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Morning in Mont Perri

IMAGINATIVE ORDEAL

Goran Rakic

ABOUT

The survival of the Art of Painting in contemporary realm depends on a combative personal excitement. Throughout array of personal moments in the making of a painted image, there are significant liberating impulses

The survival of the Art of Painting in contemporary realm depends on a combative personal excitement. Throughout array of personal moments in the making of a painted image, there are significant liberating impulses. They can be followed from the very beginnings of modern art and the ideal of freedom. Sensations made in such findings are now a heritage along painted surface and accentuated zones of visibility: toward vital transmission of the vital energy of its very origin. Processing the parts of the painting from this modernist pioneering age follows the strokes and traces, the chosen color range, as well as the expressive surprises. Its result a composition of a dynamic imagination is a finding of mobility of brushstrokes and layers. Celebrating those traces of freedom within the ever present obstacles of survival documents the upheavals that surrounded the original Modern age. Previous, as well as current historical period tells us about sense of society but not what these visions were made to do. They are a significant and precious inheritance of liberating forces of artistic struggle: areas where a wild imagination carries the disposition and interweaving layers, as well as the solitude. Visual compositions of such moves and color trends became - and now over one hundred and twenty years later - appear as a challenge to the endless search and emotions of a solitary creator. In the same way, they are a reverence of identifiers, a consolation and an energy reservoir of suspended tracks on the painted surface of the substrate for the observer himself. The freedom to move the boundaries of representation is well known task. It is nurtured by everyone for themselves, both as it were for Picasso or Matisse, as well as Kandinsky or Paul Klee, becoming an inevitable part of today’s painting alphabet of dreaming, vision and emotional strength. The impact of the past and the layered but also suppressed memory, as well as the unclear future, in the first decades of the last century, hasn’t changed now, tended to shift the author’s mode and will. How does the creator’s consciousness survive in renewed and different perils? Throughout economic, geopolitical and climatic devastation? In today’s localized wars, in continuous and exposed destructions and tiresome redefinings? Scope of themes and figurative reflections is for decades under the pressure of mass culture and an overload of information. Ironic effect embraces everything that became visible, as well as the knowledge itself: the world of spontaneously made painting a skill, follows the idea of progress and optical changes now ceased modernity and has grown into a separate notion. Experiences are united as a psychological phenomenon - a force of sequences. The skill of painted creation must be graded in the category of artist’s range of vision. Has this sharpening of the optical sight fulfilled our instinctive, physical reflexes of perception? Goran Rakić’s painting process merge as a withholding expressive category. Composition titles: “Circle”, “Some new charade”, “Remembrance of Sitonia”, “Rhythm of the city”, “Everything she wants”, “Summer day”, “Storm – a New beginning”, “Memory of the yard in Titova St.5 “ in their large formats and striking manner are also an active testimony proof of a daring and empowering painterly lifestyle. Goran Rakić’s painting process merge as a withholding expressive category. Composition titles: “Circle”, “Some new charade”, “Remembrance of Sitonia”, “Rhythm of the city”, “Everything she wants”, “Summer day”, “Storm – a New beginning”, “Memory of the yard in Titova St.5 “ in their large formats and striking manner are also an active testimony proof of a daring and empowering painterly lifestyle. The accordance of gestures and colour planes make the scenes appear as psychological polygons of their own inserted pictorial language. Through the patterns the passionate handwritten assembly embraces the painted surface. It seems that our surrounding world is affected in visible layers according to the tactility, as well as to the diffusive aftermath. Such depiction for the eyes of others is often implied as the spatial realm and vanishing cloudy elements, a burst opposed to the worldly indifference. Entanglement f making the painting may seem far from reality, but is moreover a life of a precious migratory track. Seems like the ancient upheaval, just like the Virgil made an epic poetry of the soul’s wanderings , there is a painters adventure and travel within studio as a powered heart of humanity. It is a range of temptations of the earth and through forebodings of unnameable force seen in impulsive brush gestures or colourful zones of remembering. Goran Rakic accomplishes adventurous painterly tasks as an escape where today it is more and more difficult to preserve both general and personal history. This path is an exploration of the nature of the phenomenon of observation “through layered matter”, shifting the static essence as a consequence of the mental experience of memory. Creativity could also be adjusted in time in a biological way. The ripening season of the 21st century encompasses a variety of crises and insecurities. Within the epidemic social indifference everything is taken for granted briefly as it instantly dissolves. Can we question what the making of one painting image, the surface inhabited by illusions and its pulsating parts? Is it a hidden meaning that invokes affective response? Likewise, reduced biological perceptibility and the contours of the remembered? The contradicting painted layers is imperative. Reflected is a colourful palette of phases and temptations of Goran Rakić’s painted compositions that capture attention with recognizable movements, but also with their indirect presentation. The completion of the image finds its meaning and its contemporary plot in canceling the logic of social reputation and reducing it to a mere expression. This was common as a proof of the ‘paintings of the new sign’ inside emergence of a ‘new image’. Such dynamism of observations was created in the art of the 1980s, almost four decades ago, whan Rakic appeared on exhibitions circuit aimed to prove the reversal of creative freedom. The color schemes, shapes and textures have a discretely excessive nature, and as such inhabit hybrid narratives of the intuitive imagination. They do contribute to the recognition of the repressed energy of the primordial, which, as a tradition that has captured us, brings us closer to the sublimation of mythical thinking. The titles of the paintings “Morning in Mont Perrin”, “Memories”, “Oasis” - are indicators of inputs of energy of dedication in observing a paintings realm. Rakić’s attachment creates a visual atmosphere in front of the viewer with the distinctive light and material imagination. These scenes surpass the discovery, not only of the property of what is in the painting, but also of cherished events in which the elusive subject or themes from a personal title meet a mesmerizing affective definition. The painter’s kaleidoscope of forms and experiences thus emerges as an alternative narrative of real life causes, as well as it’s consequences, given by his skillful power of confidence. Nikola Šuica

EXHIBITION WORKS

Everything she wants

Everything She Wants

Mixed media on canvas

200x140 cm

Some new charade

Some New Charade

Mixed media on canvas

180x180 cm

Return to Sorento

Return to Sorento

Mixed media on canvas

100x100 cm

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NEWS

upcoming-davor

Exhibition and Monograph Presentation

The Bomar Art Gallery and the Aleksić Gallery of Contemporary Art will present the project Playing with the Big Boys by artist Davor Dmitrović on June 12, 2026, in Novi Sad.

12th June 2026