Text for the catalog of the exhibition "From portrait to abstraction", Homeland Museum of Gradiska, Gradiska (RS-BiH) 2016.
"Successfully responding to the demands of academia, but even more successfully by introducing the demands of personal instinctive judgment, Aleksandar defined himself from the very beginning and laid clear and decisive foundations for his painting. His decisiveness, ambition and clear vision are in direct proportion to his painterly expression and compositional complexity. Alexander's initial preoccupation with figuration, which he rules, begins to expand, deepen and build upon, cleaning and simplifying with which he consciously and boldly flows into abstraction, which rests on solid foundations and emerges from the layered examination of the possibilities of artistic expression. The cycle is simultaneously unified by a dominant and raw warm with color, which seems to burn in the paintings, but which is controlled and tamed by the skill of the artist, without detracting from the representation of true painterly channeling of passion. Playing with the intervals of the painted surface as an instrument of opposing movements, the line as a direction and the whiteness of the canvas as compositional pauses, it creates an infectious rhythm and personal dynamics. Giving a new meaning, visually and aesthetically talking about his development, the development of his own idea and artistic maturity, disclosing the process of artistic creation on the way to abstraction, it remains for us to follow and wait for what he will put in front of us in the future and call his truth."
Daria Vujasin, MA
Art Historian
Text for the catalog of the exhibition "Presjek", Cultural center Banski dvor, Banja Luka (RS-BiH) 2016.
"Contemplation of the image thus led Lujićeva, Majstorovićeva, Obrenović, Bojanić and Maksimović to the pictorial flow of metaphysical and gestural post-formalist and post-expressionist aesthetic objects, in which the parts carry exactly the same qualities as the whole. Their poetic writings range from refined lyricism to brutal destructive screams , which sometimes creates lumps of matter, sometimes destroys it, and with color they cancel even the slightest interest in scarcity. There is no "recipe" neither for creating nor for interpreting this kind of painting effect. It simply rests in the being of the artist himself, and the complicated world in which it takes place "coming" to the surface can provoke anything from the mental molecular world. Processuality in this kind of continuity of internal spiritual and external physical recording is often equated in quality with the final arte-product itself. The titles of the works testify only to the fact that the artists fertilize their information from the fascinating and phantasmagorical world into the completeness of their personal artistic identity. An older colleague, Radoslav Tadić, certainly joined this group with his works."
Prof. dr Siniša Vidaković
Art Historian
