Solo exhibition of Vladimir Vlad Iličković opened

In the gallery "Velimir A. Leković" the eighth independent exhibition of paintings by Bar artist Vladimir Vlado Iličković (64) was opened last night. Opening the exhibition, the distinguished Bar and Montenegrin painter Muharem Muratović said that many years had passed since a group of ten young men from Bar gathered at the House of Culture and dreamed of "making something" there.

- As it always happens, our actions and words are sometimes not heard or noticed by people who should hear them, but we fought. They say that the sweetest smile is when a dream comes true, no matter how many years we spent to achieve it, and Vlado finally showed beautifully with this that that time was not wasted, but that it was very fruitful and serious. Vlado returned to the olive tree, a tree that is the universe and a symbol of human life and the union of pain, blood, beauty and health. The olive tree is sacred to everyone, and Vlado showed it with this work, which will be another incentive for him to continue and continue to make us happy like this," said Muratović.

In front of numerous friends and admirers of Iličković's work, prof. Mr. Neđeljko Đurović welcomed everyone to "Vlad's Garden of Gethsemane". Emphasizing that the works exhibited in the techniques of oil and acrylic on canvas, ink on paper, pastels... "a new encounter with a very well-known and established creator", Đurović stated that the artistic creation and indisputable talent "were accompanied by the necessary inner restlessness and expressed perfectionism ” were always characteristics of Iličković in his "inexhaustible varieties of the biblical olive tree".

"From the shower and the pencil and its dot hyperrealism, which Ilija Šoškić called exclusively Vlad's hyperrealism, the mythological character of the ancient olive trees of the marsh in this cycle took on a new form, form and content. And indeed, these amphoras of the spirit, as experienced by Milun Lutovac, on these drawings have their own inner wisdom and defiance, while around them the vastness and distant horizon dominate as signs of eternity. In the macro plan, we recognize the outlines of human destinies, because Vlado sees a man in each of these Mediterranean plants, but now, probably also because of his trials and sufferings in life , cracks and wear that defy time and daily harsh existence. This anthroformism, which with these colors and in certain paintings has a warning effect, confirms that the creator not only observed, worked around it and always drew anew, but that he learned from the olive and recognized in it the signs of the times that she had memorized. Both the strength of the leafy tree and its cracked furrowed gut, which is the most abundant tonight, have significance for both the expert connoisseur of art and the layman. "There will be no one indifferent to the images displayed tonight," Đurović pointed out.

According to his words, a careful observer of this cycle will notice the experience of the conscious and subconscious in the details "which Vlado, as a faithful devotee of symbolic calligraphy, expressed very meticulously".

"The former basic black and white contrast from Vlad's beginnings is now colorfully dispersed in strong acrylic colors and best illustrates the story of a changing artistic identity which, although faithful to its phytonymic motif and its ancient theme, has a new expression and the need to, with the stroke of a brush, he creates more, admonishes, reminds and researches anew. Vlad does not lack strength, imagination and desire, from life, at least that's what he says with these pictures, he just wants more time spent in front of the easel," concluded Đurović.