“Urban Records,” an exhibition of paintings by Stojan Milanov, Singidunum Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Artist Stojan Milanov will hold an exhibition from July 28 to August 14, 2009 in Belgrade. The artist will present several dozen paintings in the oil on canvas technique. Along with the exhibition inside the gallery, Milanov will set up a stand and canvas in front, where he will paint and urge passers-by to paint something themselves.
Paintings from the artist’s most recent collection “Urban Records” will be presented at the exhibition, which you can also see exclusively in our online gallery. In talks with the artist, we learned something more about his inspiration and motivation in this series of paintings.
In the paintings that feature a female figure, there is an interesting contrast shown between the greys of the everyday city life – city sights, buildings, trams, cars, and the appearances of fine, airy and ethereal ladies that come from nowhere – from another world – but they are somehow found in the midst of this everyday greyness. Through these paintings, the artist shows that in the everyday greyness there are moments of light, and they radiate with positive energy through these beautiful women.
In other paintings from this collection – mostly of regular city scenes showing street cleaners, pedestrians and drifters – the artist is able to turn a seemingly trivial motif into an artistically rich scene by using colours and composition to get the maximum effect out of these scenes.
Milanov’s work, which is based in realism, is created through abstract deposits of colour, rough brush and palette strokes, and an analysis of parts of the painting that can be turned into abstraction on their own. In these works, completed in one effort without much strain, we are witnesses to spontaneity, intuitiveness, internal force, and exceptional technique. The paintings breathe not only talent but talent within talent.
There is much to be said about the techniques and paintings of this artist, but we leave it to you, the appreciators of art, to finish the story while enjoying these beautiful pieces of art.
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