To a local audience, Goran Tomcic’s upcoming show, Heart Strings at Dimensions Variable, seems made with Miami in mind; his choice of materials for the pieces are hanger wire, Mylar sequins, and fishing line. But the truth is that he’s chosen these for their reflective properties, and not for the superficial glitz of this town or the romanticized vapidity of media interpretation. “The choice of materials I am interested in, are reflective and therefore questions space and the movement in that space,” he explains. The works that will be exhibited have taken Tomcic close to eight months of assembly with “uncountable” hours logged.
Goran Tomcic is no stranger to South Florida. From 1997 through 1999, he served as the director of Wolfson Galleries at Miami Dade College and that, coupled with his global makeup, makes him a perfect cosmopolite in Miami. Growing up on Hvar Island in the Split-Dalmatia County of present day Croatia on the Adriatic coast, Tomcic spent his youth surrounded by the Greco-Roman heritage of the region. A self-described Mediterranean, he marries the freedom and comfort of the sea with his tenures in urban sprawls.
