Aleksandar Bašić

I am a Visual Artist working with adults and children as a lecturer and a teacher. My main skills are painting and drawing. My motifs are people, things and places that left impressions on me. I am working in a variety of styles; when creating artwork, I am not thinking about style but rather how and what I want to achieve. I am very much interested in “how things work” and I investigate this in some aspects of form, shape and colour. I find that there is more in essence of the things than in their appearance.

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Francis Bacon by Aleksandar Bašić, oil painting on canvas, 35.56 x 45.72 x 3cm, 2023 - 2026.

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Wifredo Lam, 35.56 cm x 45.72 cm, oil painting by Aleksandar Bašić, 2023 - 2026.

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Willie Doherty

Willie Doherty, 35.56 cm x 45.72 cm, oil painting by Aleksandar Basic 2024.

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Jean Michel Basquiat, 35.56 cm x 45.72 cm, oil painting by Aleksandar Basic

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Billy Childish, 35.56 cm x 45.72 cm, oil painting by Aleksandar Basic

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Frank Auerbach, 35.56 cm x 45.72 cm, oil painting by Aleksandar Basic

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Portraits on paper by Aleksandar Basic

This catalogue documents a series of portraits on paper by Aleksandar Bašić. The artist’s initial idea was to create a series of portraits

Portraits on paper (Catalogue) by Aleksandar Basic written by Luke Branca

About the Book

This catalogue documents a series of portraits on paper by Aleksandar Bašić.

The artist’s initial idea was to create a series of portraits of influential master artists, specifically those of importance personally. It then grew into something deeper, fusing past and present visual cultures.

Two key moments, early on in the project, included (1) a visit to Michelangelo’s house in Florence and (2) seeing Giacometti’s work at the National Portrait Gallery, London. The latter inspired Bašić to begin using a pictorial language that involved working with simple lines, shapes and colours. This early work sparked the series herein.

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Luc Tuymans, 35,56 cm x 45,72 cm, oil painting by Aleksandar Basic

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Peter Doig , 35.56 cm x 45.72 cm, oil painting by Aleksandar Basic

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Portrait painting of British artist painter Lucian Freud, oil on canvas by Aleksandar Basic

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George Condo, 35,56 cm x 45,72 cm, oil painting by Aleksandar Basic

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Marc Quin, 35,56 cm x 45,72 cm, oil painting by Aleksandar Basic

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Andy Warhol, 35,56 cm x 45,72 cm, oil painting by Aleksandar Basic

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Marlene Dumas, 35,56 cm x 45,72 cm, oil painting by Aleksandar Basic

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Georges Braque, 35,56 cm x 45,72 cm, oil painting by Aleksandar Basic

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOSBjZYQLWI&feature=youtu.be

Portraits & Seascapes is an exhibition of new works by Aleksandar Bašić and Luke Branca.

Both artists are known for responding to traditional fine art genres in highly contemporary ways. This is what brings them together for a third consecutive year at 5th Base Gallery.

Portraits of renowned artists, painted in bright colours, reflecting elements of their own visual language; this is the best way to describe Aleksandar Bašić’s latest works. Art history itself, the wonders and horrors of technology and a sense of mystery are important underlying subjects. The paintings conclude a long running series created over the past three years, with the more recent pieces showing a concentrated focus on colour and paint as a material.

Luke Branca’s new work is inspired by stories of the sea. He has merged his own artistic vision with ideas from art history, folklore and literature related to our oceans. The works selected for this exhibition are characteristically strange and enigmatic.

5th Base Gallery 23 Heneage Street Whitechapel, Greater London E1 5LJ

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Jenny Saville 35,56 cm x 45,72 cm, oil painting  Aleksandar Basic