“Is this Aralica’s laconic wit that celebrates the easiness of life, escapism, or lightheartedness, or could it be a call for discerning a curtain which separates us from that which imparts meaning to our existence, and which beats, breaths, boils, and leaks independently from us? ”
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Gentleman’s Hat, H20 x W45 X D50 cm, Collection of the Zepter Museum, Belgrade (the author is not allowed to reveal the price).
About Aralica's Work
Usually, the place where I live at any given moment, with its daily routines, dictates the choice of my subject matter. As a rule, I am interested in the objects of everyday life, which appear to be surprisingly uniform wherever you go.
In my work, they unite collective and personal experience. I never recycle real objects in a manner of an assemblage, but rather present my own associative, monumentalized interpretation of their form. I choose medium, mode of craftsmanship, both of which suggest underlying narrative context, but also provide monumental quality of architecture.
My objects are reduced to a gallery format, but I see them as large-scale urban sculptures evocative of common human activities.
Djordje Aralica Live
“‘Traveling’ sculptures by Djordje Aralica, collages of archetypal images—allegories of traveling, transport a viewer into a realm of imaginary destinations. It seems that they themselves levitate in the intermediary space between being-here and being-there.”
Selected Recent Exhibitions
Solo Shows
Sound and Image Behind the Curtain
The Center of Contemporary Art, Center Gallery
Podgorica, Montenegro
From the Inside and the Outside
Gallery Atrium, Belgrade City Library
Belgrade, Serbia
Chain Loop
Galerija 73
Belgrade, Serbia
Studio Visit
ABOUT DJORDJE ARALICA
DJORDJE ARALICA was born in 1963 in Otočac, Croatia. He graduated sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, and received his doctorate from the Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Arts, Belgrade. He is a member of ULUS (National Association of Artists) and ULUPUDS (National Association of Applied Artists and Designers).
During his lifetime he resided in the U.S.A. and in several Mediterranean countries being exposed to various cross-cultural landscapes. Aralica often addresses the contradiction between the art of sculpture and the ephemeral context and the realities of the modern world. His artistic interest is the realm of inter-relationship between the classical artistic categories – sculptural form, medium, and physical space – with the spaces of individuality and culturality.
Aralica is a recipient of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant for the year 2019-20.
from an interview WITH dJORDJE
Q: How would you describe your style? How has it evolved during your career?
A: My approach to form, but not necessarily to materialization, is probably minimalist and purist. It has matured as a result of an intimate change regarding my understanding of art. Namely, I graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, which at that time, was a traditionally oriented school with a curriculum reliant on figurative art. It was only after I finished my studies, and moved to the U.S. that I acquired a different set of “art values” that I incorporate in my work.
Q: How do you approach your creative process?
A: My new projects are commonly site-sensitive. References to the gallery location – its built environment, mood, or history – often inspire my narrative. Thus, whereas my cycle ‘Cityscapes – BLOCK,’ recollects the forms recognizable in the modernist architecture of New Belgrade, my book sculptures refer to the historic location of the now lost National Library, which once stood just across the street from the gallery where I presented my show. The envisioned subject theme also determines my choice of medium, as I often count on its own metaphoric potential in building my narrative content.