The exhibition of paintings and drawings by Miroslav-Mir Šuković, a painter who lives and works in Kolašin and Podgorica, will be opened tomorrow at 21 pm in the Tivat Museum and Gallery.
Art historian Marija Saičić, who will open the exhibition in Tivat, wrote that "in Šuković's work, one question arises that he tries to answer with a brush, that is, with movement and paint: how to actually paint the human soul?".
"He does it with reduced colors, mostly neutral shades, on a black or white and sometimes red background. In some paintings we can see dripping (painting technique in which paint spontaneously drips or pours onto the canvas). By using this technique, which is usually done in red or black in Miro's paintings, it reminds us of the bleeding human soul, giving us a tone of constant suffering. In addition to dripping, the eyes on his figures are also noticeable, which are painted so that a cry erupts from them, and as if they are looking for a hand of salvation in this perverted world. Šuković painted this terrible kind of beauty with a strong movement of the brush, in one breath, a moment of inspiration, without prior preparation, i.e. a sketch. And precisely for this reason, you never know what will be born from his soul at a given moment, and we are not surprised that at one moment the monstrous characters suddenly take on animal forms, leading us all the way to the archaic, animal layers of the soul. His compositions of exceptional strength are not just a celebration of existence, on the contrary, he tries to concretize the unbearable mental pain that destroys modern man, and that is due to thinking about existence, ephemerality, interpersonal relations, the simple-perversion of modern times and society. Looking at Miro's paintings, every observer feels excitement - his works evoke something in everyone; regardless of whether it is joy or suffering in front of Šuković's works, no one remains indifferent", says Marija Saičić's note.
Šuković is a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina. So far, he has exhibited independently in Kolašin, Podgorica, Kotor, Berane, Bijela Polje, Pljevlja, Tivat, as well as in Rijeka and Labin in Croatia, Sarajevo and Belgrade.
He participated in many collective exhibitions. He is the winner of the prize of the Cetinje art salon "Thirteenth of November" in 2015.
The public in Tivat will be able to view Šuković's works until August 16.
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