relief in Space by Dušan Subotić (1981), removal of dirt from the holes in the bottom part of the metal base. (Photo by Sagita Mirjam Sunara, 24 September 2013 © University of Split, The Arts Academy)

[5] Relief in Space by Dušan Subotić (1981), an element of the missing part of the sculpture found in its vicitinity. (Photo by Sagita Mirjam Sunara, 24 September 2013 © University of Split, The Arts Academy)

[6] Relief in Space by Dušan Subotić (1981), student Benedikta Vilenica holding the part of the sculpture that she found. (Photo by Sagita Mirjam Sunara, 24 September 2013 © University of Split, The Arts Academy)

Maintenance of the sculptures from the Sisak Steelworks Sculpture Park in 2013

• Symmetry
• Seagull's Wing
• The Work Process
• Sculpture V
• Object I
• Form
• Our Life
• In Memory of George of Dalmatia
• Riderless
• Object II
• Dark Visions I
• Relief in Space
• Flower
• Dark Visions II
• Antipodes
• Title unknown
• Puzzle Column
• Man and Woman
• Rhythms II
• Random Form With a Thesis
• Prayer Book
• Wall
• City '85
• Door
• Form I
• Orator
• High Voltage
• Zgurić and Family
• Composition I, Composition II
• Butterfly
• Imaginary Machine
• Man-Machine
• Bull's Head
• Flower
• Bird
• Incandescent Planet
• Ornament
• Wayside Monument

• Sagita Mirjam Sunara
• Valentina Ljubić Tobisch

• University of Split, The Arts Academy

Ljubić Tobisch, Valentina; Sunara, Sagita Mirjam. 2013. "Izvješće o provođenju mjera preventivne zaštite na javnim skulpturama nastalim u sklopu Kolonije likovnih umjetnika Željezare Sisak." Unpublished report. University of Split, The Arts Academy, Conservation-Restoration Department.