Montenegrin academic artist Nikola Markovic is presented at the exhibition "Echo of small things" (Echo der kleinen dinge), which opened in the gallery "Subject. Object” in Berlin, Germany.
It is a group exhibition where, together with Marković, the following are presented: George Weiss, Jens Hunger, Andrea Imveh, and it is open for visitors until the third of March.
For decades, Marković has been successfully presenting himself to audiences all over the world, especially in Germany, where he has been working for years to establish a museum of contemporary art dedicated to the youngest age - AMoC or Art Museum of Childhood. His works are dominated by motifs of childhood, and his "Silence of Future Childhood" cycle, which consists of two exhibition units "Untitled Toys" and "Troubled Letters/Journey to the Future", is very successful and notable.
He uses various artistic techniques, mostly those of a sculptural nature where he works in metal and bronze, and there are also drawings, mosaics, assemblages, as well as spatial installations, all most often connected with the theme of dolls, toys and their symbols.
He says of his work that "it is a deeply lived prayer about the truth of man before the stage of his very creation".
"It is about the sufferings of modern human life and the meaning of its relationship to nature, life and the essence of our existence. I deeply believe that it is precisely in childhood that our truth is most visible and most sincere in relation to all these phenomena. That's why I see my art as records that convincingly testify to our earliest memories. As such, they are documents that preserve the forgotten truths and values in which we grew up and which we pushed deep below those established habits of everyday life and work that we are increasingly occupied with. That's why my art is a spontaneous creative game of truth in which there is never a loser, but which invites everyone to discover, preserve and reanimate the essential values that childhood has for each of us," said Marković about his work in one of the interviews with Vijesti.
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