FOUR PLAY / VUK VIDOR / MAY 20, 2023 / BELGRADE
“Four Play” are four exhibitions by Vuk Vidor, at four different locations:
1. Hall of the Museum of the City of Belgrade, Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 30
2. Gallery X Vitamin, Resavska 19
3. SKC, Kralja Milana 48
4. ARTE gallery, Kralja Milana 48/50
The exhibitions show four different projects, series of paintings, drawings and installations, each with its own theme.
“Four Play” 1 / “Dodecameron” in the Salon of the Museum of the City of Belgrade, at Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 30, presents 12 large-scale paintings created in Belgrade in recent years. In each painting, there is an interpretation of a human figure placed in imaginary spaces where it becomes a hybrid form found between reality and dream, consciousness and subconsciousness, a bridge between inner and outer worlds. As a possible variant on the theme of (self) portraits, these paintings represent a continuation of the exploration of the conflict between these two worlds through a human figure that combines the visible and the invisible, the microscopic and the macroscopic, thereby erasing within the canvas all predefined and recognizable shapes and dimensions. The human figure becomes a connector connected to all possible and various elements that define his existence, his environment and his destiny.
“Four Play” 2 / “Ćorsokak” in the X Vitamin gallery, Resavska Street 19, is a multimedia installation in which the gallery space becomes an environment in which feelings of alienation and rejection can be presented in a tangible way using sculpture, words and sound. How to present the feeling of rejection, breakdown and alienation? Both inner and outer worlds falling apart and shattering into pieces within and around you? Everything crushes you, everything melts and distorts, all the lights go out. Like blocked arteries that slowly suffocate you until everything bursts. All beliefs and certainties crumble. Stuck in the void, as if facing a collision with themselves in mid-air, punished by Gods and Men, stripped of pride, ego, purpose and direction. And then, suddenly, you are faced with a distorted image of yourself in that collapsed world. Outside of things. Rejected. Broken. Broken. In Ćorsokak.
“Four Play” 3 / “Sweet Apocalypse (Part 1)” in the gallery of the Student Cultural Center, Kralja Milan 48, presents four large paintings on the theme of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Started more than 20 years ago as a multimedia complex project that includes paintings, sculptures, documents and a film that attempts to present the traditional biblical subject of the Apocalypse in modern forms, this is the first part to present an interpretation of the 4 horsemen (plague, famine, war and death) in the artist’s style and vocabulary, each with its own specific characteristic attributes in terms of color, subject and themes. “Sweet Apocalypse” is a multi-layered project conceived as a contemporary interpretation of the theme of the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse from the Revelation of St. John. Plague, war, famine and death, all have a set of peculiarities, numbers, colors, attributes that define each of them. Images do not hold original description, they already use four specific colors (white, red, black and green) as a starting point to show them in a more open and personal way. current state. These diagrams show a linear continuity between world history intertwined with the evolution of art leading to the realization of the elements and phases of the Apocalypse in contemporary settings.
“Four Play” 4 / “Atoms & Cells” at the ARTE gallery presents various series of paintings and drawings that explore the concepts of microscopic cells and macroscopic galactic dimensions. The first series is illustrated with works on paper from the “Lives of the Saints” series. Each drawing shows a “cellular” representation of real or fictional saints that bypass classical depictions and move into abstraction through shapes and colors, narrowing their traditional realistic depictions to imaginary DNA portraits. The macroscopic and galactic dimension is explored through images of fictional galaxies where almost every star is captioned according to personal references, creating a catalog of random notes. Some images of galaxies include skulls as a way of showing the passage of time, memory and the interconnected visible and invisible connections we “below” have with what is happening “above”. A series of small diptychs called “Day” depicts atomic explosions as a link between those two dimensions. Those atomic explosions are in dialogue with other specific or trivial elements to create a bridge between the atom and the universe, where the former is able to influence the latter.
A guided tour of the exhibition will be held on Wednesday, May 31, at 5 p.m., and will begin with a gathering at the location of the Belgrade City Museum Salon, Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 30. The author, Vuk Vidor, will guide you through the exhibition. After the guided tour through the exhibition at that location, the artist and the audience will visit the other locations where the exhibition is set up, the X Vitamin gallery (Resavska 19), the Student Cultural Center gallery (Kralja Milana 48) and the ARTE gallery (Kralja Milana 48/50).
At any time, you can get information about the course of the guide through the exhibition and the location where the artist and the audience are currently located by calling the phone number +381 63 638 147.