Fluctuation

Predrag Popara

Acrylic and oil on canvas

80 x 80 cm

On Request

The paintings of the series entitled The Dynamic Creation represent an intense personal attempt to attune to and express an aesthetic and thematic disjuncture. Predrag Popara’s fluency in the fragmentation of optical and colorful consistencies produces a re-emergence of hidden structures. It comprises traces of brush-stroke, and the drip and density of color areas, as well as performative acts transmitting gestural lines and textural inventories. The method was the signature style, however, of that exploration of the significant post-war events that constituted life’s utter devastation. Many of the goals of late modernist painting can be located inside the lost realm of those bygone times, when the painter’s attitude toward the liberating powers of the media made a strong contribution to Art’s grasp of everyday events. Such well-known, now historical representational practices are engaged quite differently in the aftermath issues of painting as a contemporary visual art phenomenon, especially with the turbulences and shattering of image-making that date from the beginning of this century. There can be no doubt, moreover, that the implosive powers of The Burning Island series are more markedly different in view of the autonomy of their maker’s personal experience. This distance between the individual’s stance and the change in global societies offers an intuitive comprehension of the whole, as well as of the technological and living systems functioning in this latter age of advanced cognitive sciences and social discrepancies. The peripheries of these systems and their functioning rely upon a state of affairs presenting challenges of the utmost gravity: repressed truth and multiple banalities of myriads of globally produced images, sprawled over every second of the day. These are mere incidents and random gestures, manifestations of the changes of a fluid culture. The consequences of the conditions and insecurities of contemporary life remain as mere modes of survival. The current dystopian over productive aftermath flows from the concluding effects of modernist beliefs. Notions of social and personal perceptual aims are interwoven with the unusual vitalism of which each of these colorful tableaux offers examples, regardless of format. The sense of the bursting forth and interpretation of suggested and possible forms triggers Popara’s personal reflections on contemporary art - a specifically time-based art - and our present time. Funnel Contemporary Gallery Contact: popara.funnelcontemporary@gmail.com