Vlada Mirkovic. Сербский сюрреализм

среда, 12 октября 2016 г.

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О художнике (на английском языке)

Born in 1954 in Gornji Milanovac (Serbia), Vlada Mirkovic was educated in Gornji Milanovac and in Belgrade.
Since 1989, Vlada has been living and working as a freelance artist.
He participated to several group exhibitions, including the Fourth International Biennial of Miniature Arts in Gornji Milanovac where he received the Second Prize for his painting “Genesis,Triptih”. He also exhibited in Paris in the group exhibition “Regard Fantastique” in 2006. He had numerous solo exhibition during his career in Belgrade, Gornji Milanovac, Geneva, Cacak, and Kragujevac. His paintings are collected around the world in Holland, France, Switzerland, Norway, USA, England, and South Africa.
“Like a monk who leaves his monastery to see the world and returns to it, and from its isolation finds the appropriate words to talk about it, Vlada talks, through his paintings, about the world he has seen and his intuition of the world he senses…” Benoit Junod (Geneva - 2005)
“(…) The universe which Vlada leads us into through his paintings is perhaps the one which alice found beyound the looking-glass. It is not fairground world with light relief or escape routes, althrough the sky is always blue there. Architectures are rigorous, and faceless Man confronts his destiny and measures himself to it. Maybue Vlada brings us there to give us the privilege of seeking the truth there in. Again proof of fragility, of our own fragility, is present. The balance and harmony however contradict what might be frightening in this world which obliges us to introspection. The intelligence of artist is to hold our hand and reassure us, as he leads us along his pictural path, much as Dante did before him…”