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Triumph of the Virtues



Trotoar Galerija
12 May - 15 July 2023

Triumph of the Virtues - Trotoar Galerija

You know that stereotypical scene when a sorcerer or shaman digs through a collection of cards or notes in search of an ingredient that will solve a seemingly unsolvable situation?! With such determination and haste, Pavle Pavlović scrolls through the Internet in search of information and visuals that define or parody contemporary society. Selected artifacts of virtual jumble are then shamelessly opposed to painting as a traditional medium, incorporated into trippy visualizations on the border between reason and fantasy. On such quasi-idyllic intersections, the anachronistic worlds are clashing as historical-contemporary, analog-digital, human-transhuman, and serious-absurd. The question remains if those prominent artists and their timeless works are glorified or mocked by placing them in unfair comparison with characters from memes, movies, and games, endless and unnecessary but specific emblems of the steroid world we live in.

Starting from the cybernetic depths of clouds, through collage-painting approaches and digital manipulations, to the final performance in the traditional oil medium, Pavlović has an elaborate procedure for clashing painting tradition with kitsch and archetypes of popular (digital) culture. This mutates the familiar visual vocabulary from our screens into grotesque scenes that often humorously comment on the idea of human superiority. This is achieved through the apparitions of complex visual metaphors on the canvas’s surface. I consciously use the term “apparitions,” as the works mainly refer to the works and artists of late Gothic and early Renaissance painting in an effort to convey an atmosphere of supernatural providence. And just as those God-fearing artists used to mend the doctrine of original sin with their depictions of Biblical scenes, Pavlović triumphs over the virtues and traumas of life between the spiritual, the real, and the virtual.


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Men on the Moon

mountains-astronaut-diver-bluesky-painting

Oil on Canvas
225 x 170 cm
Haw

balcony-cat-chair-girl-painting

Oil on Canvas
40 x 30 cm
Kelly Family

bridge-family-river-dog-painting

Oil on Canvas
185 x 225 cm
Sinnerman

rabbitmask-landscape-suit-person-painting

Oil on Canvas
180 x 120 cm
Study XI

captainshat-mountains-muscles-jeans-painting

Oil on Canvas
40 x 30 cm
Study I

rubberdoll-face-clouds-suit-painting

Oil on Canvas
40 x 30 cm
Hula Hoop

girl-wall-hulahoop-tracksuit-painting

Oil on Canvas
40 x 30 cm
Untitled

gallery-headless-person-suit-painting

Egg Tempera and Oil on Canvas
50 x 200 cm
Hide and Seek

flags-room-mummy-lights-painting

Oil on Canvas
185 x 145 cm
Where Dark and Light don’t differ

attic-window-swimtires-swan-painting

Oil on Canvas
145 x 120 cm
Aura of Mystical Light II

horsehead-leatherjacket-hands-aura-painting

Oil on Canvas
40 x 30 cm
Study XI

tortilla-pancake-face-mouth-eyes-painting

Pigmented Spray Paint and Oil on Canvas
40 x 30 cm
Ekstra Sneža

desert-pigeons-people-dog-painting

Oil on Canvas
225 x 170 cm
Study III

arm-christmaspullover-hands-mountains-painting

Oil on Canvas
40x30 cm
Twins

darkclouds-sky-field-people-painting

Oil on Canvas
185 x 225 cm
Bakutaneri

grannies-bench-icesurface-sea-painting

Oil on Canvas
180 x 120 cm
Lil' Miss Butterfly

banana-balloons-head-clouds-painting

Oil on Canvas
100 x 75 cm
Study II

barrel-rubbermask-dress-sky-pavlepavlovic

Oil on Canvas
40 x 30 cm
Fab five

unicorn-balloon-disguised-people-painting

Egg Tempera and Oil on Canvas
150 x 130 cm
Condemnation

rubberdoll-abandonedbuilding-woodendoor-kittens-painting

Oil on Canvas
150 x 200 cm
Seven Samurai

mirror-woodenfloor-heads-toys-painting

Oil on Canvas
150 x 130 cm
Apparition of Pino Silvestre

clouds-person-rainbow-dog-painting

Pigmented Spray Paint and Oil on Canvas
70 x 60 cm
Study IV

pancake-tortilla-eyes-mouth-painting

Pigmented Spray Paint and Oil on Canvas
40 x 30 cm
Amanda

desert-crowd-dog-takeoff-painting

Oil on Canvas
225 x 180 cm
Measuring the World (study)

blackboard-drawing-student-shirt-painting

Oil on Canvas
40x 30 cm
Eden

rubberdoll-flowers-floor-face-painting

Oil on Canvas
130 x 160 cm
Lostland

gasmask-swimmingpool-child-flags-painting

Egg Tempera and Oil on Canvas
61 x 50 cm
Captain Cupcake

cupcake-arms-baby-sky-painting

Oil on Canvas
38 x 27 cm
Couple

fish-fox-person-suit-painting

Oil on Canvas
40 x 30 cm
Fab none

unicorn-balloon-wall-mannequin-painting

Oil on Canvas
150 x 200 cm
East

mirror-staircase-handrails-abandonedbuilding-painting

Oil on Canvas
185 x 225 cm
The wild Bunch

stuffedanimals-windows-abandonedbuilding-sunlight-painting

Oil on Canvas
185 x 145 cm
Aura of Mystical Light I

wrestlingmask-leatherjacket-hands-aura-painting

Oil on Canvas
40 x 30 cm
Study V

pancake-totrilla-gagball-eyes-painting

Pigmented Spray Paint and Oil on Canvas
40 x 30 cm
2023 © Pavle Pavlović
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