No Title, 2022/2023
combined media/painting on canvas
200×150 cm
“The painting was created as a series of works with no particular concept, but also as a reaction to the domination of screen, media images. Each element in the painting, the materials and colours, was chosen intentionally, and employed as a part of my, in this cycle intimist, expression, thus confirming my non-interest and immediate artistic relation with the material. After decades of working on the subjects that art has recorded as “history”, losing interest for social life, and without the desire to participate in the society as a commentator of different entropies, I have turned to painting and drawing in the context of pure intimism, thus returning my new paintings to the system of art, re-entering the realm of the unjustly neglected drawing and detail.”
© Cultural Centre of Belgrade, October Salon and the Artist Collection
Mining agreement: III-30-187/11.10.2023.
Inventory No: 187
Photo: Courtesy of the author
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Živko Grozdanić (1957, Vršac, Serbia) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo in 1983. He is a founder of the “Concordia” Centre for Contemporary Culture (1994), as well as of the Youth’s Biennale (1994-2004). Within the “Concordia” Centre he realised a great number of important exhibitions in the context of contemporary art tendencies of the time, including: Sintakse smrti (The Death Syntaxes, 1997), Prestupničke forme (Transgressive Forms, 2001), Slikarstvo ponovo (Painting Again, 2001)… From 2005 to 2011, he was the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in Novi Sad where he realised more than 150 exhibitions, while he was also the commissioner of the Serbian Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale in 2011. In addition to his social and artistic engagement, he has also continuously worked as an artist. He has made a huge number of paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations… He participated in over 200 group exhibitions and had more than 50 solo exhibitions. He received a number of prestigious awards. He lives and works in Vršac.