Painter Goran Ćetković is satisfied with 2017: "Voices of silence" conquer Belgrade

Until the end of October, in the Club of the National Theater in Belgrade, the performance "Voices of Silence" by the award-winning Montenegrin painter Goran Ćetković, his 24th independent one in a row, will be on view for the local art public. The exhibition of twenty oils on canvas was opened on October 4 by the distinguished Belgrade art critic, Maja Živanović, art historian and TV journalist. In addition to her text, the exhibition catalog also includes a review of Ćetković's work by the well-known Belgrade art critic Dejan Đorić. According to the evaluations of colleagues and critics, Goran once again showed why he is called the painter of human thoughts and the visual anatomist of the soul.

"At the opening itself, there was a large number of people from the world of art, everything was at a high level. This, as well as the previous exhibition in 'Singidunum', was very well covered by the media", Ćetković told "Vijesti" after returning from Belgrade.

In Belgrade in 2017, Ćetković already exhibited in March - "Voices of Silence" were in the ULUPUDS "Singidunum" Gallery, and in July in the "Progres" gallery, as the only Montenegrin painter among 25 whose works were in the international exhibition "Art to science - science to art"' manifestation "Tesla people 2017" sponsored and selected by "Tesla Science Foundation USA". Last month, at the ceremonial opening of the new "Art&Life" gallery in Zurich, he was again the only Montenegrin painter among ten represented authors from all over Europe, with five oils on canvas.

"I am more than satisfied that in 2017 I was able to present my work to the art audience and professional public outside the borders of our country. Last year was special for me - the ULUCG award 'Lubarda, Stijović, Milunović' is something that every Montenegrin artist strives for, I also participated in the Montenegrin Art Salon, I am very proud of all that, but 2017 was the most successful for me in terms of exhibitions activities in general", adds Ćetković.

Of the plans until the end of the year, he has only one - "to settle down in the studio", adding that for 2018 he is preparing an independent exhibition in Montenegro and a stay in the studio of the gallery in Zurich. When asked by "Vijesti" whether his poetics took a turn in 2017, or whether he remained consistent with what he started, Ćetković said that he tries to paint continuously, "therefore, I strive for perfection, if that is possible." .

"With this kind of attitude, you leave no room for criticism. everything can be seen in the pictures, nothing can be hidden there. With my pictures, I want to point out the alienation of today's man, one of the main problems of modern society in which human values ​​are slowly disappearing", says the interlocutor of "Vijesti".

Commenting on the place of painting in the age of electronic media and modern technologies, he stated that he will always "love classical beauty".

"Classical art academies are a pledge for the future. A great example is the Cetinje Academy during the time of Professor Nikola Gvozdenović Gvozd, everything worked perfectly thanks primarily to the standards he set. Painting, i.e. values ​​in fine art, must rest on what has been created for centuries, it cannot be erased with an eraser because of untalented artists. If I didn't have an insight into what Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Goya, Picasso, Dado did... I would consider myself an artistically uneducated person. When art historians see craftsmanship in my work, that really makes me happy," notes Ćetković.

Describing his personal creative process, Ćetković said that his works are primarily created "from the desire to make a good picture".

“I don't think about it too much. My work does not suffer from a concept, where all methodicality ends, well, that's where my painting begins", concluded Ćetković.

Ćetković, born in 1975 in Kolašin, Ćetković has been living and creating in Sutomore for many years, where he is employed at Elementary School "Kekec" as an art teacher. A graduate of painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje in the class of professor Nikola Gvozdenović Gvozd, he is the laureate of the annual prize of the gallery "Spinaker" at the exhibition of students of the final year of FLU, and the prize for painting of ULUCG, "Milunović, Stijović, Lubarda" for the painting "Philosopher" for 2016. chosen by an international jury.