Drasko Boljevic
Website: www.draskoboljevic.com
Exhibitions
Works
He Who Wants to Be Fed
Series: I Live Across the Road from the Future
Drasko Boljevic 1
Copyright: Drasko Boljevic
Date
2021
Dimensions
198 x 168 cm
Material
Acrylic paint, canvas
Description
Born in Zagreb in 1969, Drasko Boljevic is presenting five works from his series I Live across the Road from the Future. His motifs here are not infrequently violent and disturbing, sometimes taken directly from Hieronymus Bosch’s late medieval visions of hell. Like a set of building blocks, the individual elements can be recombined, producing connections between the images. For example, the advance guard of the plague of rats from The Rise of the Ratus is pictured in He Who Wants to Be Fed, and the hovering girl who recalls a scene of an exorcism, but who reminds the artist of the Greek goddess of the night, Nyx, floats through various constellations. One unique feature of Drasko’s works is playing with anamorphotic effects. This challenges the viewers to find the right angle from which the motifs appear to be standing in space as 3-D illusions. The former sculpture student has thus preserved his sense of the spatial even after moving to Melbourne in the early 1990s and dedicating himself to stencil painting.
The Companionship
2021
Acrylic, canvas
180 x 180cm
Nix Levitating Among Hypnos and Acolytes
2021
Acrylic, canvas
198 x 168 cm
The Rise of the Ratus
2021
Acrylic, canvas
152 x 215 cm
Nix Levitating
2021
Acrylic, canvas
152 x 152 cm