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Blazo Kovacevic
 

Born in Podgorica, Montenegro, Europe in 1973.
Professor at Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, USA.

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About the Artist

My artistic endeavor is driven by my fascination with the conflict, in its every aspect and form. My means of exploration itself involves conflict, as I confront contradicting visual elements, incompatible materials, ideas and behavior, art and technology.
Social phenomena compel me. Assuming that every socially engaged activity bears a political label, I acknowledge the political in my work. Preferring the politics of revolution to the politics of evolution, I punctuate my statements about identity and freedom through alchemy of materials and techniques.

This transformation of materials in my work acts as a metaphor for the transformation of society. By giving the materials new names and meanings, emphasizing their identities through contrast to each other, I create a coded language. This language then becomes my vehicle for decoding the unexplainable and bridging the insurmountable. More than mere narrative, this layered process of transmutation and translation for me proves highly satisfying and effective.

Accepting the confrontation as not necessarily a negative, albeit violent process, I hope for the successful merge of the tradition and the new, adapting our ever-changing interaction to develop along with the society.
 
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Surveillance

2005
digital print on vinyl
79cm x 71cm

Reconnaissance

2005
digital print on vinyl
182cm x 127cm

French Connection

2005
mixed media
162cm x 127cm

Two Lighthouses

2005
mixed media on canvas
122cm x 81cm

Artwork is perforated and could be split in half and purchased separately. Half of the piece is $1500

Maps&Cuts Installation view

2005

Widget

2005
digital print vinyl mesh
R=256cm

Apparatus

2005
digital print on Plexiglas
91cm x 91cm

Apparatus (detail)

2005

detail

Body

2007
mixed media on canvas
76.2cm x 76.2cm

Radiation

2007
mixed media on canvas
76.2cm x 55.88cm

Lucy

2005
digital print on vinyl
182.88cm x 127cm

Mimi, Bertha and the rest of the gang

2005
digital print on vinyl
152.4cm x 106.68cm

Artwork is perforated and could be divided in 4 parts and purchased separately. Each part is $1000

The three Graces

2005
digital print on vinyl
127cm x 76.2cm

Artwork is perforated and could be split in 3 parts and purchased separately. Each part is $1300

Duel

2005
digital print on vinyl
203cm x 152.4cm

Artwork is perforated and could be divided in two parts and purchased separately. Left part is $5000 and the right one is $2000.

Yellow figure

2008
mixed media on canvas
109cm x 47cm

Violin case

2008
mixed media on canvas
66cm x 94cm

SKB case

2008
mixed media on canvas
66cm x 94cm

Lady bag

2008
mixed media on canvas
46cm x 61cm

Mixed view

2007
mixed media on canvas
112cm x 132cm

Mixer truck

2007
mixed media on canvas
35cm x 51cm

 
Education and biography
Education
2000. MFA in Studio Arts, Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
1997. BFA in Painting and Art History, Summa Cum Laude. University of Fine Arts, Cetinje, Montenegro.

Projects
2004. WebArt, International digital art Festival, Montenegro, Initiator and Director.

Exhibitions
Solo
2009. Gallery Expresso, Savannah, GA, USA.
2008. "Wrapping up the Chaos", Gallery Chaos, Belgrade, Serbia.. "Continental Breakfast- Nutrition Facts", Gallery Carver, Podgorica, Montenegro.
2005. "Maps & Cuts", Hurong Lou Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
2004. "Continental Breakfast- Nutrition Facts", Gallery Chaos, Belgrade, Serbia.
2003. Space 237, Toledo, OH, USA.
2003. "Liquidation", Gallery Chaos, Belgrade, Serbia.
2002. "Liquidation", Center for Contemporary Art in Podgorica, Montenegro.
2002. "Liquidation", Cultural Center of Serbia and Montenegro, Paris, France.
2002. "Clearance", Galley Siano, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
1998. Gallery "Josip-Bepo Benkovic", Herceg-Novi, Montenegro.
1997. Gallery "Art Forum", Niksic, Montenegro.

Group (selected)
2008. Invitational Podgorica Fine Arts Salon, Podgorica, Montenegro.
2008. 63rd Traditional Exhibit, Association of Fine Artists, Podgorica, Montenegro.
2008. Inaugural exhibition, Blankspace gallery, Savannah, GA, USA.
2008. Inaugural exhibition "From the gallery's Collection", Gallery Chaos - nouvel espace, Belgrade, Serbia.. Ingest, ATHICA, Athens, GA
2007. “Small Works”, Red Gallery, Savannah, GA, USA.
2006. SOFA, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, USA.
2006. "Icarus", Savannah Gallery, Atlanta, USA.
2006. "Moderne Kunst Aus Montenegro" (Contemporary Montenegrin Art), Stephansdom, Vienna, Austria.
2005. SOFA, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, USA.
2005. “Inaugural exhibition”, Hurong Lou Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
2005. International Festival of Alternative Cultural Exchange (F.A.C.E.) Belgrade, Novi Sad, Cluj, Bucharest, Plovdiv, Sofia, Sarajevo, Strasbourg and Eindhoven.
2004. 59th Traditional Exhibit, Association of Fine Artists, Podgorica, Montenegro.
2004. Cetinje Fine Arts Salon, Plavi Dvorac castle, Cetinje, Montenegro.
2003. Seventh Podgorica Fine Arts Salon, Gallery Art, Podgorica, Montenegro.
2003. 50th Venice Biennial, Utopia Station, Venice, Italy.
2003. 58th Traditional Exhibit, Association of Fine Artists, Podgorica, Montenegro.
2002. Sixth Podgorica Fine Arts Salon, Gallery Art, Podgorica, Montenegro.
2002. 57h Traditional Exhibit, Association of Fine Artists, Podgorica, Montenegro.
2001. 56th Traditional Exhibit, Association of Fine Artists, Podgorica, Montenegro.
2001. "Acts of Kindness", Mandell Theatre, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
2001. "First Blood" Ericson Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
2001. Traditional National Juried Show "34th Hercegnovski Winter Salon" in Herceg Novi, Montenegro.
2000. International Art Auction, Palette's Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA.
2000. "Pogled", Young Montenegrin Artists, Center for Contemporary Art, Podgorica, Montenegro.
2000. 55th Traditional Exhibit, Association of Fine Artists, Podgorica, Montenegro.
2000. Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
1999. "Voices of the New Century", Gallery Chaos, Belgrade, Serbia.
1999. 54th Traditional Exhibition of the Association of the Fine Artist of Montenegro.
1998. Modern Gallery, Budva, Montenegro.
1998. Traveling Exhibition "2 Triennial of Young Montenegrin Artists", Montenegro.
1998. 53rd Traditional Exhibition of the Association of the Fine Artist of Montenegro.
1997. "Independent Eight", Center for Contemporary Art in Podgorica, Montenegro, (exhibition won the prize "The Best in Montenegro in 1997").
1997. Gallery Gams, Cetinje, Montenegro.
1996. "Barski Ljetopis" Festival, Montenegro.
 
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