On Tuesday, January 16th, at 7 PM, the promotion of the monograph of Branislav Bane Sekulić will take place at Petrović’s Castle.

The promotion will feature art historians Petrica Duletić and Ljiljana Zeković as speakers.

“Sekulić is a true master in depicting the tremulous and warm Mediterranean atmosphere. He builds that quivering handwriting from multiple layers of dotted structures, transferring the complexity of the creation of the work to the complexity of the content of each piece. The emphasis is on the brushstroke itself. Rhythm is one of the recognizable characteristics of Sekulić’s painting. We can call this type of rhythm sensual because it tends to a certain circular movement, synthetic dotted spreading without a privileged center,” emphasizes Petrica Duletić in her text.

Ljiljana Zeković highlights in her text that in Sekulić’s artistic opus, reality and premonition exist simultaneously as constants; the past – classical cultural heritage and contemporaneity/modernism and postmodernism – neo-impressionism pointillism, art nouveau, pop art, dadaism, cubism, organic abstraction, surrealism, metaphysical painting, magical realism; local and universal, hiding an enigmatic layer of his artistic quests (which, in a broader sense, reflect the image of reality).

“Exceptional mastery of the craft led to a research adventure in which, alongside neo-Divisionist optics, he formed his artistic expression through the sophisticated weaving of veils, refined tonal relationships, glazes, pastose layers of color, a combination of strokes, an extraordinary sense of materialization, thoughtful and balanced correlations of plastic elements (paintings, collages), free play of real or abstract forms, symbols and signs, disintegration and reintegration of formal content, and irrational luminosity.”

The monograph is published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Montenegro. The texts are signed by Ljiljana Zeković, Petrica Duletić, and Mladen Lompar, with the monograph editor being curator Maja Dedić. The team involved in the realization of the monograph includes Danica Bogojević, Teodora Nikčević, and Anja Marković. The photographs are credited to Jovana Vujanović, Duško Miljanić, Lazar Pejović, Radoje Jovanović, and Dejan Kalezić, while the design of the monograph is by Aleksa Tomović.

A reminder that the monograph accompanies the retrospective exhibition of the artist, open to the public until January 26, 2024, at Petrović Castle.