Time
The cycle of photographs Time by Delević Vukašin is the work of an artist who has been searching for a new challenge in the field of black and white art photography for many years. The series of exhibits contains several themes: landscape, imaginative ambient architecture and portraits, and indeterminate human figures.
Landscapes are photographs of fog, water, and celestial space, with a main theme of an anthological character. In them, attention is expressed to reveal the essence, and not the exterior decor, to find prototypes and not the reproduction of the visible. These searches introduce the holder to a state of "onirism" (waking sleep) from which emotion and poetics are recognised. The magic of these dreams is achieved by skillfully combining shots and an extraordinary sense of a kind of "collage procedure".
Starting from real forms of architecture, blended into often recognisable ambiences, the artist repeats motifs - frames, making their extension in space visible. This procedure creates boundary lines, and the form becomes fluid and dynamic. By a special procedure - light-dark, and in a nuanced tone, they "show" the space, without using the means of a formal perspective. To create an atmosphere of mystique, a half-tone was retained, which makes the space's dimensions feel unreal.
By capturing real prose of life, the artist inserts human figures with clearly marked portrait lines and figures that are only facts of existence. By showing us the layers of events and time, and scratching them from the surface to the bottom, the artist manages to materialise time and space. The woven figures, sometimes with exact facial features, create a sensation, but most of them are just ideas - emblematic beings, with the help of which events and time are recognised. Delević's play with forms is not arbitrary and is not a search for pure beauty, but an expression. Not accepting any established path, he chooses freedom, considering it unacceptable to limit himself by presenting the real, but it is implied in his work. From the very beginning, Delević creates an illusion because he strives to convey the experience as it is in his imagination.
Slobodan Jelić,
Art historian
Time 1. Digital C-Print from analog negative. 2013.Time 2. Digital C-Print from analog negative. 2014.Time 3. Digital C-Print from analog negative. 2015.Lake. Digital C-Print. 2019.Chinese Dragon. Digital C-Print. 2018.High Seas. Digital C-Print. 2019.The First Snow. Digital C-Print. 2018.Noon in Lazarevac. Digital C-Print. 2020.Crossroads in Pančevo. Digital C-Print. 2021.Stairs. Digital C-Print. 2021.Traffic. Digital C-Print. 2021.Above the Clouds. Digital C-Print. 2018.Self-portrait. Digital C-Print. 2018.Alps. Digital C-Print. 2021.Paris. Digital C-Print. 2023.The Clouds of Budapest. Digital C-Print. 2021.Danube Park. Digital C-Print. 2021.Sky. Digital C-Print. 2018.Crossroads. Digital C-Print. 2020.The Bridge. Digital C-Print. 2021.