New Work: Miroslav Antic

The Creiger-Dane Gallery will be showing the new paintings of Miroslav Antic from May 3rd to May 27th. We will have a reception for the artist on Friday, May 5th and 6th at 8 pm. Gallery hours are 10 am to 5:30 pm, Tuesday through Saturday, or by appointment.

Known for work of exceptional visual and conceptual intricacies, Miroslav Antic"s current work continues to seduce his viewers into an unconscious dialogue about the nature of painting.

In Antic's current series, super-realist raindrops lay lightly spattered over interior views of famous European palaces. Antic spares no detail in painting the spacious and luxurious rooms, complete with vast archways, columns, winding staircases, statues and fine architectural detailing. Employing his incredible skill with paint, Antic depicts breathtakingly beautiful scenes that have immense spatial depth, as well as a subtle sense of light and stillness. Antic is able to impart these paintings with an air of mystery and times long past, as they seem to exist in quiet perfection with nothing out of place and nobody in sight.

Antic paints in numerous and varied layers, which serve to obscure and somewhat mask these far distant views, forcing the viewer to visually and emotionally search his works. One tries desperately to see clearly what literally recedes into the picture plane, as well as metaphorically into the past. Illusion and beauty, mainstays in the tradition of painting, play a vital role in Antic's work. But choosing not to rely on these attributes alone, Antic instead employs these skills to lure the viewer into searching his work for insight into the nature of painting. While realistic and skilled, the works are also abstracted and obscured; they contain a great deal of illusory space, and yet have raindrops painted on top which reinforces the flat picture plane; although imparting a wonderful sense of light, the works are mostly monochromatic. Always beautiful and skilled, Antic's work nonetheless holds even greater rewards beyond the purely aesthetic for those willing to question.

If you are interested in any of these works, feel free to email geeta@creiger-dane.com.

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