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Caribbean Nights - Radenko Milak , 2025

Yugoslav , b. 1980 -

Watercolor on paper , 100 x 60 cm

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Radenko Milak. 15 November 1988. An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council, 2013

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Radenko Milak.

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Watercolor on paper painting by Radenko Milak

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Radenko Milak (*1980) is a wanderer between worlds, the worlds of painting on the one hand and the seemingly endless stream of images on the other. From the latter he selects his motifs and translates them into predominately black and white watercolors. They show events of the 20th century that continue to inform our present, multi-panel cityscapes of stunning size and detail, heroines of feminism or scenes from movies that made history.

Depending on the breadth of your own visual inventory, Milak's watercolors will often make you think "I know that image" and, like his depictions of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on 9/11, evoke additional images and feelings. Upon closer inspection Milak’s paintings also reveal his immense precision and mastery of the medium watercolor, a reference to his comprehensive training at the art academies of Banja Luka and Belgrade.

From January 17 to March 8 the Haus am Lützowplatz in Berlin showed „Post-Millennium Tension“, Milak’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany since 2014, which also lent its title (which in turn has been borrowed from Tricky’s 1996 album) to the present monograph. Recently published by Snoeck and edited by curator Max Dax it offers an unprecedented overview of the artist’s oeuvre to date. Browsing through it one soon recognizes that Milak is drawn to catastrophes, an insight that is likely related to both his first-hand experience of the war in Bosnia and the very fact that the last quarter of a century is a succession of crises and catastrophes.

At the same time the artist remains open to outside input and, as Udo Kittelmann explains in his essay, e.g. developed the series „Musical Transcendences“ with Max Dax. The series depicts key moments in music history since the invention of photography and reflects Dax’s as well as Milak’s deep knowledge and love of music. On the part of the viewer these paintings resound on both a visual and an acoustic level and evoke memories and emotions.

Against this backdrop „Post-Millennium Tension“ is a trip memory lane that triggers the collective subconscious and stirs up emotions, memories, sounds and feelings. Simultaneously it is a deep reflection of the image-based world and the truthfulness of images in the age of AI. A tremendous book and artistic oeuvre!

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