Overview
Drago Persic
Photo © Drago Persic

"The photographic image of a scene is just one level, one idea. One step. The moment when I'm really painting is much more meaningful."

Drago Persic's works are based on memorabilia. A treasure trove of private photos, newspaper clippings, film sequences and staged photography. All of this culminates in his works into one big whole and makes them "flicker" across the screen like filmstrips. The blurriness that surrounds his latest works is based on the fact that every memory is diffuse, intangible and, above all, can no longer be recalled one-to-one. Drago Persic also conveys this ambiguity when he deliberately directs his slide projection out of focus onto his images. 

 

Originally using the entire colour palette from white to black, Persic's works are now becoming more and more colourful, the pigment is making its entrance. For the first time in his cloth pictures, in which he assigns exactly one pigment to each picture - that is, to each cloth. In his more recent series, to which the painting "German Dogs Have Clean Teeth" also belongs, the colour is applied in layers, superimposed and thus technically translated into nuances, as is also the case with the grey areas in his black and white paintings. 

Works
Biography
Photo © Drago Persic
Photo © Drago Persic

Drago Persic lives and works in Vienna

born 1981 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

2002 – 2007    Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (master class Muntean/Rosenblum, Elke Krystufek, Hans Scheirl)

 

SCHOLARSHIPS · HONOURS · AWARDS

 

2020    State Scholarship for Fine Arts

2019    Vorarlberg Art Award

2016    CCA Andratx Artist-in-Residence, Mallorca

2013    Soart, Artist-in-Residence, Millstättersee

              Studio Abroad at Český Krumlov, Federal Chancellery, Vienna

2012    CCA Andratx Artist-in-Residence, Mallorca

              Artist-in-Residence, Rome, Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture, Vienna

2011    Premium Outstanding Artist Award, Vienna

2010    Artist-in-Residence, Paris, Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts, Vienna

2006    Strabag ArtAward, Vienna

              Fohn Scholarship, Vienna

              Atelier Paliano, Vorarlberg

2005    Scholarship and Master School Award of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

 

The Angelika Kauffmann Museum in Schwarzenberg dedicated a solo exhibition to him in 2022.

 

COLLECTIONS (selection)

 

Vorarlberg Museum

Artothek of the Federation

Artothek of the Province of Vienna

Artothek of the cities of Dornbirn and Lustenau 

Strabag Art Forum

Bank Austria Art Forum

Ringturm Collection of the Vienna Insurance Group

CCA Andratx Foundation, Mallorca

Frac des Pays De La Loire, Carquefou

Susan D. Goodman Collection, New York

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