"LIKE THAT TREE (aura)" Painting

The artistic practice of Mladen Stropnik shaped around works on paper and canvas, collages, drawings, and short video loops build up on a specific intervention in the spaces of the everyday, immediate and recognizable, yet wondrous and distorted. Mladen’s artistic process is shaped around minimalist and conceptualist practices, and his artistic gesture operates through cuts and breaks while the narrative is reduced to a minimum, relying on consistent visual language and a certain economy of representation. Mladen Stropnik’s drawings or collages are based on minimal gestures intervening in the conceptual and abstract frameworks, as hints and fragments of the visible world, its bare and basic abstract details, often with elements of humor, playfulness, curiosity… the usual and unusual, to expose it, inviting us to look again. text: Branka Bencic