Izložba "Oris ideja" rezultat je želje onih koji stvaraju časopis Oris da na jednom mjestu okupe i prikažu skice i likovno zanimljive crteže autora čiji su radovi objavljeni u nekom od brojeva tog časopisa. Povod toj želji je pet godina izlaženja Orisa. Tu su i radovi onih koji su na neki način pridonjeli njegovom nastanku i sudjelovali u njegovom životu, a rad im je u časopisu nije objavljen.

Dio koncepta uređenja časopisa je nastojanje da se što kompleksnije prikaže projekt. Dio toga su i skice iz faze stvaranja projekta. Smatramo da je to važan dio u arhitektonskom stvaralačkom procesu. Izlaganje javnosti svih tih skica na jednom mjestu trebalo bi dati na uvid svu kompleksnost, različitost, slojevitost, pa i ljepotu najkreativnijeg razdoblja rada na projektu.

Skicu smo definirali kao crtež koji nastaje uglavnom u početnim fazama rada na projektu ili kasnije služi za njegovu ad hoc ilustraciju. Baš takve ilustracije, smatramo, likovno odražavaju maksimalan kreativan naboj koji se stvara pri radu na projektu. U toj se situaciji najbolje vidi likovni potencijal autorove ruke i stvaralačkog nerva.

Skica je uz sam sadržaj projekta najočitije umjetničko izražavanje arhitekta. da bi arhitekt prikazao svoju ideju, koristi medij slikarstva (razne tehnike crteža, kolaža, akvarela pa do kompjuterskih renderinga). On to naziva skicama. Skice su prvi prikaz arhitektove ideje. One su u službi ideje i nemaju težnju postati slika za sebe. Kao što skela služi graditelju, skice nemaju potrebu biti zasebno umjetničko djelo.

Možda je ovo jedna od zadnjih izložbi koja još uvijek i to većim dijelom živi sa svojim vremenom, a putem skice orisuje ideju arhitekta. Buduće ovakve izložbe bit će uglavnom retrospektive i prikazi prošlosti.
Oris ideja posvećujemo svim idejama koje nikad nisu doživjele svoju realizaciju, već su ostale kao zaleđena slika u potrazi za svojom dimenzijom.

Andrija Rusan i Ante Nikša Bilić, urednici časopisa Oris

The exhibition "Outline of Ideas" springs from the wish of those who created the journal Oris to put together and show in a single place the sketches and visually interesting drawings of artists whose works have been published in one or other of the issues of Oris. The occasion for the wish was the marking of five years of the publication of Oris. There are also the works of those who in some way or other contributed to its origin and taken part in its life, without their work having been published in the journal.

Part of the concept behind the editing of the journal is the endeavour to show a project as complexly as possible. And a part of this is the sketches from the phase of creating the project. We think that this is an important part in the architectural creative process. Exhibiting all these sketches to the public in a single place should give some idea of all the complexity, diversity, multifacetedness and beauty of the most creative period of work on a project.

We have defined a sketch as a drawing that comes into being mainly in the initial phases of the work on a project, or that later serves for its ad hoc illustration. Just such illustrations, we believe, visually reflect the maximum creative charge created during work on a project. In this situation the visual potential of the author's hand and creative flair is best seen. A sketch, with the actual substance of a project, is the most manifest expression of the architect.

In order to present his idea an architect uses the media of the painting (various techniques ranging from drawings, collages, water colours up to computer renderings). He calls them sketches. Sketches represent the first outline of an architect s idea. They serve the idea and do not aspire after becoming a painting in themselves. The same way the scaffolding serves the builder, so the sketches do not have the need to become a separate work of art.

Perhaps this is one of the last exhibitions that still, in the major part, lives with its own time, and via sketches outlines the idea of the architect. Future such exhibitions will be mainly retrospectives and displays of the past.
We dedicate this "Outline of Ideas" to all those ideas that have never been realised but have remained a frozen image in search for all its dimensions.

Andrija Rusan i Ante Nikša Bilić, editors of the magazine Oris