Dragan Jovanović

Painting of Dragan Jovanovic (1964), which separated from the magisterial course of his former creative work, and which in the last three years has been increased in number and various topics, demands a serious critical evaluation. Owing to his two-decade long occupation with icon-painting, not deviating from the traditional medium where he is perfect, Jovanovic goes into a venture to create a different, less canonical vision of the world based on morals and experience he has gained, but a vision that the more it suits his temperament, the more it is full of genuine pathos and meditation.

Instead of hieratic and archetypal forms with which the icon presents something lying beyond, God's over-wisdom, a comforting truth about the end of all pains, in front of us there is a lyrically spread space, filled with strange happenings: removals and migrations, finished and unfinished chess matches, strange travelers who wander around celestial and cosmic wide space, spider-like drawing artists and very short pencils, toys and insects. Having been set in a special scenography, in front of the heaven's stage whose windows open into the heaven beyond the heaven, brought together by an endless journey, departure and meetings, these motifs rep...

FLU Belgrade

Solo exhibitions

2006. “Drawing to icon”, Gallery of the National Museum, Cacak
2011. Exhibition of icons, Full Gallery of Art, Cacak
2013. ”Metaphysics of joy” , exhibition of paintings, Art Gallery of the Cultural Centre, Cacak
2013, ” Metaphysics of joy'', exhibition of paintings, Grocka Cultural Centre, Belgrade
2014.'' Ichigo Imaginarium'', Gallery Trag, Belgrade
2014.'' Ichigo Imaginarium” , Gallery Hous Vojnovic, Indjija
2014.'' Ichigo Imaginarium'' , Art Gallery Gornji Milanovac
2014.'' Ichigo Imaginarium'' , Gallery Boza Ilic, Prokuplje
2015. ''The two faces of the same'', exhibition of drawings, Gallery of the National Museum, Cacak
2015. ''The two faces of the same'', exhibition of drawings, Art Gallery KC Gornji Milanovac
2016. "Journey to the Center of Silence", exhibition of drawings, Happy Gallery SKC, Belgrade