Location: Serbia
My paintings are a response to my life experiences and my relationship with reality. My poetics dwell on the darker side of existence—both personal and universal. Though they may lie on the other side of conventional beauty, I aim to express horror, fear, and the tragic dimensions of human life.
The solitary figure in space is my formal means of defining human existence as an experiential relation to time and place—an expression of alienation. The scream, as a special cycle, springs from inner unrest and represents a kind of human denudation: stripped down to the raw color of flesh. This denudation is metaphorical rather than literal.
Whether conscious of it or not, every scream is a call for help—an affirmation of our primordial social nature and the essential need to reach for one another.
My attention has been diverted to the painting's essence, viewed through specific prism of personal sensibility, in search for a painting serving as a personal reflection. Emotion, a full constitutional element of a painting, is a possible dominance in proved existence of traditional painting in the totalitarian era of digital media and the marginalization of humans and their individuality.
No matter how my paintings are my subjective opinion and personal poetry, I reserve enough space for a spectator and his personal combinatorics, provoked by my visual expression.
“Red Female nude, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 90cm”
I perceive a woman as a symbolof not only Divine beauty and sensuality but also the greatest torments and individual sufferings of a human being in general. The associative representation of the crucifix seemed suitable for the embodiment of my meaning and artistic idea.
I have already pointed to the meaning idea, and the artistic idea sought power, drama, dynamics, as it were, Baroque excitement. The slanting grey masses are an associative representation of architecture as a symbol of urban, contemporary, point to the civilization issue of anxiety and alienation. The red colour of the body was not accidentally chosen. I wanted to bare the human figure as much as possible, not only to make it naked, to the skin but also to go beyond, conditionally speaking, under the skin and to show the body as a flesh.
The lonely figure in space is my formal expression of defining human existence as an experiential relationship to space and time, an expression of alienation. By placing the figure in darkness, it faces its source from which it came and into which it will inevitably return. The cruelty of my images reflects a cruel reality. It embodies my understanding of the truth that I want to confront the observer with.
“Scream, variant VI, acrylic on cardboard, 40 x 28 cm”
“Scream, variant II, acrylic on cardboard, 100 x 70 cm.”
“Scream, variant I, acrylic on cardboard, 100 x 70 cm.”
“Exit”
“Escalators”
“Space”
“Man and umbrella”
“Exit, variant II”
“The staircase”
