BELGRADE UNDERGROUND

L'IMPRESSARIO (2011)

2011-12-05T12:31:00.000-08:00

THREE AMIGOS

2011-11-29T22:11:00.000-08:00

BLITZKRIEG

2011-09-27T09:33:00.000-07:00

COCKSURE

2011-09-27T09:24:00.000-07:00

THE PORNOBOT

2011-09-07T09:46:00.000-07:00

POLE DANCER

2011-09-07T09:39:00.001-07:00

FOLK PARADE

2011-09-07T09:32:00.001-07:00

LOVESICK GOON

2011-08-06T00:05:00.000-07:00

THE SCREAM

2011-05-05T05:17:00.000-07:00

THE BIG SLEEP

2011-04-30T01:01:00.000-07:00

WAR PIGS

2011-01-08T11:46:00.000-08:00

BOUQET

2010-11-07T06:36:00.000-08:00

I am happy to say that this pic will appear on calender for 2011, published annually by graphic workshop of Faculty of fine arts in Belgrade. Calender's promotive exhibition (which will also put some of my old works on display) will be held in workshop's gallery within a month. Presumed date is 15th December.

CHARGE

2010-09-03T10:41:00.000-07:00

Digital sketch for my new painting "Charge".

POLE DANCER (BLUE)

2010-09-03T10:37:00.000-07:00

BIG TALK

2010-09-03T10:27:00.001-07:00

One of my earliest works from "Belgrade Underground" cycle. Executed in 1988 (or so). Acrylic on paper.

ROCK and ROLL

2010-07-18T01:22:00.000-07:00

izložba "TRIJUMF SAVREMENE UMETNOSTI" u MSUV NOVI SAD

2010-06-07T10:31:00.000-07:00

Les Misérables

2010-04-29T10:20:00.000-07:00

220 x 160 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2010

LIL DOGGIE

2010-04-18T23:28:00.000-07:00

From the "The Blackout" exhibition in KCB, Belgrade. Also reprinted in "Dobar, Los & Zao" catalogue. 87th post.

OH!

2010-03-16T23:16:00.000-07:00

One work from the series of flyers done for 'Fusion' nightclub way back in 1991. I will be participating in group show "HARD SOC" at Beograd gallery on 15th of april.

BIG TALK

2010-03-16T12:11:00.000-07:00

HIGH AND DRY

2010-03-14T03:34:00.001-07:00

done in 1989.

WARHEAD

2010-03-14T03:12:00.000-07:00

My work from 90s.

ACROBAT

2010-02-28T00:05:00.001-08:00

acrylic on canvas (unstretched) 200 x 150 cm

HELTER SKELTER

2010-02-05T09:10:00.001-08:00

acrylic on canvas, 150 X 150 cm, 2010. Next week it will be on a view at Gallery ''Progres''.

CYRILLIC LETTERS (А,Б,В,Г,Д,Ђ)

2009-11-29T03:09:00.001-08:00

Polyptich "Cyrillic Alphabet", five-panel large scale digital print
was executed exclusively for my show at Gallery Zvono. It's a vector
remake of an old painting of mine, small format work i did in 2000.
when I finally got sick from media overkill of pamphlets by orderly
defenders of cyrillic alphabet. RTS (Radio Television of Serbia) even
brought up a short lived decision to ban all serbian rock groups from
recording songs sung in english. It was considered as "patriotic" act,
ultimate defense of cyrillics.
Needless to say, effect was quite the opposite.
Ten years later, all cyrillic fonts that are used in actual serbian
medias and advertising designing can be counted with ten fingers. More
accurately, even two fingers will do since all daily news are printed
with same fonts, namely "Cyrillic Times New Roman" or "Politika".
Even the paper layout is practically identical.
Few billboards that use cyrillic letters clearly show how much
cyrillic typography remained underdeveloped and completely out of
times. It's a crying shame.
So this monumental work can also be viewed as my modest suggestion for
a brand new cyrillic font.

CYRILLIC LETTERS (E,Ж,З,И,Ј,К)

2009-11-29T03:07:00.000-08:00

CYRILLIC ALPHABET (Л,Љ,М,Н,О)

2009-11-29T03:04:00.000-08:00

CYRILLIC ALPHABET (П,Р,С,Т,Ћ,У)

2009-11-29T03:02:00.000-08:00

CYRILLIC ALPHABET (Ф, Х, Ц, Џ, Ш)

2009-11-29T02:59:00.001-08:00

SRDJAN DJILE MARKOVIC agenda za 2010.

2009-11-06T02:39:00.000-08:00

Po uzoru na slične proizvode nemačke kuće "Tašen" (Taschen), “Booking Art Agende” podržaće domaće umetnike i promovisati njihov rad.

U prvoj ediciji našli su se slikari Uroš Đurić, Saša Rakezić Zograf, Srđan Đile Marković i Jelena Jelača.

Posebno mesto u prvoj ediciji ima i agenda “Pokloni se Titu”, koja sadržati 14 fotografija eksponata sa izložbe “Efekat Tito - harizma kao politička legitimacija”, autorke Marine Dokmanović, koja je bila postavljena u Muzeju “25. maj”.

Sajt kuće “Booking” je www.bookingknjige.com

VIVA YUGOSLAVIA

2009-10-05T02:33:00.000-07:00

Currently on a view at Art Pavillion Cvijeta Zuzoric, Belgrade.

ALCOHOLIC

2009-10-02T00:25:00.000-07:00

73rd post (oh my!). This one was executed in 1988. acryl on paper, 100 x 70 cm

SELBSTBILDNIS

2009-09-24T02:36:00.000-07:00

SEXKILLER: NO PITY

2009-09-13T09:28:00.000-07:00

PORTRAIT OF UNKNOWN MAN

2009-09-10T00:12:00.001-07:00

LITTLE BRAT

2009-09-04T02:52:00.000-07:00

BOUQUET FOR EVERY OCCASION

2009-08-29T04:16:00.000-07:00

Work I've done this august in art colony in St. Andrea, Hungary. They have great museum in Budpest, lotsa old masters.

BUDAPEST METRO

2009-08-29T04:10:00.001-07:00

HALLOWEEN (hommage a d.b)

2009-07-16T04:04:00.000-07:00

CARTOON CREEPS

2009-06-25T09:02:00.000-07:00

WORLD POLICE

2009-05-16T00:16:00.001-07:00

ACE OF DIAMONDS

2009-05-15T11:10:00.000-07:00

DANCING LIKE A GUN

2009-04-28T03:49:00.000-07:00

CLUB "OMEN", BELGRADE 1988

2009-04-24T07:12:00.000-07:00

FINAL BLOW

2009-04-16T05:09:00.000-07:00

HI!

2009-04-16T04:46:00.001-07:00

GUITAR GOD

2009-04-16T04:28:00.000-07:00

MR. MAN

2009-04-16T04:14:00.001-07:00

SEX MACHINE

2009-04-16T03:56:00.000-07:00

dated 1989 on the back

JACK SKELLINGTON'S SMILE

2009-03-27T01:38:00.000-07:00

Painted on a wooden easter egg.

SEWER PARTY

2009-02-16T07:13:00.000-08:00

this is "Sewer Party", it was executed way back in 1989. It was first painting from "Belgrade Underground" series I did on large scale. Dimensions are 200 x 150 cm. Idea was to use famous "all over' composition technique practiced by Pollock and other ab-ex household names and to apply it to a figurative composition.

POISON 2

2009-02-03T12:03:00.000-08:00

Nagrada "Zlatna Paleta ULUS" za 2010 na Prolecnoj izlozbi u Cvijeti Zuzoric.

PRETTY BABE

2009-01-22T07:16:00.000-08:00

"Pretty Babe" is rather small painting I executed for gallery Helena for show "Art Colony Halkidiki, Greece 2008".

THE NIGHT

2008-11-12T09:12:00.001-08:00

I will be (probably) having a solo show at Gallery Zvono, Belgrade this year. So stay tuned. Am currently workin' on some sketches...one idea is to redo alphabet in 30 separate paintings.

PSSSYCHE

2008-11-12T09:10:00.000-08:00

"Psssyche" was exhibited in show "Serbian Art in 90s" in MOCA, Belgrade 2005.

SHADOW MUSEUM

2008-10-21T04:21:00.000-07:00

Three works of mine were included in exhibition Shadow Museum, which is currently on view at Novi Sad's Museum of Contemporary arts.

ACROBAT 2

2008-10-12T01:59:00.000-07:00

Second version of "Acrobat" done at light speed, literally. Tried to achive smooth gradations in acryls which is a dirty devil's trick.

I AM THE PARTY

2008-10-11T14:36:00.001-07:00

My new series of digital prints will be on display at gallery of DK Studentski Grad in Belgrade from 31st october. Supernaut will play at the opening.
Btw, this work was bought by City hall. =P

TERMINATOR

2008-08-26T00:21:00.000-07:00

So sorry I don't have higher resolution photo of this work. I am convinced it turned out pretty good. It's quite big as well, 200 x 150 cm. I ought to do this painting as a digiprint. I painted it at the beginning of 90s when civil war was just beginning. What can you do, except pump up the depiction of human violence to a monumental grotesque...but it won't save the world.

ALPHABET

2008-08-25T23:41:00.000-07:00

An rather personal take at cyrillic alphabet. Thirty letters - thirty super creeps.

SUBWAY

2008-05-01T14:14:00.000-07:00

I will be in Greece till 20th of June, taking part in some art colony organized by Belgrade gallery Helena. Hope I will finish this one there, in Mediterranean peace and quiet =D

PLUS!!! We will be working whole summer on Supernaut's sixth album. Just don't ask me who will be publisher, I can not be bothered about it now. We did that Roky Ericsson song "Nothing in Return" (anthem like title, sums up results of one's entire art career in just three words). So stay tuned...

The Draughtsman Contract

2008-04-03T04:46:00.001-07:00

Hell Yeah! This work was printed on cover of now defunct "Student" magazine. I executed it really quickly, lost the original and am currently working on an remake of it. While we are at the topic of remakes -- i have this crazy idea of redoing all my works from 1987-1989. Am really curios how would they look if I invest my present experience in those old ideas. Ars longa, vita brevis etc.

frankie's car

2008-03-28T07:17:00.000-07:00

Fell in love with kustom kulture, for a short period and just had to do Frankenstein driving a hot rod. Gosh, he turned out to be so big he would hardly fit into this dragster. But there is a deep symbolism beneath every mistake we make. Fasten seat belts and I will explain - no matter how old we grow, we still wanna crawl back into our baby shoes. How come past always looks so secure and comforting? Because we forget all about it, maybe.

WANNA RIDE, SWEETCHEEKS?

2008-03-11T06:38:00.000-07:00

And I do feel sorry for all my works I was forced to sell dirtcheap. Oh, what a wonderful life.

GREAT IDEA

2008-03-11T06:37:00.000-07:00

A still from Lobo comics I remade as a painting. Lot of smarties objected I was "losing my direction"...as if I had one! XD

portrait of an graphic artist

2008-03-05T01:21:00.000-08:00

Second work in that portrait series.
Executed in 1987 (or so).

SELF-PORTRAIT

2008-02-28T01:38:00.000-08:00

One of the first portraits I have done in flat color planes. Circa 1986...or so? 22 years ago...and still counting =) !!!

the kiss 3

2008-02-15T02:11:00.001-08:00

On a view at Dar Mar gallery.

the kiss 2

2008-02-15T02:10:00.001-08:00

hyperproduction! eighth deadly sin! =)

GOMORRAH SKYLINE

2008-01-13T08:37:00.000-08:00

I am currently painting this one (and am so lazy to do it). I will do that famous trick of mixing acryls with detergent, just to see if it actually slowers drying of polymer paint...but I doubt that very much.

NOTHING IN RETURN

2008-01-04T06:20:00.001-08:00

We will be playing Akademija on 10. January. We have a Roky Ericson remake, namely that "Nothing In Return" song. It still sounds awful in our less-than-minimal version, but it will get better (or maybe it will not). I was in shopping mall last night, so I am still suffering a "mallover". It is fascinating to see all these unhappy people buying goods and still remaining even more unhappy cos they can not buy more goods. Shop till you drop. Desire caught by tail?

HOGTIE

2008-01-04T06:18:00.000-08:00

Oh Bondage, Up Yours...Wet dreams of domination for consumer's satisfaction. I whore for art.

By the way, some bondage sites have such great photographs...completely surreal ^^
You have got to admit that these guys work their backs off (pun intendend).

FRIENDS

2007-12-15T03:50:00.000-08:00

"You cant have friends! Money is gonna see to that. I should believe in honey flowing from the rock. I should believe in human nature...but I do not. I wanna be a friend, to the bitter end. I wanna be a friend but baby I just cant be" (You cant have friends, The Stooges)

THE SPY 2

2007-12-13T03:39:00.000-08:00

Lousy photo. I have to remake this one for digital print edition. It will be good. Just wait and see. Bird on right is actually Braque rip off. Crime pays.

THREE AMIGOS

2007-11-28T03:19:00.000-08:00

UNCLE

2007-11-28T03:14:00.001-08:00

Oh Uncle...Please do not help us out anymore. Petit please with sugar on top?

THE ACROBAT

2007-11-25T04:13:00.000-08:00

Uh...I missed. He was supposed to be balancing on his index finger, but somehow it did not come out...I am rapidly forgetting tricks of illusionistic painting. Does it make me a realist? The only realistic thing about painting is that painting is never realistic.

DANCE

2007-10-06T05:13:00.001-07:00

Absolute originality hardly exists. In the wonderful world of mimicry and mannerism, visual language designed to code mass behaviour, nothing is consumed so quickly, and then even more quickly disposed of, as comics. Nowaday comics do their best to get that 3D movies styling, but somehow I think it is a complete waste of time. For verism and texture were never essential problems. Drawing simulates thinking. Thinking process of that animal named man is too abstract to be bothered with structure and texture of objects. Its more about an idea of object, than the object itself.

MAN IN THE CLOUDS

2007-10-02T06:54:00.000-07:00

Man in the clouds was inspired by painting of same name, done by Frits Van Den Berghe. I am rethinking northern expressionismus...and I came to no conclusions, I am sorry to say. Lot of early Pop was expressionistic, till they learned costumers prefer smooth, clean surfaces. Money talks. I think original intention of Pop was to unite the opposites - expressionistic and bland modern look. Like trying to mix fire and gasoline. It never really works for you. But who can tell.

THE RAPE OF EUROPE

2007-09-26T04:12:00.001-07:00

Poor Europe. She always gets raped. Ever since Zeus. Nobody wants to rule the world (except every mother's son).

BASEMENT KISSES

2007-09-08T12:59:00.000-07:00

Front cover of one of them damn comics. They were xeroxed and handed out for free in a local discotheque. Was heavily into "maximalism". Never really found out what that word was supposed to mean? Murder viewer with details?

DANCING

2007-08-20T16:47:00.000-07:00

Somehow lines are not exactly dancing. Maybe I ought to give it more op art treatment. Be "more professional"...but better do stay alive. Do not join the professionals.

POLITICALLY SPEAKING

2007-08-20T16:42:00.000-07:00

Just listen to what your favourite politician is talking. Cliches, phraseology...catacombs with dead language of the dead. Verbal smokescreen. Teledirected lobotomy.

SELF PORTRAIT WITH PLANTS

2007-08-08T12:56:00.000-07:00

Two old drawings from eighties. I tried to simulate comic book authors train of thought, but realized I am lousy storyteller. Done with felt tips. I was in "fragile state of mind". Still am, but got used to it. What were vices, now are habits.

FAMILY RUN BUSINESS

2007-07-28T01:38:00.001-07:00

I like to keep it in the family. Thin line between "low" and "high" culture gets thinner per nanosecond. Shows like Addams Family somehow always reminded me of typical local families here. I am not being ironic.

A NICE PAIR

2007-07-28T01:30:00.000-07:00

Grotesque is always undervalued art discipline. But I have no time for that. Grotesque is as real as your world view which is always deformed a bit. For man is animal incapable of truth. This does not need extra testing. Goes without saying.

THE LIVING ROOM

2007-07-25T10:04:00.000-07:00

And they have not lived happily ever after. For only misery is immortal. They fell for belief that opposites attract. Sure enough and yes they do. Like nytro and glycerine. He loved her so much, he decided to put her out of her misery. Gave her a divorce (actually not with a gun, but you have to dramatize a bit).

A CHILD

2007-07-24T03:55:00.001-07:00

DA BLUES

2007-07-20T06:27:00.000-07:00

Needless to say, any rock music with 15 % of brains was banned from airwaves during war. And music that tried to stand against general collapse could be heard only in basements or cellars...for an audience of 30 or less. The hysteria of the moment was to show the world WE can do without THEM. We? Them? But how disgustingly silent all musicians and artists were. They all played to history certified safety rule that it is much better to oppose war when war is finished. Academy professors kept repeating that art has nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with narratives, nothing to do with...life, innit? Art has nothing to do? Follow the leaders! You must believe them!

"THE PLANT" REVISITED

2007-07-19T10:33:00.000-07:00

Self-portrait as a botanical mutation.

THOSE HICHHIKERS

2007-07-19T01:39:00.001-07:00

Some dead friends i am dreaming of. While civil war lasted over here, they thought they should have as much fun as possible. Who could blame them? Dance while Rome burns. Always! They only violated that simple law of human resistance to alkaloids.

MY PRAYER

2007-07-19T01:24:00.000-07:00

Painting MY PRAYER app. 200 by 150 cm. Positively black and white (they turn the day into night). Was also featured in my

THE BLACKOUT solo show were I exhibited only B & W works on canvas.

FALLING

2007-06-05T07:00:00.001-07:00

He was on detox therapy. His father said to him "U never do anything for this house!" So he went away to throw the trash. Right through terrace! 15th floor. A true story.

THIS FLOWER (AINT GONNA ROT)

2007-06-05T05:54:00.000-07:00

A miracle called static picture! Flowers never rot. Girls stay young forever. Dirty intentions are never realized. Death is so...moral.

CHILDREN PAINTING

2007-06-05T05:47:00.000-07:00

Children Painting was done for MOCA Belgrade show "Serbian Painting during Nineties" in 2005. How I hated that show! Curators were so quick to show "art that shook Milosevics regime". In retrospect, all politically engaged art in nineties was pure crap. Otto Dix and George Grosz wouldnt stand a chance in Serbia. No, dear.

THE PLANT

2007-06-05T05:40:00.000-07:00

The Plant is a self portrait. Well, at least in terms of psychological portraiture. It reflects my social position very accurately. During mid-nineties I started working on series of black and white paintings, shown at my solo exhibition "The Blackout" at Cultural Centre of Belgrade.

THE KISS

2007-06-04T11:23:00.001-07:00

Girls love this one. Only love matters, but you never know how long your hallucination is going to last. Me going into "intimism"?

THE SPY

2007-06-04T10:21:00.000-07:00

An eye for an eye. A spy for a spy. Everybody was suspect during nineties in Belgrade. And you could earn some good money by spying on people and lying about their "subversive behaviour". An opportunity made in heaven! Lot of artists did it, too. Great benefits. Talking bout shame, this is a world of shame.

THE BATHROOM

2007-06-04T08:37:00.000-07:00

Art is for voayeurs, they say. Bathroom scene. Please dont freak. Doors are locked, just you and me. Can I take you to the reastaurant that got glass tables. You can watch yourself while you are eating.