People of Korčula - Stipe Nobilo

Stipe Nobilo is a well-known artist, who lives and works in Lumbarda on the island of Korčula. He studied in the art department of Split's College of Education and went on to the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, from where he graduated in 1971. Nobilo has had over sixty solo exhibitions in both Croatia and abroad, and has participated in numerous prestigious collective exhibitions. His works can be found in many galleries and private collections around the world.

As in Françoise Sagan's novels, there is but a single season in Stipe Nobilo's paintings: summer. Everything is subject to it. At its centre of Vela Glavica in Lumbarda, he looks out through his skylight and, through colour, he copiously drinks up all of those simultaneous flares, that ceaseless dream of a never-ending summer's day. There is no night in Nobilo's paintings, nor shade, nor people. All we see are the traces of their work… “The artist stands absolute (or as an absolutist) in all of this watching over the necessary immutability of that world, over its apparent sameness in which the demiurgic dance of the permanently default local colours intervenes” says croatian poet Luko Paljetak about Nobilo's work.