The formation of the Post-Cold-War World Order and the spread of Globalization impel artists to take part in the creation of a new world view, as artists did at the time of the French Revolution, or earlier at the time of the Renaissance and the time of the discovery of the New World. At the […]
Difficult times
Sekaric’s Paintings of Despair and Hope
None of the innovations occasioned by the wheel were, however, more lyrical or wondrous than the bicycle, which offers most of us our first real sense of triumph and freedom. Our initial efforts at riding one inevitably fail: we veer to one side of the path or the other, careen into rosebushes or unceremoniously land […]
Art Criticism
Galería Avellaneda Teatro Nacional de Cuba Exhibition of 24 Oil Paintings by Dragan Sekaric Shex. June 3, 2003. Blessed be the one who respects the grief and dignity of those who suffer. Blessed be the one who sublimates the image of anguish and turns it into a work of art. Blessed be the one who […]
Opening remarks, Solo Exhibition, Havana, Cuba
The complex reality of life is reflected in art, and Shex emphatically demonstrates this fact. Born in Gorazde, Bosnia, in 1957, he grew up believing in dreams as happy children do, until the day when he saw that one house could fight against another house. Since then he has lived in Rome, in Montreal and […]