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If this city has at least a little cosmopolitan spirit, if there is something
that makes it great, apart from a million things that make it small and provincial,
it is the fact that some of its inhabitants are people like the author of
these drawings.
He knows cars, down to the last screw, ("...he definitely knows most about
cars in the whole city. I realised that when he told me the name of the seat
cover brand of the car that was last made 30 years ago." - said an acquaintance
of the author's). He has an exquisite drawing and construciton talent.
When he's drawing these pictures, he does it like a plotter (he can draw a
car blindfold - as witnessed by many). Quickly, confidently, lines chasing
one another. All models exhibited here were made in c. 20 seconds ("He's a
serious professional. We had thought he was some amatueur who does it as a
hobby, like you'd told us" - said, astounded, two renowned German industrial
designers when we showed them these drawings).
He took part in a car design competition just once, back in 1990. The prestigious
German car magazine had published a tender for a small car design, and the
author of these drawings won the first prize (the drawing contained a coffee
smudge - he couldn't be bothered to draw it again - and on the photograph
of the award proclamation, you can see the Citroen representative, holding
a small paper with a big smudge). The award was a one and a half month pracitce
at the Volkswagen design bureau. The address he had given when entering the
competition was his grandparents' country house, where he only went once a
year - and the next time he visited, they told him "...there's a letter for
you from abroad, it's arrived six months ago...". He was supposed to send
them his personal photograph and information, in order to be called upon officially.
"No way', he said "I'd have to speak English the whole time, or even worse
- German that I don't even know..." He didn't go. Nor did he send his drawings
to tenders again. ("I tried once and was 100% successful. That's enough."
- he says.)
Apart from cars, he draws yachts and ships (his graduation work at Architecture
School was a project of a cruiser; he only passed in second go because the
first time around he had overlooked his name on the list and was surprised
when his friends later informed him that he had missed his chance). He draws
airplanes, trains, furniture. Everything he draws, he knows in detail. I've
recently asked him "How many books have you read?". "I have no idea - maybe
over a thousand; I used to read more. In high school I would read over 150
books a year, now I don't have the time. When I do, I read SF only."
He used to work as night watchman for ten years, and during the day, he'd
work with us ("...I'm the only man in the world who considers going to work
the end of his working day.") Now he has a regular job that he doesn't like
much, because it has nothing to do with the things he's interested in. "People
like him earn millions in the West" - said an excellent artist about him.
He also works on a multitude of other projects, sometimes day-in day-out,
like a bee.
"I'd like to live by the sea and go fishing. Somewhere where boredom is the
main cause of death." A man of the world.
(Drawings were presented by Skart group in July
2004. on "Collections and Acumulations" exhibition in
SKC, Belgrade, as a part of The
Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists 2004. Author of the whole exhibition
was Vladimir Tupanjac, and other participants were: Aleksandar
Zograf, Ivana Klickovic, Kosmoplovci,
Mileta Prodanovic, Sasa Markovic Mikrob
and Milos Tomic).