This captivating contemporary artwork features a striking combination of organic shapes and vibrant colors. The central focal point is a deep, ruby-red agate nestled within a rugged, earthen-toned formation. The overall composition is asymmetrical, creating a sense of dynamic balance. The artist's skillful use of texture and layering suggests a geological, almost cave-like quality, inviting the viewer to explore the depths of the natural world. This piece likely draws inspiration from the artist's fascination with the beauty and complexity found in the natural landscape, offering a contemplative meditation on the interplay between the raw and the refined. ...
Vedran Kopljar constructs mental, visual, and physical obstructions to shape new spaces and possibilities of communication. He creates universes where feelings, ideas, or concepts such as ‘minority’ or ‘inner space’ take form in paintings, physical installations, or verbal performances. The communication between spectator (an ‘I’ object) and object of art is central to Kopljar’s work. This can result in didactic artworks that communicate on a poetic level, as well as objects and installations that address the challenges of representing an experience. Since only the illusion of experience can be represented, and not the experience itself, the yearning for the experience becomes the next best thing it can portray. Furthermore, he investigates the possibility of a reciprocal relationship with objects of art as equals. A multitude of influences—including the private world of adult thumb suckers, hentai imagery, John McCracken’s plank works, and the visual language of scientific illustrations—help shape these concepts. In his practice—which includes painting, video, performance, and words—Kopljar continuously searches for and experiments with different systems used to create meaning. For him, conceptualizing an art exhibition or playing a game of Remi (a variant of Rummy) are equally significant experiences in this quest for making more or less sense. Each action or interaction represents an opportunity to experience, reflect upon, and challenge specific sets of rules and formal processes. Both conceptual and existential, Kopljar’s works attempt to grasp and understand the underlying logic behind the construction of reality and the making of its norms and values. Kopljar has been investigating the plank works of the American minimalist John McCracken. He has been building a long-term and long-distance relationship with the planks, giving them different shapes, providing them with an inner life, and developing their personalities. This ongoing relationship serves as a metaphorical method for the investigation of object/viewer relations in general. ...
LambdaLambdaLambda was founded in 2015 in Prishtina (Kosovo) by Isabella Ritter and Katharina Schendl. It is the first and only international gallery for contemporary art in Prishtina working on a global scale. On a local level its aim is to provide artists and the audience with an intimate environment conducive to experimentation, discussion and learning, especially by bringing together international and local artists. The gallery represents artists of the young generation of Kosovar artists as well as artists from the Balkan-region along with artists from other geographies.
Over the course of one decade the gallery has successfully introduced a myriad of artists to a global audience which resulted in landmark exhibitions as well as acquisitions by important museums and institutions worldwide. LambdaLambdaLambda has earned a reputation for championing artists who challenge established socio-political narratives and for introducing artists with idiosyncratic artistic practices. ...
