AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN COLOURS
7 – 21 May
Dragan Stojkov is currently one of the most distinguished Serbian painters. Owing to his life and creative vitality, he occupies a prominent place in the art scene spanning the second half of the 20th century to the present day. Persistent and dedicated to his artistic profession, he has gone through several painting phases and challenges in his search to convey the spirit of the times he illustrates in colours.
As it is widely recognised, it is almost impossible to describe a painting, and if we wanted to do exactly that and tried to depict Dragan’s painting process, then it would encompass a contemporary view of the world wrapped in the beauty and principles of classicism. His extensive, rich and invaluable work offers classical portraits or compositions of colours and geometrical shapes frequently decorated with stone arches resembling space maps of scattered celestial bodies. Dragan Stojkov is a respected man with valuable paintings which present a lasting testimony of a time and us in that brief blink of time. It is Dragan’s and our autobiography in colour.
Academician Dušan Kovačević