Rade TepavčEvić

I am an artist based in Serbia. Through satiric relationship between people and animals I am trying to show the human state of mind in which we live in. Using ironic texts, which are to be found in most of my works, I am trying to bring the attention to the distorted state of mind and values that rule our society. These equivocal texts play a very important role in the interpretation of the painting as much as in transmitting the message and the whole composition of the painting. The paintings have the form of advertisement, which are getting more and more frequent in our society and are becoming a part of our everyday life. The modern lifestyle is marked with the idea that everything is on sale. People today have a distorted moral system and wrong values which make them set a price for everything just for the sake of gaining profit. This is what I want to suggest in my advertisement themed paintings in which I show the endangered animal species on sale.
The main art medium I use is acrylic and I often combine it with different acrylic and oil markers and other drawing materials. I draw on canvas or paper. I plan to work on big formats that would draw attention of an observer to the story I am talking about by their monumental val...

2013 – 2017 Academy of Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia
2009 – 2013 School of Art, Novi Sad, Serbia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016. IZBA, Novi Sad, Serbia
2016. Lokal, Novi Sad, Serbia
2017. SKCNS Fabrika, Novi Sad, Serbia
2017. Gallery BelArt, Novi Sad, Serbia
2017. Street gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016. Gallery of library “Karlo Bjelicki” Sombor, Serbia
2016. Gallery of Cultural Center, Aleksinac, Serbia
2016. Gallery of International univeristy , Novi Pazar, Serbia
2016. Gallery of Cultural Center of Kula, Serbia
2016. Gallery of Cultural Center of Vrbas, Serbia
2016. City Museum, Gallery, Leskovac, Serbia
2016. City Museum, Gallery, Zajecar, Serbia
2016. Gallery of Cultural Center, Knjaževac, Serbia
2016. Gallery “Meander” , Аpatin, Serbia
2016. Gallery “Krug”, Becej, Serbia
2016. Sremska Mitrovica,- Gallery Lazar Vozarević, Serbia
2014. XXI exhibition of drawings, Gallery of Cultural Center Šabac, Serbia
2009. XXXI exhibition of drawings, Belgrade, National univeristybraća Stamenković, Serbia
2008. XXX exhibition of drawings, Belgrade, National univeristybraća Stamenković, Serbia
2007. XXIX exhibition of drawings, Belgrade, National univeristybraća Stamenković, Serbia
2017. Gallery, Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria