Adapt to what we are surrounded by
The expression of these two authors is compatible for joint presentation, although both cultivate originality and uniqueness of artistic photography. “Photography, like all other arts after all, is primarily a matter of individual experience. My interest in this art is also the result of my desire to visually present how I ‘see – see’ things, nature, space and the people around me. And it all started with film art, as the most complex form of artistic expression, whose ability to combine different art forms into one – text, acting, scenography, costumes, photography, music – directly influenced the vision of life in photographic frames, “said Murseljevic. about his work. Robert Ivezić, says prof. M.Sc. at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, Lazar Pejović, deals with street photography, although this genre is not represented in our country. However, based on his works, one does not get the impression that the author is a foreigner in that, but vice versa – his action seems natural, even routine. Robert Ivezić “With casual self-confidence, he varies formal visual solutions, experiments with artistic elements, builds unexpected interactions and moods within the scene. With clearly recognizable historical role models, but armed with the postmodern non-obligation of the new street photography, Rober Ivezić does not try to build a concrete narrative framework through which a certain topic or subject would be elaborated. These photos are seemingly ‘nothing’, ie. about nothing concrete. And they were photographed somewhere else “, wrote Pejović in the text in the exhibition catalog… He added that Ivezić’s photographs complement each other in an elusive way, but also that through fluid interpretation he is realized in the best manner of the new street photography “which no longer tries to explain the world but to reflect in it”. Robert Ivezić And the inviolable power of photography also gives Damir Murseljević the possibility of a specific view of the world: “That one single moment, the 250th or a fraction of a second that you try to capture once, you kept forever,” he reminds. Murseljević is recognized for his photographs with multiple expositions that romantically displace people, situations and objects, and the artist goes on to say how he came to this: “Encouraged by work Man Raya, David Lyncha or Stan Brakhagea, as well as some videos from the golden age of MTV ’90, I started playing with multiple expositions on film. Moving people and situations from one place to another, from one time period to another, is a special challenge and results in characteristic ‘film’ fables, in which random actors are actually situational players of one time. The aesthetic play of colors and characters on the 35-millimeter strip can thus bring a completely new, different meaning from the initial one, and thus directly reflect the meaning of the work of art, through which personal emotions are woven. Although my micro cosmos in photographs often seemed abstract, it was essentially never that – there was always the fluidity of a plot underneath “, he points out and adds that this is the case with this setting as well. Damir Murseljević “The visual depiction of the collision of nature with urban environments in its own way reflects another important sociological role of art in the 21st century. Through this kind of symbolic creativity, and multiple exposures, nature warns of the consequences of sudden globalization and urbanization, and we can see this as an appeal that the time to come must be used to more adequately adapt to what we are surrounded by, “concludes Murseljevic.