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Artist: Blazo Kovacevic
URL: www.blazokovacevic.com
Show: “Maps and Cuts”
About the Show
Gallery: Hurong Lou Gallery
Dates: 11/4/05 - 1/31/06
URL: www.huronglou.com
Artist Statement for “Maps and Cuts”
My artistic endeavor is driven by my fascination with the conflict, in its every aspect and form. My means of exploration itself involves conflict, as I confront contradicting visual elements, incompatible materials, ideas and behavior, art and technology.
Social phenomena compel me. Assuming that every socially engaged activity bears a political label, I acknowledge the political in my work. Preferring the politics of revolution to the politics of evolution, I punctuate my statements about identity and freedom through alchemy of materials and techniques.
This transformation of materials in my work acts as a metaphor for the transformation of society. By giving the materials new names and meanings, emphasizing their identities through contrast to each other, I create a coded language. This language then becomes my vehicle for decoding the unexplainable and bridging the insurmountable. More than mere narrative, this layered process of transmutation and translation, proves highly satisfying for me, and effective.
My imagery spans from mechanical to biomorphic hybrids, hovering over old maps and mechanical drawings (both symbols of industrial progress and political and cultural colonialism).
Currently I am engaged in the process of challenging traditional valuation of artworks on the contemporary art market. Artwork is exposed to criticism, scrutiny, evaluation, but rarely does the public get involved in the actual decision-making with apparent outcome: resizing, detaching, and tearing. Process of partitioning intact work of art, once and for all, changes the role of public, from passive observer into aggressive consumer. Buyer has the option to choose part of the picture, and to purchase it separately from the rest of the painting.
About the Artwork above
“The three Graces”, mixed media on vinyl, 50” x 30”, 2005.
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