The Montenegrin artist Miroslav Šuković tells a story about an existential struggle, a man's struggle with himself, but also a story about an unavoidable spiritual heritage through his paintings. His works carry the painful truth about existence, inner demons, about man's suffering in the modern world and society through disharmonious depictions from which incomprehensible truth emerges," said art historian Marija Saičić, opening the exhibition of the painter Miroslav Šuković last night at the Tivat Museum and Gallery.
Šuković was born in 1977 in Bihać, and lives and works in Kolašin and Podgorica. He is a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is a participant in numerous solo and collective exhibitions and in 2015 he won the "Thirteenth of November" prize of the Cetinje Art Salon.
"In Šuković's work, one question arises, which 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 drain paint - a painting technique in which the paint spontaneously drips or pours onto the canvas. The use of that technique, which is usually done with red or black paint in Miro's paintings, reminds us of the human soul that bleeds under the ton of constant suffering," said Saičić. She assessed that Šuković's compositions are of exceptional strength and are not merely a celebration of existence, "but a picture of the mental pain that destroys a modern man when he thinks about existence, interpersonal relationships or deviations of the modern era".
Šuković himself said that man is at the center of his artistic creativity.
"That human psychology, that is, the inner states of man, is something that interests me the most and to which I have been dedicated since the beginning of my creativity. These are works that were created by combining different materials on canvas and paper. I like to experiment while working, to be guided by the material, so I use pastels, pencils, charcoal. So, it's a process that runs its course and we'll see how that story will continue," said the artist from Kolasin, stressing that in painting and creativity in general, he "doesn't like calculations".
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