Hello, my name is Vlada Mirkovic ,I was born in 1954 in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia and educated in Milanovac and Belgrade. Since 1989, I have been living and working as a free-lance artist. My paintings (over seventy five works) can alredy be found in private collections all over the world: in Holland, France, Switzerland, Norway, USA, Germany, England, South Africa. I had solo shows in Belgrade 1994, Gornji Milanovac 1995, Geneva 1996, Belgrade 1998, Cacak 1999, Kragujevac 2002, Arandjelovac 2009…
" The painting of Vlada Mirkovic is formed on the language of symbols and symbolic correspondences. It has a developed logical - linguistic apparatus, it's own internal mechanisms of operation, its relationships, addressed messages and hidden laws. For years fixing a world of symbols, a type of symbols, Mirkovic not only created an enclosed, completed, parallel and separate reality, but the completeness and perfection of the mechanics of that reality point out the fact that, like Renaissance masters, he is dealing with one subject and painting one picture in variations, amplifications and redefinitions. In the chaos of quick changes, transposed poetics ,artistic abdications and negations, Mirkovic's iconic faith in the painting, his ability to surrender to it, to devote himself to it and to discover it in it's higher manifestation is imposing. That monastic, Robinsonian devotion has it's guarantee and meaning only in it's outcome, in the painting, in Mirkovic's universe, with it's foundations calmly resting on deep layers and meaning of symbols."
Dejan Djoric, art historian, from monography :" In Search of lost Time"
Image: me in my studio
I took part in several group exhibitions :
- In 2006 and 2007 I participated in project Regard Fantastique, organized by ‘’S.A.F.I.R. Societe des Arts Fantastikue, in Paris
- Starting in 2007 I had participated in project
L’ange Exquis , Être Ange,Etrange,with painting « ALEPH »,195x162,2006. More then 15 international artists took part in the exibition as well. - Ange Exquis: Etre Ange , Etrange /exhibition in Saint Germain de Angles / 2007, March – April
- With the same group of artists I participated in exhibition:
‘’Ange Exquis – Sedan’’ , as part of the “Salon d’art Fantastique, CHIMERA – 2007’’ /October – November - COMPARAISONS, Paris 2007 – project ‘’Exclamation’’ with painting “A Past and Future Secret” ,180x60, 2007,November
- Ange Exquis: Etre Ange , Etrange/ Rosny sur Seine, exhibition in “Hospice Sant Charles’’ /2008, January – February
July –August: Chaumont – Chapelle des Jesuites
September – November : Viechtach (Germany)
Exhibition ‘’Figuration Critique” Lion 2008 ( I participated with 1 painting : David Goldstein in his Library – 81x65 .
I also took part in new book project ‘’Imaginary Realism” 2008-2009. Book title Imaginaire I, edition Brusen &C.A.I.I.R/I.F.R. – Denmark (Images of paintings “Aleph”,195x162, and “Fallen ,or scream of the Buterfly” 195x162 were printed in the book)
- COMPARAISONS, Paris 2008 – project “Divine Comedy” with painting “Divine Comedy”, triptich, 255x130
Viroflay – "A l'Ecu de France" Gallery (F) December 1 – 26 peanting, Fallen, or scream of the butterfly
2009
- Piombino (LI) - Galleria Comunale di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (I) April 4 - May 3
- Firenze - Galleria Renessans (I) May 9 - June 6
- Vascoeuil Castle - Art center (FR) June 27 - September 20
Bibliography :
-Vlada Mirkoivic, the paintings : In the search of lost time
Beograd : SAGA T.S.T., 2005
63 pages,28x23cm
-Imaginaire I, « Drimscape3 »
Denmark 2008,Edition Brusen & FANTASMUS-ART
148 pages, 31x22 cm
-Regard fantastique
Editions SAFIR, Societe des Arts Fantastiques
Paris 2006, 58 pages, 30 x 21cm
-Ange Exquis: Etre Ange , Etrange
Libellule Ltd. Publication 2007
70pages, 26x21cm
-Comparison 2007 & 2008
Castadiva, Editions D’art,21x21cm
-Dreamscapes 2010
Contemporary imaginary realism
Re-art Imaginary Editions
-Dreamscape 2013
Contemporary imaginary realism
Re-art Imaginary Editions
"...Vlada leads us into universe which could be the one which Alice found beyond the looking-glass…Maybe, Vlada brings us there to give privilege of seeking the truth contained in his symbolism, in many ways as Lewis Caroll did...The intelligence of the artist is to hold our hand and reassure us , as he leads us along his pictural path, much as Dante did before him…"
Benoit Junod, one of the greatest Ex Libris collectors in the world
Mysterium Magnum, oil on canvas, 195x162cm, 2015. for sale
Fallen, or scream of the Buterfly, 195x162cm , 2008. sold in Germany
Aleph, oil o canvas, 195x162cm, 2006. sold in Germany
El Conquistador, oil on canvas, 65x54cm, 2004. sold in Germany
The last Kingdom, oil on canvas, 81x65cm, 2013. sold in Germany
The Alchemist (one of the four versions) ,oil on canvas, 81x65cm, 2013. sold in Germany
The Alchemist (one of four versions), oil on canvas, 81x65cm,1999. property of the artist
Genesis , triptych, oil on wood, central panel 12x9 cm, wings 10x5cm, 1998. property of the artist
Anatomy Lesson, oil on canvas, 81x65cm, 2015. for sale
The First Day, oil on canvas, 81x65cm, 2014. for sale