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The homeless person—sleeping in the street, with a cardboard as his mattress and a newspaper as his cover, still holding on to a half-empty bottle in his hand—is one of the few blockhead sculptures I have done in this horizontal format. It is a portrait of someone in slumber, oblivious about the world around, but also in a way a mirror for the society that is also oblivious about such people and their suffering, although partly responsible for their misfortune and position. My “Blockheads” cycle is inspired by the urban environment and the visual style of street-art culture. It comprises painted wooden-beam sculptures and large-format acrylic paintings. Like street-art totems, the Blockhead sculptures embody everyday characters you meet in the city and in contemporary popular culture. The particular blend of two-dimensional drawings on a three-dimensional surface makes them quite alive and recognizable, each of them fulfilling their individual block of space in their own “mentally limited” way. These are all images, scenes, and characters from our everyday city lives and our contemporary popular culture, by which I attempt to portray the current society we are living in—analogously to the paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hieronymus Bosch, or James Ensor, who all played with the grotesque, thus offering their critical commentary about the life and people of their own time. My portraits are stylistically very different, of course, since I was brought up with video games, comic books, animation, graffiti, and street art.
2023
Wood on Wood
One-of-a-kind Artwork
26.8 W x 4.5 H x 3.6 D in
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Multi-media artist, working both in traditional and contemporary fine art forms: printmaking, drawing, painting, sculpture, design, photography, video, animation, net & interactive art, graffiti art, and electronic music. Although first and foremost he considers himself a graphic artist, Andrej Marjanovic works a lot in both multimedia and in many classic arts techniques (painting, sculpture, and drawing). But it is less known that he was also a graffiti artist during the emerging Skopje graffiti culture of the 1990s, working under many pseudonyms (НДРЈ/NDRJ, ЧКЉ Кру/ CHKLJ Crew, Право гето/Real ghetto). Since about the same time, he was part of the birth of the Macedonian underground electronic music scene under various pseudonyms (NDRJ, Partybreaking Inc., Кисела куќа/Acid House), using sampling as his main constructive technique. From 2000 onwards, he works professionally in branding, graphic design, web design, photography, video production, audio production, and animation. With regard to technique, Andrej Marjanovic is always interested in experimentation, innovation, and intermediality. In his interartistic and intermedia fine art explorations, he is often inspired by music, comic books, street art, computer art, video art, video games, and film. Whatever the technique, medium, or application, his art stylistically gravitates toward the minimalist, symbolic, and abstract, always grounded on deeply deliberated concepts, a critical approach, autoreferentiality, and humor. He was born and raised in Skopje, but from 2014 he lives in the Prespa area.
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