ART EXHIBITION by Srdjan SEGAN: "DRAWINGS AND SCULPTURES"
Opening Reception Friday Feb. 4 (6-9 pm)
Artist Statement:
"In 1991, I became refugee in the former Yugoslavia. I
experienced war. And was without official status or
papers for ten years. So, to describe my practice, I
would also be relating my identification with being
"countryless". On many levels, my work is related to
the experience of war, displacement, questions of
necessity, and the search for and re-creation of
identity.
My previous and current work explores human body
movement and figural relation to space. In all of the
current work, whether sculptural or drawing, I am
reaching for a state before movement, to a moment
preceding decision or happening, when an organic mass
in tension is pushed to make a move. I am interested
in exploring body gestures and static movements as
language, and to present these in installation format
in a physically engaging scale, providing viewers of
the work with the potential of an energizing
interaction, and to involve them, in their act of
seeing, in the images' recreation.
I work mostly with clay, plaster, bronze, and charcoal
on paper. I like working in these media because they
allow for a very direct kind of expression. The marks
I make in charcoal, with coffee stains or clay are
retained quite indelibly after the act of creation.
The images I make are also constructed in a particular
way - that is, with fragmented and intuitive marks. This
is because for me, marks on paper or clay are both
symbolically and physically evident trails of
imaginative happening."
map and driving directions
43-32 22nd Street, Suite (buzzer) 301 in Long Island City, between 43th and 44th Avenue subway to 23rd Street, Ely Avenue
Artist Statement:
subway to 23rd Street, Ely Avenue
