Spiralno putovanje spiralnim plesom

In the late 2013, Boris Demur presented his project Spiral Journey in the Art Pavilion at Zagreb and, through this, promoted the spiral as a theme, starting point and inexhaustible inspiration of his art. Apart being inspired by the spiral as a cumulative and painterly sign, Demur tied his work to the spiral as a principle which generates structure and as a form with iconographic consistency. By introducing variety into the spiral as his sculptural and formal constant, Demur creatively superseded his previous experience as a performance and action artist whose work took place in galleries. The first phase of the project – a spiral gigantomachy of sorts – consisted of the painting of four large spiral compositions (5 x 9 m and 6 x 10 m) performed by Demur in situ in the Art Pavilion in the presence of curious visitors. The second phase took place on 15 December 2013, the 115th anniversary of the foundation of the Art Pavilion, and included the installation of the paintings, the projection of the accompanying videos, the display of photographic documentation and the official opening of the exhibition. This transformed the historical interior of the Art Pavilion into a fulcrum of spiral happenings and presented three main features of Demur’s spiral system: Pollock-style action painting, anthropometry paintings inspired by Yves Klein, and, most of all, the idea that the spiral can create its own Sistine Chapel, that is, a space in which the spiral system is best represented and self-explanator