Chalk drawing on walls and blacckboards

Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia | 09.04.10 - 09.04.10

I understand the world through drawing. For me, it is a language and a tactics. My drawing looks like a grafitti or a caricature. It’s not. I hide under these popular forms of visual expression.

I make an intellectual caricature. In fact, a sort of compression. I reduce a film to a single close up. At this stage, it is also a political activity. Through my drawing, I express my views on society.

... Yes, I am involved in an activism of tolerance. Of the Other. Because I have this quality to compress a complex problem into something simple and straightforward, a sort of awareness. I believe that we live in an intelligent epoch and I impose this condition on my relationship with art. My drawing looks simple, but it isn’t. I make people laugh and frown immediately afterwards. I criticize the world, its manners, its beliefs, its stupidity and greed. But I criticize it in an empathic way. My humour is not dark. I draw in white and black but my humour comes in many colours.

(Part of the Interview realised by Ileana Pintilie, Febrary 2006, published first in online magazine ArtMargins)

Curator of the exhibition: Svetlana Mladenov ( Serbia)
Assistant curator: Ileana Pintilie ( Romania)