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A print of Othello, 1983, by Boris Bućan.
In this six-sheet silkscreen design for the Croatian National Theatre in Split, Bućan builds on his poster from the same year for Verdi’s opera Nabucco in which he created the form of a single lion from lines inspired by Mesopotamian cuneiform writing. Here, a pair of tigers—one light, the other dark—stand in for Desdemona and Othello in their ill-fated marriage. The slightly wavy lines below the black tiger’s face indicate that they are drinking from a body of water that reflects the surrounding tall grass.
Boris Bućan was a Croatian artist and graphic designer of Ukrainian-Jewish heritage whose long career began during the late 1960s in Zagreb. Not committed to a single style, he continuously developed his artistic practice, often appearing to anticipate art movements that emerged outside what was then the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Measures 15 x 15 inches. Ships rolled.
