Darko Jazzie

I was born in Gradina, right next to the Drava River. I live in Opatija, Republic of Croatia.

All my works are made from recycled, industrial and waste materials.
I use: - waste from machine processing (sawdust, dust, wire, metal shavings)
- waste paint (paint residues from painting pipelines or ship's sheets)
- flint sand, steel shot (used to remove rust)
- substrates (boards from discarded wardrobes, various wooden packaging, rusty sheets)
Production: I work with sharpened pieces of wire, wood, fingers, a sponge, a rag, burnt wood… (I don’t use brushes, nor do I use painting tools)
Recognizability: my works are connected with waste ball bearings.


Everything started for me the moment I realized that I could illuminate already created waste with shape, type or color so that You can see it too. I shape the “worthless” and I add the value of time and space. It teaches us what we are and where we will go, but not as the unconscious beings in which is planted worthlessness, rather as the beings who find beauty, which we are surrounded with, in themselves. The beauty teaches us that everything around us is unspeakably beautiful. In this way, I try to teach myself that I, like you, am wonderful and worth...

Ship's engineer

2021 - Restaurant Trattoria Mandrać, Opatija
2022 - Skani center, Rijeka