UN-KNOWN is a path between two opposite aesthetic models, themes of reflection on art for over a century.
The “KNOWN” represents what is identifiable in the world around us, and is immediately understood.
The figurative painting of Davide Serpetti (Italy, 1990) in fact, through his modern “heroes”, often celebrities, leads the viewers to identify themselves within his narratives. Serpetti builds a more instinctive, animalistic and wild world around the hero, an indelible memory of his adolescence spent in the Abruzzo countryside.
Even the artist Roman Đuranović (Montenegro, 1969) uses human figures as the central theme of his work, and he examines the relationship between a man and a woman in his narrative. The installation is presented as if it were a comic book, a sort of story proposed in small visual fragments.
Riccardo Gusmaroli (Italy, 1963) with his whirlpools of paper boats reproduces imaginary journeys with impossible routes, which is a result of associations, feelings and connections that come from the same materials. A calculated musicality is represented by the waves of folded paper in the form of objects related to the theme of travel, where research ranges from the concept of lightness to the relationships of light and shadow, full and empty, action and no action.
The “UN” is what is not perceived immediately, it is an expression of concepts and ideas, with an often incomprehensible aesthetic result.
The well-known artist Gordana Kuč (Montenegro, 1970) bases her work on the concept of identity. All her works have their own singularity, just like persons, and we can recognise our desire for life or for self-destruction, Eros and Thanatos, in each of them.
The minimalist Vesko Gagović (Montenegro, 1963) with his monochromes analyses contemporary society through its status symbols. The geometric works painted with the most conventional pictorial language allude to abstract painting as an expression of high modernism, examining the chromatic aspect in an analytical manner. In the “Odyssey” project, presented at the 58th Venice Biennale, the artist was inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey”, and the project transforms an illusion into reality. The monolith has represented the highest human ideal since ancient times, which has always been a source of inspiration of reaching the limits, defying the law of gravity, rises towards the celestial peaks of the human spirit.
