I am an artist from Serbia, but yet again the citizen of the world. My work has been inspired by the quest to understand human nature and all the consequences as products of thinking or lack of it. I am consumed with thoughts about technological progress and human unpreparedness to live with it. Through personal perspective, I am trying to present my own views on certain phenomena which surround us.
My primary area of interest is painting. Even though I majored in sculpture, I express myself through paintings. At the moment, I am in the spheres of photo-realism. Ever since my student days, my paintings have been autobiographical. As time went by, my reference to the surrounding reality intensified and my personal struggle gave way to some new reflections. Each new day brings new experience, so my work transited from puberty to adolescence and it’s slowly beginning to ripe. Mu current interests are human stupidity and ignorance from which it originates.
My role models from the history of art were of importance to me during studies and also some time after. As can be seen from some of my works, these are David Hockney and Francis Bacon, but there are also many more who influenced me in some way.
Once I find a theme, I talk about it through the series of paintings, with normally 10 to 12 paintings within a series. There are two reasons for taking this approach. First, I want to find and set a certain parallel with the conceptual approach to art and the repetition as its mode of expression, while not losing the value of an individual painting as an entity. Second, I want to live through the theme and its evolution through each new painting, since evolution is inevitable as well as the experience gained by creating each of the following paintings.
In my work, I try to achieve critical thinking of the audience and to incite them to perhaps look at things in a different way which, after all, has always been the role of art. My work therefore belongs to those spheres of art that deal more with human psyche and not so much with the idea of art being necessarily beautiful. I believe to be one of many artists in the world who try to draw attention to the fact that life is much more than home, work, car, shopping mall etc.
My primary area of interest is painting. Even though I majored in sculpture, I express myself through paintings. At the moment, I am in the spheres of photo-realism. Ever since my student days, my paintings have been autobiographical. As time went by, my reference to the surrounding reality intensified and my personal struggle gave way to some new reflections. Each new day brings new experience, so my work transited from puberty to adolescence and it’s slowly beginning to ripe. Mu current interests are human stupidity and ignorance from which it originates.
My role models from the history of art were of importance to me during studies and also some time after. As can be seen from some of my works, these are David Hockney and Francis Bacon, but there are also many more who influenced me in some way.
Once I find a theme, I talk about it through the series of paintings, with normally 10 to 12 paintings within a series. There are two reasons for taking this approach. First, I want to find and set a certain parallel with the conceptual approach to art and the repetition as its mode of expression, while not losing the value of an individual painting as an entity. Second, I want to live through the theme and its evolution through each new painting, since evolution is inevitable as well as the experience gained by creating each of the following paintings.
In my work, I try to achieve critical thinking of the audience and to incite them to perhaps look at things in a different way which, after all, has always been the role of art. My work therefore belongs to those spheres of art that deal more with human psyche and not so much with the idea of art being necessarily beautiful. I believe to be one of many artists in the world who try to draw attention to the fact that life is much more than home, work, car, shopping mall etc.