It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the Zone of Abundance exhibition opening, to be held at Novembar Gallery on Thursday, January 13, 2022, at 6 pm.
Jovan Matić graduated and earned his master’s degree at the Ceramics Department of the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. His earlier, as well as more recent works reveal an inclination towards experimentation with materials and textures. The works that make up the exhibition in Novembar Gallery show that the artist’s mode of expression are an array of media spanning from canvas, across sculpture to mixed media installations.
Jovan Matić’s art is not an ethical footnote. The equally sensual dance of shape and form, a virtuous aesthetic canasta as much as it is also an impudent slap on the face to public taste, it is there to make us think… Can something be beautiful if it results from a criminal act? The answer is obvious to anyone who finds themselves in front of one of the gentle, pastel, for-social-network-promotion-suitable, skinned animal hides. Yes, the products of torture, testimonies of collective selfishness and chronic global unconsciousness can be pleasing to the eye. There is no need to hide shock and disbelief; ‘In the West Nothing New’ – exclaims Milica Grujić in the exhibition catalogue.
The exhibition will run from January 13 to February 13, 2022. Visiting hours: daily from 12 noon to 8 pm, except Mondays.
November Gallery, Kursulina 22, Belgrade
Artist’s Bio
Jovan Matić was born in 1996 in Belgrade. He earned both his bachelor’s and the master’s degree at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, the Ceramics Department. Since 2016 he has been actively exhibiting at many solo and group exhibitions in the country and abroad. He was the finalist of Private Values 2 held at the residence of the Swiss Ambassador in Belgrade. He participated in the University of Arts Summer School – ArtQuake, Kotor, Montenegro (2019), Marble and Sounds – World of Ceramics art show and Ceramics World Symposium in Aranđelovac (2020). In 2020 he was accepted as post-doctoral fellow at the Ishoken Institute in Japan. Since 2021 he has been part of the Canon Foundation Research Fellowship. His works are known to the local audience as he has exhibited in Belgrade and Novi sad, and he has also held exhibitions in Belgium and Turkey.
