The exhibition of Aldemar Ibrahimović in the Modern Gallery in Podgorica is a true celebration of art, the curator of the Museum and Gallery of Podgorica, Selma Đečević, MSc, noted in the text "Paintings of Aldemar Ibrahimović - Architecture of the United Times", which introduces the catalog for the exhibition. The exhibition, which is open until September 30, consists of a collection of works by the author during the last decade of his creativity, and more than 50 works made in the oil on canvas technique are presented.
"It is worth noting that a selection of works painted in the last decade was made for this occasion. They show the peculiarity of fine art performances that foreshadow the forgotten expanses of the artist's imagination. That reduced urban landscape with pastoral overtones is a sort of immediate vertical model through which the artist shows the world split in time," notes Đečević.
Ibrahimović honestly tells "Vijesti" that many of the works exhibited in the Modern Gallery were created by chance, primarily because he is always looking for himself as an artist, never stops discovering new spaces and painting new reliefs...
"I have a lot of things here that I think were created by accident. I came to one experience and that is the moment when you just have to work. The direction is always uncertain, and we artists are always looking for each other, I'm still looking for myself. This is my path, there is no other way in this world of mine, that is, ours, in the world of fine artists. You have to work and something will be born, because simply today that particular approach to the motive is not interesting, today's technology has overcome all that. I would notice that the former objective approach, the approach to objective reality is a long time ago, so now there is a subjective approach, and some will say that it is me," answers Ibrahimović.
His paintings seem to radiate poetry, as if there is a verse in every stroke of the brush, so the emotion it evokes and the feelings it gives rise to are much stronger than the colors on the canvas. Each of the paintings radiates a warm yellow color that casts a glare like a street lamp. Ibrahimović says that it does not happen on purpose, it is just him.
"I sometimes try to change my color, sometimes I don't, but somehow yellow, white always come to the center... I don't know, but that's me," he says, and then adds that throughout his creative career, he strived for changes and style and expression and conquering new heights. Maybe right now, he says, is the time to move on to something else...
"I got a little fed up, so I'm looking for some new paths in art and I think it's figuration, and figuration has always interested me. I was good at it at the academy as well... It is not clear to me when someone creates something similar for fifty years, when every work is similar to him, with the same motives. That is not clear to me. I want to be satisfied while working, I want it to be interesting while I'm working, and not to repeat ideas and motives because some similar works have been awarded to me. Instead of getting attached to some works that brought me some awards, I immediately started in another direction because it meant the end of a cycle that I could no longer do. Well, that's how I got to the stage with fewer shadows, to urban spots, frantic faces, people wandering around these areas... That's actually exactly what I want to say... We built markets, we built houses, but not we know what we're going to do... That's what I try to say with my works", Ibrahimović tells "Vijesti" and adds that when art critics or curators ask questions, he often doesn't understand how they saw and felt something in his works .
“It's subjective. The critic's approach is subjective. I'm often surprised that someone saw something in my pictures that I didn't even notice. It's like when we look at a cup of coffee, it's the same with pictures," he says jokingly.
Aldemar Ibrahimović was born in 1962 in Rožaje. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo in 1986, and post-graduate studies in Cetinje in 2013. He is a member of ULUCG and SULU. Since 2011, he has been engaged as a visiting professor at the State University in Novi Pazar. He exhibited at numerous independent exhibitions in the country and abroad. He is the winner of several prestigious awards in the field of art.
A valuable artistic order can be made with silence and modesty
Selma Đečević pointed out that the art of Aldemar Ibrahimović "characterizes the spirit of timelessness, distance from reality, distant reminiscences, which the artist achieves by using a specific artistic language."
"Ibrahimović is one of those artists who testify that silence and modesty can be used to create a valuable artistic order. From those who restore our faith in the sources of art. His originality is not only in his dedication to his homeland and themes, but also in his attitude towards the world. Past and present. And Ibrahimović's opus is precisely the merging of colors and thoughts, the merging of time. Finally, the artist, whose entire creative oeuvre is tied to his homeland, shows us with his work how to revive the spaces of time through which the stone-sleeping world floats. You shouldn't ask for more from art", Đečević concluded in her text.
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