ZAGREB, July 16 (Hina) - French Ambassador to Croatia, Jean-Jacques Gaillarde, on Friday conferred on Ivan Ladislav Galeta, a Croatian film-maker and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, a French decoration for his
contribution to culture called "Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres".
ZAGREB, July 16 (Hina) - French Ambassador to Croatia, Jean-Jacques
Gaillarde, on Friday conferred on Ivan Ladislav Galeta, a Croatian
film-maker and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, a
French decoration for his contribution to culture called
"Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres". #L#
This decoration is awarded by France's Culture Ministry to people
abroad who take active part in a cultural dialogue with France as
well to those who become famous in arts.
Gaillarde said Galeta was the creator of an original artistic
search. Galeta's work in the field of short and experimental films,
photo exhibitions, installations, drawings, acoustic projects and
other works have received acclaim from critics, galleries,
festivals and foreign academies, the Ambassador added.
Thanks to Galeta, several retrospectives of French films have been
organised in Croatia, and he has become an unavoidable associate of
the French Institute in Zagreb for fifteen years, Gaillarde said.
Thanking for the decoration, Galeta voiced satisfaction with the
success of programmes of presenting French films in his country and
he was glad to have had opportunities to promote Croatia's culture
in France.
In the past 30 years Galeta's works have been presented in Croatia,
France, Germany, Hungary, the United States and Japan. His
experimental movies has been taken by Centre Georges Pompidou in
Paris.
Form 1977 to 1990 he worked the programme of the Multimedia Centre
in the Croatian capital, and in 1993 he established Art Kino where
the audience could watch non-commercial, experimental European
films.
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