It's Always Along the Way Painting

Nikola Zigon was born in Ljubljana, July the 13th, in 1958. In 1991, he graduates from the painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts and obtains his MA. In response to political events and war on the Yugoslav soil, Nikola makes his first exhibition, the Portrait Series of 1992 in the NUBS Gallery in Belgrade. It deals with a symbolic representation of a human being that reflects the tendency to discover the inner, essential being under the mask of an ephemeral, individual person. In 1993, he makes a new exhibition, Insight of the door, at the DKSC Gallery, Belgrade. The working title is the exhibition event, since it is a multimedia project: movement of a ballet group, painted doors, and video installation. Nikola perceives the doors as portals we pass through during our lifetime. The Door of birth, door of childhood, door of youth, in the linear understanding of life, and in the metaphysical one, the door of harmony, door of restlessness, door of misconception. Search for a key that opens its own lock. In 1994, he participates in the theater festival Malo Sterijino Pozorje with his multimedia project, takes part in the Short Film Festival in Belgrade with video installation Death in Venice devoted to the non-participation of his country at the Biennale in Venice due to the international blockade, and in the Arts Show October Salon with the installation of the Door of Birth. In 1995 he has the exhibition of installations and collages Key of our endurance or Calendar of scars in the Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. The installations are dedicated to the Holy Mysteries - stairs, mirrors and new search for a higher sense of existence. In 2000, he goes to Paris and begins painting. It resulted in two exhibitions, at the Galerie International and the Yugoslav Cultural Center in Paris. Abstract “white paintings”. "The creator of these canvases succeeded in removing all the tidbit, the shabby art-poetics and to bring the picture to the very essence, to the whiteness and white patina, through which, as a fine leitmotiv, refined line of drawings is threaded, which shows nothing but seismography of his feelings" writer Momo Kapor. In the period from 2002 to 2017, he becomes an exclusive member of Prom-Galerie, Munich. Again, Nikola is living in Belgrade, where new paintings and exhibitions are being created, New Day Yesterday, Moonlight Mile, Everness.