Overview
Petar Mirkovic
Photo © Petar Mirkovic

"Black, shiny surfaces, reflections, city lights, asphalt... are exciting to me, although separately they represent an assemblage of ultimately mundane elements."

The Serbian artist Petar Mirkovic draws. His pictures look like cool excerpts from an all too familiar Hollywood film. In reality, he stages his subjects meticulously: with protagonists, he stages his templates at night in a suitable setting. Photographers, lighting technicians and extras are part of this elaborate staging. In the studio, the resulting settings are transferred to paper in a slow process with the help of charcoal. Whether depictions of cars, yachts or the view from an aeroplane, the works appear at first glance to be undercooled black-and-white photographs, but are in fact pure drawings.

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Biography
Photo © New Moment agency / Belgrade
Photo © New Moment agency / Belgrade

Petar Mirkovic lives and works in Novi Sad, Serbia

born 1978 in Novi Sad, Serbia

 

graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad

as a student, he received the Academy’s Annual Award for Sculpture

 

2004 Mangelos Award of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade

2005 Henkel Award for Modern Drawing, Vienna

 

artist-in-residence at numerous institutions

including the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kiev

and Art Phalanx, Vienna

 

He continuously participates in numerous art fairs in Europe, Asia and North America, so that his work is presented to a wider audience in solo exhibitions, such as the Cité international des Arts Paris, 2004, or in thematic group exhibitions, such as the Künstlerhaus in Vienna, 2014.

 

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