Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 12, 13 and 14, 2023
10 AM – 8 PM
ARTE gallery Belgrade, Kralja Milana 48
The doctoral art project was realized on the Digital Art program
of interdisciplinary studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade
Mentor
Ph.D. Julijana Protić, associate professor
Commentator
Rastko Ćirić, MA, retired full professor
The ambient display of digital animated sequences, a series of digital images of a static motif with animated lighting, represents the doctoral art project LIGHT. The project includes and interrelates the media of painting, digital photography and digital animation. Animation links the visual changes generated by changing the position and lighting characteristics to produce a continuous simulation event.
The topic of the project is the influence of light on the visual perception of scenes. Light changes its position and characteristics over time, and these changes are shown by the gradual reduction of visual content, from recognizable forms to two extreme states: completely white and completely black surfaces, which symbolize the presence of light of maximum intensity and its complete absence, indicating the conditioning of visual perception by light both in the case of the author of the image and in the case of its recipient.
The presence of light enables, and its absence prevents visual perception. The content itself, regardless of whether it was created materially or software-wise, is subject to reduction depending on whether there is lighting and what its character is.
The visual aspect of the work is content related to the genre of still life. That genre was chosen because of the static elements it represents, while the still lifes in the work itself were inspired by the works of Paul Cézanne, Giorgio Morandi, Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Piet Mondrian ( Piet Mondrian), Nedeljko Gvozdenović and Ljubica Cuce Sokić.
The exhibition consists of a digital installation, screens placed on the walls of the gallery showing digital animated sequences, as well as exhibited paintings (polyptychs). While the virtual light source illuminates one animated sequence, the others are dimmed. The visitor of the exhibition must follow the movement of the light source in order to be able to see the content of the animated sequences, while the painting works are illuminated by a special light source and are constantly visible, which highlights the difference between the material, i.e. physical and digital content. This simultaneously emphasizes the interdisciplinary character of the entire project.
Tijana Gogić, part of the official
Doctoral Artistic Project text
