Location: Naval Heritage Collection Museum, Porto Montenegro
Date: 02,07 to 24. 07. 2018
Nenad Milovanovic belongs to the younger generation of sculptors and he caught the attention of the public with his very first solo exhibition back in 2015. The creative potential and energy that accompany his artistic personality can be seen in his work that shows consistent research and questions the artistic issues in the domain of the cognitive-observational world. This young creator has expressed his role as a sculptor in powerful sculptural forms that transmit his view of a man’s living and ontological being transposed into animalistic visions.
The latest series of sculptures “Sink or Swim” sublimates the artist’s experience of man and fish, which is synthesized in a nucleus of clearly defined forms. The fish is the main motive of this exhibition and it connects with the previous body of work that had the bird as the main point of interest. This thematic angle is the cause of sculptural achievements in which each new work reveals a part of a human character and emotions. In these works are embroidered childhood memories, author’s wide intellectual views, dreams and reality… Hemingway’s “The old man and the sea” and Domanic’s “Leader” and other literary content have their own onomatopoeia that give his art a personal and emotional character.
By cleverly using metal as a primary material, Milovanovic has materialized his creative ideas with great skill and gave his sculptures not only life, but also a certain inner expression that connects with plastic into a coherent organic whole. The curved or cut shapes, accentuated linearism, furious/ frightened look or physical absence of the sense of sight are some of the features of these fish like sculptures, but they also describe both man and his position in a modern society that is clearly infused in the very title of this series of works. All these characteristics make these works believable because they transmit the emotions and states of the soul that Nenad Milovanovic achieves in his visual universe, they were created as an act of honestly giving all of himself to his work.
Art historian and curator of ULUS gallery Olivera Vukoti
