Ivan Fijolić was born March 30, 1976 in Zagreb. After finishing the School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts also in Zagreb. He has had solo exhibitions in Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, and participated at many group exhibitions in Italy, Japan, Greece, Croatia. He’s the author of the Bruce Lee monument in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. “Through the medium of sculpture I explore everyday life paraphrasing pop art and its icons, especially pop icons of cinema and comic industry. I’m directly critical towards all unsuccessful imitations of true endeavors to endorse life under the surface of the everyday. I place certain subjects in a different context in order to reveal them from a certain distance and demystify them in the process.”