Vladimir Dunjić (1957, Serbia): Works. Part II In Dunjić’s world we find something that has long been buried and forgotten as a human need, something that the modern world of technology denounces as archheresy - namely, idleness. (Here it is symbolised by butterflies). Almost everything here revolves round it. Idleness is that elevated state, a stage in our passage through life, when the endless flow of time is sometimes interrupted by a sudden flash of man’s imagination which, in turn, invests idleness with virtue. The same lavish idleness (an echo of the past days) is also to be found in the pictures of Baltus, a painter akin to Dunjić, but not well-known in this country. However, Baltus’s idleness can explode with a fierce emotion, passion, a dangerous secret thought, a strong spiritual spasm or a small maelstrom, while Dunjić’s idleness is a kind of game which may lead to the discovery of some treasure that no eyes have seen yet. In the same way that poetry is born of poetry, so too is a painting born of other paintings. Dunjić chooses his spiritual teachers from not only amongst the painters (the members of Mediala and Baltus) but also from writers (Kish, Borhes, Nabokov) and other artists. Baltus’ doctrine is of a soft approach to painting and he says that the art of painting exists only in metaphysical searches and is the art of patience and love for the craft. Both Šejka and Baltus said that painting is a form of performing one’s devotions, that praying and painting are as one. Dunjić, bears the legacy of his predecessors with his sacred approach to his art. He emerged from the empty shroud with a deep respect and humbleness and learned through his paintings that he had been given this gift by his creator.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:28:29 +0000
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