Drasko Boljevic

The Völklingen Ironworks flooded in red light
Copyright: Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte | Oliver Dietze

Drasko Boljevic Picture by Valeriu Campan

Drasko Boljevic Picture by Valeriu Campan
Copyright: Valeriu-Campan

Born in 1969 in Zagreb, formerly Yugoslavia
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia

Exhibitions

Werke

He Who Wants to Be Fed

Series: I Live Across the Road from the Future

Drasko Boljevic 1

Drasko Boljevic 1
Copyright: Drasko Boljevic

Date

2021

Dimensions

198 x 168 cm

Material

Acrylic paint, canvas

Description

Born in Zagreb in 1969, Drasko Boljevic is presenting five works from his series I Live across the Road from the Future. His motifs here are not infrequently violent and disturbing, sometimes taken directly from Hieronymus Bosch’s late medieval visions of hell. Like a set of building blocks, the individual elements can be recombined, producing connections between the images. For example, the advance guard of the plague of rats from The Rise of the Ratus is pictured in He Who Wants to Be Fed, and the hovering girl who recalls a scene of an exorcism, but who reminds the artist of the Greek goddess of the night, Nyx, floats through various constellations. One unique feature of Drasko’s works is playing with anamorphotic effects. This challenges the viewers to find the right angle from which the motifs appear to be standing in space as 3-D illusions. The former sculpture student has thus preserved his sense of the spatial even after moving to Melbourne in the early 1990s and dedicating himself to stencil painting.

 

The Companionship
2021
Acrylic, canvas
180 x 180cm

Nix Levitating Among Hypnos and Acolytes
2021
Acrylic, canvas
198 x 168 cm

The Rise of the Ratus
2021
Acrylic, canvas
152 x 215 cm

Nix Levitating
2021
Acrylic, canvas
152 x 152 cm