Milena Dragicevic

I believe that painting is not about chasing that which has never been seen before; rather, it is the question of what is possible for the artist in any given moment. In order to confront painting one has to go through the process of moving formally and irrationally from the inside out and back again. (Milena Dragicevic)

Milena Dragicevic, born in former Yugoslavia in 1965, lives and works in London. 1992 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London. 1988 BA Fine Arts Honors, York University, Toronto.

Dragicevic’s recent series of paintings titled Erections for Transatlantica are unknowable, hovering assemblages or apparatuses that capture the passage of possible objects. They do not, however, suggest the gravitational weight of real sculpture, and are instead what the title suggests, erections or offerings. Dragicevic envisions Transatlantica as a place of origin.

Solo exhibitions
2011 Erections for Transatlantica, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna. 2008 Coloured Threads in Door Knobs, Pump House Gallery, London. 2008 Of Ants, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna.

Group exhibitions
2013 Dispari&Dispari Project, Reggio Emilia (IT). 2012 Recent British Painting, GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam. 2011–2010 British art show 7, Hayward Gallery, London; Tramway, Glasgow; Plymouth. 2007 The Order of the Present is the Disorder of the Future, De Hallen, Haarlem (NL).

Publications
Charlotte Mullins, 21st-Century Portraits, National portrait Gallery, London (to be published in May 2013). H. Amirsadeghi (ed.), Sanctuary Britain’s Artists and their Studios, Thames and Hudson, London 2012. Matt Price (ed.), Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon Press Limited, London 2011. The British Art Show 7, In the Days of the Comet, exh. cat., Hayward Gallery Publishing, London 2010.

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