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Reviews, Critics and Appearances
In this section you can read some of the reviews and critics of Igor Bogojević's work, as well as some of his appearances in media such as magazines. Simply click the links below.
» Critic by Athina Schina (Greek Art Historian & Critic) - English | Greek
» Analysis by Prof. Patraskidis (an interpretation of Bogojević's work by his post-graduate professor, Prof. Triandafillos Patraskidis) - English | Greek
» A Gray Reflection (Igor Bogojević on New Review mag.) - English | Serbian
From Igor Bogojević’s work, which feeds on horses motifs, shines a conflicting character in the strife of forms with an expressionist breath. These forms deconstruct, contract and interweave themselves, presenting a reconstituted fermentation of tensions, which is absorbed and thus emerges from the space, which appears vibrant or circularly creational, like a vortex.
With violence and choler one unveils fields of horse bodies, along with skeletons that demonstrate a type of conflict and concurrent excitement of the characters that plastically compose the volatility of the ultimately abstract shape, which delivers, both in colors and in drawings, volumes and writings as a merging of a most universal transformation.
The heroic and the epic elements which characterize the rebellious and proud horses’ expression are identified with the tragedy within the slaughter of a sacrifice and of a holocaust, which opens the way for his light and his darkness to indicate the allegory of that conflict and dimension of its reformation.
Athina Schina
Art Historian & Critic
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Στα έργα του Igor Bogojević με αφορμή τα άλογα διακρίν ετα ι ένας εξπρεσιονιστικής πνοής συγκρουσιακός χαρακτήρας της διαπάλης μορφών που αποδομούνται, συναιρούνται και διαπλέκονται, παρουσιάζοντας μία ανασυγκροτούμενη διεργασία εντάσεων που απορροφάται και άλλο τε αναδύ ετα ι από τον χώρο, ο οποίος εμφανίζ ετα ι δονούμενος ή περιστροφικά γενεσιουργός, σαν μια δίνη.
Με βιαιότητα και ορμή αποκαλύπτονται τμήμ ατα σωμάτων από τα άλογα μαζί με σκέλεθρα που εκδηλώνουν ένα είδος σύρραξης και ταυτόχρονης αναμόχλευσης των στοιχείων που απαρτίζουν πλαστικά την εκρηκτικότητα της αφαιρετικής εν τέλει φόρμας, η οποία χρωματικά και σχεδιαστικά αποδίδει όγκους και γραφές ως σύμπλοκα μιας καθολικό τε ρης μ ετα μόρφωσης.
Το ηρωικό και επικό στοιχείο που χαρακτηρίζει την εκφραστικότητα των ανυπότακτων και υπερήφανων αλόγων ταυτίζ ετα ι με την τραγικότητα μέσα από τα σφάγια μίας θυσίας και ενός ολοκαυτώματος, που αφήνει χαίνουσες τις λάμψεις και τα ερέβη του να υποδεικνύουν την αλληγορία αυτής της διαπάλης και της αναμορφωτικής της διάστασης.
Αθηνά Σχινά
Κριτικός & Ιστορικός Τέχνης
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A swarming of lives – the impetuousness of horses, with their hoofs to the air and nostrils erected, is brought to life in Igor Bogojević’s exceptional drawings.
Bogojević makes use of the ink’s density and of his tracing with a particularly synthetical, agglutinative concern. He evinces an amalgamation of lives in moments where instinct gives room to the intrincacy of motion, and of vigour in forms displayed; it also opens up space to the faultless integrality of the horses and to the conflict revealed in their delinearment – an attribute that have inspired many artists from time to time .
Igor Bogojević successfully interprets place, color and plasticity, fragments, speed, the deterrence brought by the wielding of inks. The pleasant shades of grey help construct the particular , peculiar atmosphere which seems to entice the artist.
The coherence in the course of evolution of his work shall let anyone perceive its natural consistency and incontestable quality.
30-7-2004
Triandafilos Patraskidis
Painter
Professor at the Superior School of Fine Arts of Athens, Greece
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Τριαντάφυλλος Πατρασκίδης - Ελληνικά
Κοπάδια ζώων – αλόγων ορμητικά, με τις οπλές στον αέρα και τα ρουθούνια ορθάνοικτα ζωντανεύουν μεσ’από τα εξαιρετικά σχέδια του Igor Bogojevi ć.
O Bogojević χρησιμοποιεί την πυκνότητα των μαζών και της γραφής με ιδιαί τε ρο συνθετικό ενδιαφέρον. Παρουσιάζει συμπλέγμ ατα ζώων σε στιγμές που το ένστιτκο αναδικνύει την πολυπλοκότητα της κίνησης, της δύναμης των κορμιών, την σχεδιαστική αρτιότητα των αλόγων, και της συγκρούσης των μαζών τους, που κατά καιρούς ενέπνευσαν πολλούς καλλιτέχνες.
Ο Igor Bogojevi ć αποδίδει με επιτυχία τον χώρο, χρωματικά και πλαστικά, τον κονιορτό, την ένταση των μαζών, την ταχύτητα. Τα γκρίζα απαλά χρώμ ατα βοηθούν στην ιδιαί τε ρη ατμόσφαιρα που φαίν ετα ι να τον γοη τε ύει.
Υπάρχει συνοχή στην πορεία της δουλειάς του, στην οποία μπορεί να διακρίνει κανείς την συνέπεια και την αδιαμφισβήτητη ποιότητα.
30-7-2004
Τριαντάφυλλος Πατρασκίδης
Ζωγράφος
Καθηγητής της Ανωτάτης Σχολής Καλών Τεχνών Αθηνών
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A Gray Reflection
by Vanja Savić
Igor Bogojević, a postgraduate student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Athens, showed his talent to the world at a solo exhibition that was located in the hall of the Serbian and Montenegrin Embassy in Greece during the 2004 Olympic Games.
At the fifth exhibition in his career, eight of Igor Bogojević's big canvases were displayed in the hall of the Serbian and Montenegrin Embassy at Athens. He could be described as an expressionist painter, whose indisputable drawing sensibility is skillfully combined with solid deposits of colour. According to the artist himself, he takes such an approach to the medium because "the phenomenon and dynamics of movement can be best expressed in this way."
"By painting I want to subconsciously impose an expression of the current and rooted conditions in myself and to emphasise the difference between instinct and reaction. Therefore, my paintings are based on the motifs of a horse ready to transfer into the image of a human - with a sparkling tear in the human eye", Igor explained during his final exam in the class of professor Dragan Karadžića at the Faculty of Fine Arts in the Montenegrin town Cetinje in October 2002.
The freedom of movement in the paintins of the young academic painter is an expression of his emotional condition and instinctive struggle against the pestilence of the modern world. It is as if he wants to break off with tradition. Treating one of the oldest art motifs in pastel hues without much contrast, his oil paintings almost crystallize a new vision of time gone by and a search for its proper place in the time to come. By his virtuous application of the colour gray, Igor successfully interprets space, plastics, fragments and the deterrent power of life at moments when instinct takes control.
At last year's world competition Bogojević was awared a scholarship by the Greek government. He is currently a postgraduate student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Athens, where he studies under professor Triandafilos Patraskidis.
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Refleksija u Sivom
by Vanja Savić
Postdiplomac na Akademiji lepih umetnosti u Atini, Igor Bogojević, predstavio se samostalnom izložbom u salonu Ambasade SCG u Grčkoj, u vreme trajanja Olimpijade 2004.
Na svojoj petoj izložbi u karijeri, na osam velikih platna izloženih u salonu Ambasade SCG u Atini, Igor Bogojević se predstavio kao slikar ekspresionista koji svoj neosporan crtački senzibilitet vešto kombinuje sa tehnikom gustog nanošsenja boje, jer se, po njegovim rečima, "fenomen i dinamika pokreta na taj način najbolje izražavaju."
"Slikajući, želim da podsvesno nametnem izraz onih trenutnih i ukorenjenih stanja u sebi i da podvučem razliku između instinkta i reakcije. Zato se moje slike baziraju na motivu konja koji je spreman da ispusti ljudski lik, da u njegovom oku zaiskri neka ljudska suza", zapisao je Igor u oktobru 2002, obrazlažući svoj diplomski rad na Fakultetu Likovnih umetnosti na Cetinju 2002, u klasi profesora Dragana Karadžića.
Sloboda pokreta, na slikama mladog akademskog slikara Igora Bogojevića, predstavlja ekspresiju emotivnog stanja i instinktivnu borbu umetnika sa pošastima savremenog doba koje, kao da želi da taskrsti sa tradicijom. Obrađujući jedan od najstarijih motiva umetnosti u pastelnim nijansama, bez mnogo kontrasta, njegova ulja na platnu kao da kristališu novi pogled na vreme prošlo, i potragu za njegovim pravim mestom u vremenu budućem. Svojom virtuoznom upotrebom sive boje, Igor izuzetno uspešno interpretira prostor, plastičnost, fragmente i zastrašujuću silovitost života, u trenucima kada instinkt preuzima kontrolu.
Na prošlogodišnjem svetskom konkursu, Bogojević je dobio stipendiju Grčke vlade i trenutno je postdiplomatic na Akademiji lepih umetnosti u Atini, u klasi profesora Triandafilosa Patraskidisa.
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