My artistic psyche plays with everything, and the fact that this political subject matter has imposed itself upon me only speaks more about the times we live in. While the public is widely engaged in the entertainment of politickin’ (in the urban-slang sense), our Zeitgeist is ruled by politicking. However, my foremost interests go beyond political messages, since I am primarily seduced by the very graphic language and its symbolism. The most used mass-media graphic icons of our time reach out to me as ready-made material and I reinterpret them in my own way, while drawing attention to the need for higher awareness of their use and meaning, since the human politicking psyche has always been prone to distorting ideas behind visual symbols.

Politickin'

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. 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.

Blockheads

The “Celeblocks” (“Celebrity Blockheads”) cycle is a continuation of my “Blockheads” cycle of painted wooden-beam sculptures inspired by the urban environment and the visual style of street-art culture. I continue to use two-dimensional drawings on a three-dimensional surface to make these street-art totems spring to life with the recognizable celebrities who, in my eyes, have made a lasting impact. Just like the everyday Blockhead characters, the Celeblocks also fulfill their individual block of space, each in their own “mentally limited” way.

Celeblocks

Daily abstracts

A series of works dealing with repetition both in the subject matter and in the medium of printmaking. The works have been engraved on various sized PVC pipes and then printed on paper or plastic. The endless, looping printing plate enables compositions that go beyond the size limitation of the printing press.

Recurrences I

A selection of works experimenting with the monotype

Andrej Marjanovic