Nebojša Despotović, Little puff of wind, Solo Show, Exhibition view, Boccanera Gallery, Milano

Nebojša Despotović
Little Puff of Wind

A cura di / Curated by Giorgia Lucchi Boccanera

Boccanera Gallery Milano apre la stagione espositiva con Little puff of wind la mostra personale di Nebojša Despotović (Belgrado, 1982). Presentando gli ultimi e inediti lavori dell’artista serbo, si celebrano i dieci anni di collaborazione tra la galleria e il pittore che fin dai suoi esordi si è caratterizzato per un linguaggio figurativo ricco, enigmatico e magnetico.

L’artista è presente sulla scena artistica internazionale da oltre un decennio e ha ricevuto numerosi riconoscimenti per la qualità della propria ricerca pittorica. Il rapporto tra Boccanera Gallery e Nebojša Despotović è stato un percorso “mano nella mano”, in cui la galleria è cresciuta insieme al lavoro dell’artista che ne ha sposato la mission fin dalla sua nascita.

Il progetto espositivo nasce da opere appositamente create per l’occasione, in cui l’artista dimostra a pieno spettro la sua evoluzione espressiva. I dipinti selezionati si distinguono per un marcato e personale sguardo sul mondo psichico dell’autore: l’assenza di un’asse temporale e di una narrazione esplicita lascia spazio a interpretazioni poetiche nella costruzione dell’opera, attraverso la massima qualità ed espressività raggiunta dalla pittura dell’artista.

L’immediata narrazione ermetica che arriva all’osservatore diventa così un palcoscenico popolato da fantasie, ricordi, eventi ed emozioni vissute da Nebojša Despotović e tradotte in un linguaggio sensibile alla trasfigurazione formale dell’opera d’arte.

La presentazione di quest’ultimo ciclo di lavori, durato oltre un anno, è il frutto di una grande maturità pittorica, sedimentata attraverso anni di pratica, sperimentazione e ricerca, rispetto alla produzione presentata fino ad oggi, e che non va oltre il 2018.

Little puff of wind sarà quindi l’occasione per esporre in anteprima l’innovativa costruzione narrativa realizzata da Despotović, con quella vivacità ottenuta da una tavolozza di tonalità complesse e accese.

Boccanera Gallery Milan opens the exhibition season with Little puff of wind, the solo exhibition of Nebojša Despotović (Belgrade, 1982). By presenting the latest and unpublished works by the Serbian artist, we celebrate ten years of collaboration between the gallery and the painter who, since his beginnings, has been characterized by a rich, enigmatic and magnetic figurative language.

The artist has been present on the international art scene for over a decade and has received numerous awards for the quality of his pictorial research. The relationship between Boccanera Gallery and Nebojša Despotović has been a “hand in hand” path, in which the gallery has grown together with the work of the artist, who has espoused its mission since its birth.

The exhibition project is made of works specially created for the occasion, in which the artist demonstrates his well-rounded expressive evolution. The selected paintings are distinguished by a marked and personal look on the author’s psychic world: the absence of a temporal axis and an explicit narrative gives way to poetic interpretations in the construction of the work, through the highest quality and expressiveness achieved by the artist painting.

The immediate hermetic narration that reaches the observer thus becomes a stage populated by fantasies, memories, events and emotions experienced by Nebojša Despotović himself and translated into a language sensitive to the formal transfiguration of the work of art.

The presentation of this last cycle of works, which lasted over a year, is the result of a great pictorial maturity, settled through years of practice, experimentation and research, compared to the production presented until today, and which does not go beyond 2018.

Little puff of wind will therefore be the opportunity to preview the innovative narrative construction created by Despotović, with that kind of liveliness obtained from a palette of complex and bright shades.

Dates
23.09.2020 – 31.01.2021


Location
Boccanera Gallery Milano
Via Ventura 6, Milano


Artist
Nebojša Despotović


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Installation View and Artworks

Nebojša Despotović, Little puff of wind, Solo Show, Exhibition view, Boccanera Gallery, Milano
Nebojša Despotović, If I was given one moment, 2020, oil and acrylic on engraved wood, 30 x 40 cm. Exhibition view, Solo Show, Boccanera Gallery, Milano
Nebojša Despotović, Your Love keeps the gates safe, 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, 168 x 137 cm
Nebojša Despotović, Little puff of wind, Solo Show, Exhibition view, Boccanera Gallery, Milano
Nebojša Despotović, Our little picnic, 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 163 x 161 cm
Nebojša Despotović, Little puff of wind, Solo Show, Exhibition view, Boccanera Gallery, Milano
Nebojša Despotović, Other half of the sky, 2020, oil and acrylic on engraved wood, 50 x 60 cm. Exhibition view, Solo Show, Boccanera Gallery, Milano
Nebojša Despotović, Other half of the sky, 2020, oil and acrylic on engraved wood, 50 x 60 cm
Nebojša Despotović, Little puff of wind, Solo Show, Exhibition view, Boccanera Gallery, Milano
Nebojša Despotović, Wild and blue (Personal history), 2020, acrylic, oil, charcoal and ink on canvas, 210 x 264 cm. Exhibition view, Solo Show, Boccanera Gallery, Milano
Nebojša Despotović, Portrait, 2020, oil and acrylic on engraved wood, 35 x 26 cm
Nebojša Despotović, Letting it go (Prestami la tua luce), 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, 162 x 129 cm
Nebojša Despotović, Wild and blue (Personal history), 2020, acrylic, oil, charcoal and ink on canvas, 210 x 264 cm
Nebojša Despotović, Little puff of wind, Solo Show, Exhibition view, Boccanera Gallery, Milano
Nebojša Despotović, The Kiss, 2020, oil and acrylic on engraved wood, 35 x 45 cm
Nebojša Despotović, All my dreams are peaceful because of you (left) / Little puff of wind (right), 2020, oil and acrylic on wood, 60 x 50 cm each. Exhibition view, Solo Show, Boccanera Gallery, Milano
Nebojša Despotović, All my dreams are peaceful because of you, 2020, oil and acrylic on wood, 60 x 50 cm