summer break

The wizard returns to Avi and works a little bit on his podcast (not publied yet)...
See you in august.
Cheers
Dzenan

Werner 09

One day!

All mans were born good,
it is the life and the society,
who makes them bad, ugly and angry,
but not the birds!

The other bird - A turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)

The other bird - wood sculpture
R 32cm
Meleagris gallopavo, commonly known as the Wild Turkey

The wooden - duck - the Anatidae family of birds

wooden duck

R 31cm

New interesting links/follows

Halo everyone,
if you scroll down my blog, on the right side you will find my interesting links (some friends and some stuff I think it is quite good). Now I have adjust two more - it is an audio podcast made by Annik Rubens and it is called Schalflos in Muenchen (in German language). If you click on the link (name) you will get to the blog - SIM.

Than there is also their new and very ambition project - a vieo podcast - ERSATZ-TV (in German language also) - so check it out and have fun!

Cheers
Dzenan

Again touristic season

new media - graphic

A3 - format

Memo

Hi... I made long time ago (in cooperation with a friend of mine - Arnela Mujkanovic - maybe Kulasic, very soon) 2 paintings for the catholic church - to see the image where it is now click here ....
It is funny but hurts sometimes that you make something and than you found it on interent without any mention of your name :(

The site is here

It is also strange to try to google yourself - because I for example have found an article where a woman (the writer) use some of my words from my blog for the interview with a performance artist and friend of me Ervin Babic - to see the article in bosnian/croatian language - click here
By the way this writer was a pro because she has mention my name and my blog :)

I mean if anyone use anything from my blog or post any photos of my artworks should mantion my blog, my name etc!!!!
It sucks...

Cheers!

Swans, genus Cygnus

Yesterday was a very long and rainy day and still when you have this wanting to do something, you just do it (mostly), so yesterday between 9am and 18pm I made this little wood drawing, a very strange L.A. swan.


Title : L.A.Swan
Wood-drawing (bas-relief)
R 40cm (h:82cm, v:79cm)

Homepage problems solved!

My homepage - it works again!!!
It was a problem on the main system server of funpic!

Thank you dear funpic people for repairing it so fast!

Homepage - ERROR

Halo to everyone,

my homepage (at funpic.de) does not work at the time :( and the displayed reason / error is:

No suitable nodes are available to serve your request.

The whole funpic (other sites) has the same problem...
Unfortunately my account there does not work ether at the time, so it may take a while before I figure out why, so I ask you for patience and apologize to all people who wants eventually to see it.

Best regards and cheers,
Dzenan

"Maxi" Newspaper / Sarajevo

From the newspaper "Maxi" here in Sarajevo (the article and the detailed photo below), about the Exposition "Salon mladih"(click the image to see jpg from the catalog - it is the catalogue on the left side)...

It is quite funny - in the article they write mostly about the people / artists who has won the price (it was 7 people / artists at all), but than on the photos from the exposition you can see actually only the 2 of the people / artists who has won.

I am happy, because they put my photo even when I have not won the price (it is a symbolic one, a written paper - diploma alike). and my papa is also on the photo :). Between us is the artist Meliha Teparic who makes great calligraphic artworks.. In the main title it is written "Prices for young artists"...

I am curious about the article that will be printed in the next two weeks about me in "Maxi" - (I gave an interview), so we will see how it will be (Dzenan the conservator) ;)

Cheers...

Like the greeks

"The Spartan-Hiram-King"
Sandstone (dark) - small size one - about 20 kg

Finally stone-sculptures again

I finally have build me a place to continue working on my sculptures again, and here are they - the place and the first results...

"Babuška"

Sandstone - smal dimension, about 40kg

Bosnian life is an unwanted mandala

“Bosanski život je neželjena mandala“

(Bosnian life is an unwanted mandala)

a Performance developed and made by Dženan ŠEHIĆ

With this performance idea I have applied to ZVONO (see their website for details) and I did not want to relief any details about this performance on my blog before, but after almost 4 weeks since the application deadline is over I have decide to show it to you– In my opinion it is one of strongest artistic ideas I have ever head and it is a rare one I actually do like!

Before continuing to read you should inform you a little bit about the meaning of a MANDALA. The mandala form and their traditional meaning I used to compare with is an old version of a Tibetan mandala where the monks build their mandala just to destroy it - to become aware of their existence and their own passing by.

To be really aware a student monk should build and destroy 1000 mandalas! I say that the Bosnian, or Balkan life (even actually everyone's life in a way) have been an unwanted mandala. Whatever you do it will be destroyed one day and in the Bosnian life in the past few generations it was mostly twice destroyed during their life's! We, the people from Balkan are aware of our passing by and our existence!

To symbolize this I choose to build a mandala that represents a Bosnian carpet with one different s – in the middle I have put a circle (everything, the one, god, universe...) and 4 circle alike forms around it – the first 3 stands for the circle of life (birth, life and death) and the fourth one have a motive from the carpet on it and it symbolize the impact on ourselves – the memory / emotions or whatever that we take with us in the next life, the next stage, the heaven /hell or whatever follows!!!

I hope that you got my idea and here are a lot of photos from the performance and it s preparation (Marie CASTEL has helped me a lot with all the preparations).

Step 1 - preparation of the sand (including traditional coloration)!!!

Step 2 - building the MANDALA

Step 3 - and the final step - the performance (destroying the carpet-mandala with a vacuum cleaner)...

In detail : First: I walk in and change my shoes with some clogs and put away my jacket. I take the vacuum cleaner and star cleaning / destroying my carpet / mandala...

In the end all it is left behind is a little mountain of mixed sand who has transform his colors in one color: something between gray-violet...

I hope you enjoyed my performance experience STAGE ONE!

Cheers

Dzenan