Accordingly to many visitors at the opening ceremony, Leonarda has discovered them a whole new set of details, that surround them while living, working and walking trough Zagreb.
 

[HRV] Arhitektura Zagreba 19. i 20. stoljeća ističe neoklasicizam i secesiju. Posebice, secesijski eklekticizam koji se očituje kroz elemente egzotičnih umjetnosti Kine, Egipta, keltske i bliskoistočne umjetnosti. U tom silnom dekorativnom repertoaru životinjskih likova koji izlaze iz forme postajući tako simbolom božanskih sila svjetla i tame, dobra i zla.
To su likovi koji od davnina nose svoju mitološku priču. Žive u paralelnom svijetu s nama, u svome neformalnom hijerarhijskom sistemu.
Buđenje zagrebačkog bestijarija nije samo izložbena tematika, jer u dubini ikonografske analize krije se životna snaga, ono što pokreće svijet, a što ljudi nisu znali objasniti riječima.
Svijet formalnog i neformalnog sistema, čiji simboli leže u radovima poznatog litografa M.C. Eschera iz 20. stoljeća, otkrivaju problematiku duboko isprepletenih prostora, koji na kraju otkriva izomofrizam. Njegovo djelo „Fantazmagorični bestijarij“ (iz 1957g.) prikazuje taj dvojni svijet vječnih suprotnosti na površini, i izomorfizam u suštini.
U Beču je ovo prikazano na drugi način. Na ulazu u centar grada ispričana je alegorija o Habsburgovcima. Na pročeljima je prikaz antičkih titana u ekstazi, koji se bore sa čudnim zvijerima. U Rimu, kamo se god okrenuli, oni izranjaju iz svog mitološkog svijeta.

 

[ENG] Architecture in Zagreb from 19. and 20. century accents neo-Classicism and Sezession. Specially, a sezessian eclecticism which expresses itself through the elements of ancient art of China, Egypt, Celtic and
of Middle East. In all that virtue of decorative repertoire of animal creatures, which exits from
its form and becommes a symbol for divine power of the light and darkness, good and evil.
These creatures from an ancient times carry its mythological storytelling. They live in a parallel world
with us, in its unformal hierarchical system.
Awakening Zagreb's bestiary wasn't only an exhibition theme, because analyzing its iconography deeply,
you can find a hidden life force, and all that what drives the world, which people didn't know how to explain
in its own words.
The world of formal and unformal system where the symbols live in the works of lithograph M.C. Escher
from 20. century, reveals its deep sitted problem of interlaced spaces,
which at the end unveil its isomorphism. His art work "Phantasmagorical beasts" (1957.) shows that
superficial dual world of eternal contraries and isomorphism in its depth.
In Vienna this world is revealing itself different. On entry of the city center the alegory is told
about Habsburg monarhy. The facades depictes antique titans which in their ecstasy are fighting
against these strange beasts. In Rome, wherever you go, they are emerging from mythological world.
 

Bibliography: Hofstadter, Douglas: "Goedel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid": Penguin Books, 1999.