There is something almost paradoxical in the fact that a sculptor, a person who works with matter, weight and permanence, chooses emotion as his primary theme. Hrvoje Dumančić does not resolve this paradox; rather, he deepens it. Through the body of the horse, a motif to which he has remained faithful from the very beginning, Dumančić builds a bridge between the tangible and the unspeakable, between form and feeling, between the moment and eternity.

In his recent cycle Circle, that bridge takes on a new geometry. The circle here is not merely an artistic choice. It is neither a stylistic exercise nor a formal experiment. For Dumančić, the circle is the fundamental pattern of nature and life. The sun, the planets, the passage of time, even the wind, all gravitate toward the circular form, a form in which there is no hierarchy, no competition, where every point is equally important and every ending is simultaneously a new beginning.