Each
work presented on this site was created during the period from
1994-2000, in the conditions of interminable crisis, which befell
nations of Yugoslavia. The works of the artist Zivko Grozdanic
are characteristic documents of the energy of the individual,
who wasn't reconciled to the political, ultra nationalistic and
enthropic strategies of the regime, which had come into being
with the disintegration of the Yugoslav cultural space. Objects,
installations, sculptures are artistic documents made in the atmosphere
of the crisis time, in which the tension is reflected reversaly
and the energy of behavior arises from the activities directed
towards the creation of the artist image who doesn't wait passively
to see what will happen around him.
The artist introduces the term "ALLEGORIES" as the fundamental
principle, as contrast between two elements in which one of the
elements is always an allegorical supplement. This fundamental
principle is the mental image of the artist, contrast between
different substances and conditions, psychological and existential,
such as the tension, strain, danger, fatalism…
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