If anyone is looking for me, I'm in the pantry. Print

HERE’S THE MAN This summary and especially the detail are the basis of Dušan's technical research and painting procedures that overcome this distance in the language of art and convey the poetic content to the audience in the form of an authentic work of art. The technical processing of the work relies on a very modern artistic approach of transfer from medium to medium. Freehand drawing sketches, as initial observations and ideas, are transferred to digital sketches for painting, which are then made by hand with different techniques, materials, and tools on the painting canvas. In this process, Marino uses a variety of painting and non-painting materials and accessories to achieve different effects in the materialization of the painting, many of which come from digital media and which emphasize some important aspects of the content or detail. He usually processes his characters using the air-brush technique, which seems to simulate the effects of a worn-out felt-tip pen or ballpoint pen, which undoubtedly originates from analog sketches but gives the finished images the quality of quickly observed and recorded scenes but also very unexpected dynamics. The inner restlessness of the characters themselves. In contrast, the treatment of details and ambiances is far more monumental, although it is not formally strict. Glossy enamel paint glazes, transparency or grading, rough surfaces obtained by mixing pastes, paints, and other materials, embossed and cut-out details as well as various cutting, scratching, and fine painting procedures, emphasize the specific character of each detail giving it special significance in composition and a special voice in poetics. In the paintings from his current cycle, Dušan Marino manages to connect the opposites of his simultaneously daily boiling and timelessly cold poetics as well as the formally stylistic opposites of traditional and digital media into one contemporary and noteworthy painting and artistic whole.