Nemanja Marunic, Conformations
Gallery 73, March 2007.

Nemanja Marunic grapples with high artistic and spiritual challenge to explore the motives of the head. The exhibition named "Conformations" he gives us the opportunity to peek into the world of his experiments and achievements. His creative process is complex and highly-thought-out. It involves the use of artistic elements and procedures of the process conformation icon to calculating the physical engagement of the entire body.


In its infancy the performance of specific individuals, these works bear witness to the artistic and spiritual research in the quest for purity and sincerity of artistic expression, and expression achieved. They were successful pursuit of classical art module that makes the essence of the display head, best expressed in the achievements of Byzantine art. Papers Nemanja Marunic are very diverse - they do not constitute a uniform series of research on a chosen topic, but each of them the product of a new artistic and spiritual research procedure in which each new step in the development of advanced greatly.


Coloring them once rich and vibrant colors, sometimes reduced, earthy and rich in gold pigment, but always highly suggestive and expressive. By bringing us into the atmosphere from the urban to the screaming silence of the monastery bells hammers, some of these works will touch us, some scared, some laugh, some to encourage contemplation, reflection on human nature, the passage of time, eternity, life ... In some of them will be identified.
The artist chooses to present the work in the open gallery with their communicative wide area of full circle. Positioned in this way, the exhibited works are exciting, "forest" through which an observer passing through the gallery space, to find his path. This exhibition has been made an organism that interacts with the audience as it moves through it. On the way through the gallery works populated, the inhabitants of this "forest", visitors will have a surprise, it will be asked questions, offered knowledge, excited emotions. Just like breaking through a crowded street, the viewer will be exposed to a number of impressions and scenes that will lead to variety in it, it peculiar reactions, feelings and thoughts.


The exhibition is realized in its whole atmosphere of what words it is not easy to define. It is necessary to go through it, live it, be part of it at least for a moment. It is a journey through time and space, mood and spiritual states. Exhibition of works by Nemanja Marunic is visually, intellectually and emotionally stimulating and exciting experience for your visitors. "Encounter" with the exhibited works leaves no one indifferent observers.

Katarina Vasic,
Art Historian