Milan Tucović (Požega, 1965 – Beograd, 2019)
Milan Tucović was a Serbian painter and sculptor who graduated at department for sculpture at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 1991. His art differs from the current trends of our time. Certitude and clarity of its language, among other things, arises from loyalty to figuration and the human form. One can find the roots of this language in sculpture, which is artist’s first vocation, as well as traces of Yugoslav surrealism and “fantastic art” whose theorist and practitioner was painter and writer Leonid Seika. Tucovic creates surreal metaphysical world in which time and movement stopped by using methods of magical realism. Milan Tucovic’s universe is deprived of any movement. Figures look as if they are taken from the past, serene in their uniforms, stopped in their poses as in a photo. Precise language, the classical technique of oil on wood or canvas, layered, multi tone in the dim light of old gold – Tucovic creates scenes of tranquility and serenity.