Goran Djurović

Eric Min

The narrative paintings of Serbian-born artist Goran Djurovic (born 1952) delineate a dream realm in which reversals of fate, failed plans and epic embarrassments are revealed as the basic structure of everyday existence. Suspended in some territory between life and death, his crowds and groups of people seem on the verge of obliteration or enlightenment--or of simply waking up.

Actors and Watchers

Leonhardi-Museum (Dresden, Germany)

With delicate tones and succinct gestures, Berlin-based Serbian painter Goran Djurovic presents disturbing dream worlds in his figurative canvases, evoking the contradictions and presumptions of contemporary life. Paradoxical reversals, ironic caesuras and the blending of dissimilar realities create a visual philosophy of comedic failure.

Bernard Dewulf

Roger Pierre Turine

Musée Ianchelevici

Goran Djurovic (*1952 in Belgrade) studied painting in Dresden and currently lives and works in Berlin. His painting deals with irritating stagings that border on the absurd and possess a disturbing and at the same time magical appeal. The dramatically lit, stage-like architecture causes the protagonists to appear on a cool but not cold scene. The artist applies his sometimes dismal, sometimes humorous vision of a tragicomical existence to the canvas in several layers of paint. In doing so, he draws on the painting style of the Old Masters: numerous layers of paint lie under the actual visible surface. The white in the intermediate layers causes the light to radiate from within. In contrast to the early years, of late the artist has been increasingly working on large or very large-scale formats. These have been assembled for the first time in one volume. Exhibitions: Musée Ianchelevici, La Louvière, Belgium 18.11.2016-22.1.2017 - and further venues

Goran Djurović

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