This is Aleksandar Srnec

Aleksandar Srnec (30 July 1924 – 27 March 2010) was a Croatian artist. He is mainly known for his futuristic designs and kinetic and lumino kinetic art.

Srnec was one of the founding members of the Exat 51 work whose nimble members in the midst of 1950 and 1956 were the architects Vjenceslav Richter, Bernardo Bernardi, Zdravko Bregovac, Božidar Rašica and Vladimir Zaharović and the painters Vlado Kristl and Ivan Picelj. He made abstract art based upon the use of geometric shapes. In 1953, he meant his first kinetic objects entitled, Space Modulator, while in 1956, he began his experiments with touching sculptures and reliefs.

In the 1960s, Srnec participated in the New Tendencies exhibitions. From 1962, he became vigorous with luminal-kinetic experiments, for example Luminoplastic I, and from 1968, he began making “ambience art”. His doing entitled Luminoplastic Ambience, exhibited in 1967, in Gallery SC, (Student Centre Gallery) in Zagreb, was the first luminal-kinetic object/ambience in Croatian art. He collaborated following the Zagreb School of Animated Films and made sets for three puppet films. He after that made the thriving film A Man and His Shadow together considering Dragutin Vunak.

In the epoch from 1974 to 1977, he returned to making kinetic sculptures in extremely polished metals. He after that began experimenting past light. He exhibited at many shows in Croatia and abroad: Zagreb (1953, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1992), Belgrade (1953, 1956, 1968, 1971), Banja Luka (1972), Paris (1959), London (1960, 1961) and Mannheim (1971). His retrospective exhibition Present Absence was held in two cities: at the Gallery of Old and Contemporary Masters and at Varteks services in Varaždin, (2008) and at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, (2010). He received many awards, including the Vladimir Nazor Award for liveliness achievement (1999) and the Croatian Association of Artists Life Achievement Award (2008).