Stribog, 2019

Zoran Crncevic  

Artist Statement:

Zoran's work deals with the message and code that live in an arena where ideas are let to transcend cognitive distance between people. It does not have a subject, object, or justification. It does not depict, symbolize or represent. There is no obvious key to reading his art. The work comes as an aesthetic experience, created in a state of mind where concepts of space and time become suspended. 
Zoran started transforming found objects, furniture, wooden boxes, and newspapers for his artwork in 2002, while he was studying at the University of the Arts London. In his public installations and performances, Zoran has long since explored nature of communication within the limits of space and time. In 2011, a friend of his gave him a canvas that another artist used for drying excess oil paint from her brushes. Instead of painting something on it and destroying the original look of the splatter of paint, Zoran rotated the canvas 90 degrees clockwise and hang it on the wall like a finished painting.
In the following months, he painted an Art Deco cabinet in reference to the painting and explored the process as a vehicle of communication. To bypass cognitive biases rooted in human experience and to limit the work to rhythm and code, the paint on the surface does not have a subject, object, or matter. It does not story-tell, symbolize or represents. It is just as it is. Continuous, uninterrupted, three dimensional. It is the process of layering paint and perception of the paint. It is about the message embedded in rhythm and color.

Education:

• 2003 BA(Hons) in Fine Art - Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK.
• 1999 - 2000 Foundation Fine Art, Lambeth College, London.
• 1997 - 1998 Fine Art (Sculpture), Faculty of Arts Pristina, Kosovo, Serbia.
• 1996 - 1997 Sculpture studio Slobodan Dragas, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Awards & Distinctions:

Collections:
• Art Collection of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, UK.
• Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• A number of private collections in the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Ireland, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 

Exhibitions:

2021 – solo show – BETWEEN LINES – Stone Gallery – City Castle, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2012 – group show – A BOOK FOR A DINNER – "Night of the Museums", Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2008 – solo show – Installation In Space - Museum of Modern Art of Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2006 – group show – FASHION SALE – Art Point Gallery, Vienna, Austria.
2006 – group show – KULTURFEST 2006 – Museum of Modern Art of Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2005 – group show – Piece of Air, Krajina Square - central city square, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2005 – solo show – Club 22, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2005 – group show – DE AMICIS, Corso Casale, 134, Torino, Italy.
2004 – solo show – Haycocking (transformation) – Museum of Modern Art of Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 
2003 – solo show – Home, Archgallery, Islington, London, UK. 
2003 – group show – The Cross, Kings Cross Road, London, UK.
2002 – group show – Cannizaro Park, London, UK.
2002 – group show – Old Royal Naval College Greenwich; Trinity College of Music, UK.
 

Professional/Teaching Experience:

Publications:
• Art Reveal Magazine, February 2020.
• ART Habens Art Review, Special Edition, May 2020.
• Into the Void Magazine, October 2019.
• Wotisart Magazine, October 2019.
• kulturkontakt magazine, Vienna, Austria, spring 2014.

Residencies:
• 2006 – 3 months residence, Henkel, Artist in Residence, Vienna, Austria.

Artistic Influences:

Joseph Beuys, Sarah Lucas, and Marina Abramovic. All three of them have a very strong visual presence, but effective communication with the audience dominates their work. I admire them for having honesty and courage to confront their struggles and produce the work that can be seen and understood by others.