The exhibition where the audience "has the opportunity to play a beautiful visual game of assembling dots and signposts through the author's thoughts and visions" is open in Igalo in the gallery of the "Dr. Simo Milošević" Institute until June 25. The exhibition presents the young Montenegrin artist, academic graphic artist, painter Aleksandar Radević, and the works are united under the name "Synergy".
"This exhibition presents a complete picture of my work in all artistic fields from the beginning of my art education to independent work in the studio. The exhibition is called 'Synergy' precisely because it combines both painting and graphics and different techniques. I tried to present how I complemented my vision through various materials and expressions. What I did not manage to show in the graphics, I expressed in the drawing, and also what I did not succeed in the graphics and the drawing, I expressed, or rather supplemented, with paint on the canvas", explains the young artist.
The exhibition includes about twenty works of medium format that he did in the technique of oil on canvas, combined graphic and drawing techniques. Radević points out that he uses graphic and painting experience as a prism through which he observes the environment, looking for what makes him human.
"Through relationships with others, I got to know myself, and through emotions and feelings, I got to know others. In my artistic work, I acted like a mirror, therefore I could say that my works represent a kind of fantastic mirror that exaggerates the various nuances of the world observed through the eyes of a child. I am reaching a moment where I see how the shades of my graphic works mix with those of painting, like a washed shower, painting in front of me a picture of the world I know and the one I am only now getting to know", says Radević, claiming that his creativity is paradigmatic for the attitude he expressed.
Given that Radević is an academic graphic artist, and he often incorporates colors and images into his works, he reveals to "Vijesti" that the two approaches are different only in the technique they imply, while they are similar in terms of expression that can be performed in both worlds. . "From my point of view it is good to learn from both worlds. The approach differs only in that in the graphics I express the dark side, dark humor and expel the senselessness and emptiness from myself. In painting, I would say that I try to convey the part that is missing in my graphic approach - the bright and childish side... If I approach graphic expression with analytics and a dose of weight, I approach painting through a game without limits, and then somewhere in the drawing I mix the two so that I said that the drawing is the morning fog that separates daydreams and sleep from daylight and the shadows of the world in which we will be," says Radević.
Through his works, he also expresses his views and opinions, he continues...
"I draw my views through a fairy tale that doesn't have to be light or dark. If I put things allegorically, I would look to myself as if I wandered from desert to desert and took a grain of sand with me from all of them, and now I display those grains of sand on the walls and hand them over to the wind, which is the audience and their imagination. So these works are concave, fantastical mirrors of my attitudes and views of the world in certain periods of my life. They can have a meaning, or they can simply be a reflection of my emotions... It all depends on how someone will read a work," he points out.
Radević is another young Montenegrin artist who has accepted the "365" challenge, which means publishing one work on social networks every 365 days of the year. He accepted the challenge to test himself and his perseverance, he admits to "Vijesti". Aleksandar Radević was born in Podgorica in 1990, where he graduated from the secondary vocational school "Sergije Stanić", after which he entered the Faculty of Fine Arts. He completed his basic and specialist studies in 2013, and graduated on the topic "Mask" in 2015 in Anka Burić's class on the subject "Experimental Graphics".
He concluded the interview for "Vijesti" with the following words:
"Finally, I would like to remind ourselves what a man is 'Respice post te. Hominem te esse memento. Momento mori' Just a moment..."
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