5/10/2008
Nikola Pesic
Zvono, Belgrade
His new works in stainless steel are seemengly minimalistic objects which generate different secret meaninigs. Human body is one of the key elements in the work of the young Serbian sculptor.
Zvono Gallery has the pleasure to announce the new exhibition of Nikola Pesic, one of the most perspective young Serbian sculptors. His new works in stainless steel are seemengly minimalistic objects which generate different secret meaninigs. Human body is one of the key elements in Pesic’s work. It is presented as something susceptible to injuries (with sharp heart-blades in Forty Holy Martyrs, or Sacrifice), as a form or color which evokes bodily functions, fluids or even microscopic parts (Infusion, The Missing Chromosome, Erythrocite), or as an invitation of the artist to touch the tactile, perfectly polished and lacquered surfaces of his works. As a starting point, Pesic often uses the heritage of symbolic religious art, he transforms it and gives it a comepletely new, sometimes deliberately heretical expression. His sculptures are meditative objects and their purpose is to be the ritual inventory of the imaginary, artist’s personal secret cult or religion, rather than the works of art that require a reception of a wide auddiance.
A special part of the exhibition will be the presentation of the video Fly!, made in collaboration with the Serbian underground artist Metamard. Using the form of a Lo-Fi video, already floating among millions others on MySpace and YouTube, the artists thematise the old Christian motif of The Ressurection of Lasarus in a very personal manner. Since Pesic’s first solo exhibition, which took place in Zvono in 1997, his sculptures have been selected for many important exhibitions in Serbia such as Oktobarski Salon, Biennal of Young Artist in Vrsac and „Selection from the Nineties“ (curated by Jovan Despotovic) at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. He also took part in many exhibitions outside Serbia: Stuttgart, Cologne, Vienna, Moscow, Miami, Bolzano, Skopje.His works are part of numerous private and public collections, such as the ones of Belgrade City Museum, Radix Company Collection Belgrade, and Aidan Gallery Moscow.
Opening: 06 October at 7.30 PM
Zvono
Visnjiceva 5, Dorcol - Belgrade
Free admission