• 0 Knjige - 0,00 
    • Košarica je prazna.

Autor/ica

Agata Lučić

Agata Lučić (1995) is an illustrator/visual artist living in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2020 she graduated from the Graphic Arts Department at Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. In addition to illustrating various texts, she finds inspiration for artistic expression in her surroundings. She actively exhibits in Croatia and abroad. She painted several murals in Croatia ("Museum for Everyone" - Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; projects organized by Melinda Šefčić and Croatian Association of Artists, etc.).

She has three published picturebooks for Mala zvona: Zaboravljene stvari (The Forgotten Things); Ogledalo bez mana (The Flawless Mirror) and Tri putnika u zemlju Nut (Three Travellers in the Land of Nut) written by Dorta Jagić. For the picturebook Ogledalo bez mana she won a BolognaRagazzi Award – special mention in the non-fiction category and special mention on 11th Supertoon.  Ogledalo bez mana is also in the selection of 18 books on the competition Hrvatska lijepa knjiga 2022 (Croatian beautiful book).

Ostali naslovi autora/ice

Art is Smart

18,00 

At the heart of the new picture book by the award-winning illustrator Agata Lučić is art itself, in all its joyful forms. On the pages of this book, intended for children, but which will delight and cheer up adults as well, we will hear numerous and varied answers to the questions of what art can do, where it can be found, how we can most easily encounter it. ‘Art is Smart’ is a praise of art itself, but also a short lesson for the young ones about different kinds of artistic activity and their equal importance. The picture book is abundantly and dynamically illustrated in the author’s recognizable style, and the text flows in an unstilted poetic style, with cheerful rhymes that arouse curiosity in the reader and draw her on to an optimistic close.

Forgotten Things

17,00 

In her second artist’s book, Agata Lučić takes readers of all generations to a flea market – an almost monochromatic blue world filled with various objects. Each thing there carries traces of time spent in someone’s life, traces of somebody’s past. The young visual artist evokes fragments of life that “forgotten things” shared with their humans in her original, very recognizable style, gradually creating a warm atmosphere – with bits of magic. The last double-page holds a surprise: as the objects manage to attract new owners and are being accepted along with their stories, various colors enter the world of the picture book. It is no longer a space of memories; it becomes a living space. “Forgotten Things” are both nostalgic and cheerful, they urge the reader to open up to hidden histories of unknown people and certain values accessible only to a watchful eye; they invite both children and adults to dream, offering a world of peculiar visual pleasure. 

We acquire and discard things too easily, warns the author of this gentle and playful picture book; but even when they have already been discarded, left to their fate on the stands of some open-air “mini market”, they can be looked at, singled out from the crowd, appropriated, restored, and brought back to life.

 

Book #4909