Cinema Balkan, Braće Jugovića 16
On Friday, June 28th, at 5 p.m. at Cinema Balkan, a guided tour of the exhibition NATURALIS (vol 1) by artist Boris Lukić was organized.
Due to public interest, the exhibition has been extended until Sunday, June 30th.
Working hours:
Thursday-Friday: 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
The exhibition presents an overview of years of work and includes paintings, watercolors on handmade paper, sketchbooks, and preparatory series of drawings through which Lukić showcases his dedication and passion for classical painting techniques. It also introduces us to the details and intimacy of the studio through objects and the ambiance surrounding him. The method that Boris applies, with its persistence, repetition, and attention to the workspace’s cleanliness, turns his studio into a clean, organized laboratory, ensuring the stability of his works and processes.
In the exhibition catalog, which features a commentary written by another painter—Nemanja Mate Đorđević—under the format painter on painter, a review of the themes Lukić explores in his series, such as The Body (or Revelation), Flora and Fauna (Woman-Skull-Anima), states:
“If we call his creation a feeling or awareness, we will soon discover that he stretches his methods over strings of a pre-prepared field—read, imagined, or foreseen—attempting to place us beyond a conditioned understanding of his own themes. This distance from the theme appears like a threat, yet it functions as a seemingly chaotic but meticulously crafted imagination, teasing us on the edge of dream, wakefulness, reality, fiction, and depiction…Thus, the canvas interprets a subtext, its own edge and articulation, marking the craft of the artist and its consequences through textures or imprints. The painter transforms his ‘edge and form’ of stroke into ‘detonation!’ Into the infinity of rhythm, leaps—margins—pauses—saturation—immersion of movement or baptism. It is precisely this brush of Lukić’s that manages to untangle knots that are not only evident on the canvas but also, in these sentences, claim their toll with their inflammatory tone.”
Biography
Boris Lukić was born on February 27, 1985, in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), and has been living in Novi Sad (Serbia) since 1998.
He graduated from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in 2007, and completed his master’s degree in 2015, specializing in painting. Lukić became a member of ULUS (The Association of Fine Artists of Serbia) in 2008 after graduating from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.