The exhibition of sculptures "Breath" by Dejan Verig was opened in Dvorani Park, as part of the "New Wave" program.
"A life made of sea and mountains, adventure and endeavors gets a noble visage in Dejan Verig's artistic superstructure. A man who knows nature, lives with it and for it, finds his artistic credo precisely in that nature. He does not imitate it, which is otherwise a basic principle in the Aristotelian concept of art, but by seeing with a secret eye what others do not see, he frees the natural art facts from the accumulation of excesses and with the moves of a virtuoso articulates figures of new meanings, subject to perceptual loading, associations, or simple teaching of beauty 'in itself'. Dejan Verig's sculptures have a strange tactile call, they tempt us to touch them, and this belongs to a paraesthetic phenomenon that psychologists would have something to say about. Maybe the sight is not enough for us, maybe by touch we want to be part of that nature that bewitches Verigo, the nature that is both the starting point and the origin of his art. Dejan Verigo gives nature the breath of art, and this exhibition is born from that gift," said playwright Stevan Koprivica, director of JUK Herceg Fest, which organized the exhibition.
Dejan Verigo is a mountaineer, ecologist, speleologist, lover of the sea, a member of rescue teams, but also an artist who recognizes the beauty in stone and the rest of the wood, which he breathes life into during processing.
"When a person moves on the mountain and in the underground, where there are many different forms, shapes, structures and colors, he always finds something interesting. The most important thing is to recognize what a piece of wood or stone carries inside.
When I bring it home, I let it rest for a while to see what 'could' fit into that structure without me intervening as little as possible. When an idea is born, I shape it into a rough form, which as such must 'age' for another time, and then I start finishing and final form. Then there are no more repairs. Either a sculpture is born or the wood will end up as firewood," explains Verigo.
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