Imad

Imad is a name from a friend of us and all erasmus people that come to visit Avignon ;). Imad make wall paintings (FRESCO) and this woman is in one of his old wall paintings. I just have let me inspired me by it...

once more before 2009

So, the year is almost finish... But some of us are still not ;) This year I get to meet very interesting people and to find out about a lot of stuff (probably I will not use any of those things in my life, but who knows...)
One of the highlights this year was the discovery of a very young but great Norwegian singer Maria Mena (here is also the link to her blog)...

I will maybe make an artwork and dedicated it to her next year, because I really like her music...
(I do not do ofter publicity :) ... but this time it should be)...
Have a great new year and everything you wish for!
And thank you all for reading my blog!

Dzenan Sehic

Marry Christmas and ho ho ho

Marry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone in this (ours) blue world!!!

Just carrying on...happy 50st!

What makes me keep going on?

Today is a very gray day. Not black enough to grow a great depression, but not white nether to be sunny, happy, people shinning. It was just another gray day! But it is also somehow my 50st anniversary. Not my age, but my art-works-competition tryings...

Few seconds ago I got again a decline to a competition I try to participate, but it was not my first one, nether my second... no, it is since I make art-works my 50st one...

So, have I to ask myself if any of my art-works are actually worth anything? It is hard, is it worth to carry on? I am not afraid of what they say... one of us (me or them) will understand one day! All objectivities is gone, but still I am carrying on. And the truth is on witch site?

Finally who cares!!!
I am actually everywhere, probably not in the Guggenheim or "le Louvre", but still you can find me in many places! Probably nether on a juried competition art exhibition, but you can find me on the internet...

And I will carry on, because I know that I am right, even then when I am wrong ;)
But I know, and I knew it when I started all this, that what ever I want in my life, it won`t be the satisfaction of a suicide try, and the red patch (mark) from my head on a wall in a gallery, that I hit trying to kill myself, because then some critics could interpret this patch as an art-work and my suicide try as a performance and if I would have the luck to die in trying this it could be fatal and I could become really famous!!!

Sorry, but not like this and who actually want to become famous...? If I wanted to became I would have become a guitar player with a spot on MTV, with some money for nothing and some chicks for free ;)

So for now on, I will carry on and finish this gray day with some color. Maybe green!
Yeah, green is good...for my 50st! That`s the way I do it!

my old poetry book!

This drawings are from my old poetry book!

when I was little (about 16) I wrote a tons of poems for the imaginary girl I was waiting for. Now I am working in my free time to rewrite all of those poems and to post it on a blog, that I will open (the poetry blog - old poems) for example....

the old Banja Luka

this don`t exist any more... It is the view of a restaurant, where my father has work in 1969...
The old Banja Luka, the river Vrbas and the restaurant that do not exist any more!

Old town of Sarajevo

dry pastel and a lot of fun!

"Vijecnica"

the old part of the town... (when you spend some time with the wind "MISTRAL" you start to paint like van Gogh did :/ ... )

dry pastel

Hundertwasser inspired "2"

After over thinking a little bit I did one motif I have already done once again, but this time a smaller format and it is a dry pastel ...

by the way - this is the old one - (click on the image below to go to the old post about it)

cathedral of Sarajevo

cathedral of Sarajevo - dry pastel

One more in the line

You don' t have to like it, neither to understand it, you do not even have to accept it as an art-work, because I do!

You actually never can tell!

The best work is the simple one! Actually it is with everything in the life. The best recipes in the world are simple, the best music, the best poems... and so the best art works, too..

A paper imprint conceptual artwork with marrow-pips (pumpkin seeds - if you prefer)

Was it simple to make?

I guess for me it was! But is it a good piece of art, because it is a simple one? You actually never can tell! I will again repeat myself and stay at my statement - YOU LIKE IT OR NOT! You choose, yes you can! Because if you let me choose for you, than yes Sir, it is a very good piece of art!

Something to read about it

Hi Volks,

Today I found something on the Internet (actually it is an article about a friend of mine and a good performance artist - Ervin Babić) - It is in Bosnian language (Serbo-Croat) and you can find it by following this link - http://www.zarez.hr/228/kazaliste1.html.

In this article the writer (author) Suzana Marjanić from the Croatian papers "Zarez" has interviewed Ervin and in one of her questions she is quoting from one of my articles from this blog (http://dzennan.blogspot.com/2007/01/brilliant-mind-o7.html). Like the most reporters do, she took a little part from a large text, embroider and interpret it to pose one of her questions to my friend. Even if I think that the interview and the article has been quite well written (done), there are still few things I personally learned from it.

First of all - Yes there are people reading our blogs, and some may cited and invoke some parts, but it is just sad that we do have to explain how we grow and evolute with the time, with every entry, with every post a little bit more an yes during this process we change our perspective, sometimes even our beliefs... The more we know, the more we realized our "unknowingness" and our unawareness.

For my part I am thankful to the reporter Suzana Marjanić reading my blog, even when it was probably just for this time, because she did her homework preparing for the interview, but also for showing me that I actually do have to re-explain myself sometimes again and to not to write anything in my blog!

experimentation 313

"Experimentation conceptual art - work with vegetables"

Rodinia, Gondwana and Laurussia , Pannotia, Pangaea...but before that our whole universe was in a hot dense state, then nearly 14 billion years ago expansion started..."late"!

From our point of view - Europa, Africa, Asia, America...and all this started with the forming of every galaxy that actually took less time than to write this post...or to sing the originally song!!!

The earth began to cool,
the autotrophs began to drool,
Neanderthals developed tools...
we build a wall! we build the pyramids...
math, science, history,
unraveling the mystery, that all started with the bing bang!

and of course an experimentation work of a physicist!

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*You can see the original video to the song big bang and the text to it on :
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-a8MguIMmCI

Atelier SARAJEVO

Halo to everyone,

I am working since few years with some friends of mine (Mr.Branka Turkić and Mr.Maja Zmukić) in cooperation with a woman named Kathi Stockinger with children. We call ourselves "Atelier Sarajevo". Few days ago I found out that Kathi has won a big prise by mobilcom Austria for a project of Atelier Sarajevo (http://www.inos.at/projekte/mobilcom_award08.htm) - so actually we have won it all, but it is like always interesting that she has taken the price (we know now that she works for inos (Initiative Osteuropa)) from Kofi Annan and Boris Nemsić and there was NO mention of our names (Dzenan Šehić, Branka Turkić and Maja Zmukić) - not even few little words that we have actually made this project (Coloure talks)...

I wrote about it already on my blog - click here to see the page!

My blog is under a creative commons licence so the whole idea is under it also!

copyright since 2007

If not particulary different mentioned is the matter of this sites licenced by Dzenan Sehic under a Creative Commons Licence.

Cheers
Dzenan

L.O.V.E.

Leonardo V.C.

feeling silent

black 'n' white

"Ciko" d'aeroport

angels

Even the angels have to balance on someones crazy horses and the world is still turning around. One day you will wake up and your angel "gardien" will be somewhere else, than just klick and one moment later you will reach the finish line and ask yourself - WAS IT AN ACCIDENT???

dry pastel - 42 x 50,4 cm

Today, I am again very disappointed in the world and in those someones crazy horses!

professional design

I tried to make a logo and to design my own contact-card but finally professionals did it and this is my brand new contact-card for conservation of artworks.
I like it!

The wizard returns to Avignon

here a little photo of Sarajevo by night I took few weeks ago, during a walking session around my neighborhood and here it is :..."My kind of town, Sarajevo is!!!"
and now let s have a glass of wine or milk :)

sometimes it has to be ALIKE

work in progress and yet still not ready to go...
it is a part of SARAJEVO - you see the national library* destroyed during the war...

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*The National Library was housed in the old town hall known as Vijecnica, a graceful Moorish revival building constructed in the heart of the city.

finally again once and more once

you can not buy this, nether a piece of paradise ...

prost, salute, zivjeli ...

BasCarsija Van Gogh alike

oil on canvas with some metal legures

70 x 120 cm

michelangelo alike - P4

...just a sketch drawing for a crucification cycle that I hope to made :)

P3 - wh(wi)thout a comment

so many different ways to write without...but so many errors!

without(whitout) :) a comment again P2

scetches...whitout a comment

Atelier SARAJEVO Project - COLOURE TALKS

Halo people, I would like to present to you a great project we are working on it! When I say we I mean a great team of people (Dzenan Šehić, Branka Turkić and Maja Zmukić in cooperation with 3 other friends : Edin, Emir and Selma).
Today we started a new workshop (a little bit chaotic) but it is okey! The name is "COLOUR TALKS" - I know it is nor written right but it is great.

We started few years ago with a project (Idea by the ZOOM Kindermuseum in Vienna) - it was called the "CITY BOX" and it was great. Since then we have made few great projects with building Aliens, making masques, creating a water world and who knows what will follow.

This time the children will work with colors - every child will be one color and they will have to learn to work together to create a great painting! Branka Turkic and Maja Zmukic has this great idea, and I have upgraded it and translated it to German language, so that our friends from Austria can find some sponsors. Actually for this project we do not need any sponsors, because the idea is simple, cheap and great, but our Austrian friends have found a good sponsor, so that every child will have a T-Shirt in his color - that is quite good.

I am happy to be a part second coordinator and founder of it and we will keep going!
Cheers
Dzenan

complain and make different

everyone can complain....

make it different -

plant a tree, stop to breath the air, look up in the sky, built a winter-bird-house, walk down the street and laugh a little bit, it makes other people happy, be kitsch, be Gustav Klimt... be yourself and make that different s...

in the name of love...

In the name of love, I guess I should make more radio - vocal msgs, maybe even here on my blog...But who knows, we live in a time of change, but still the most time we wait for something.
We got maybe 80 x summer... It is not that much... but the most of us don`t get 80...some 60, some less...in some region not even 25...
This drawing I will call "the timer-waiter-man"
It is not a real word, but it is a real drawing!

dont hurry...

"the snail of time"
colored wooden sculpture
august, 2008

...people say that it is not the time that pass, it is just we that pass by...but for us it is real, for us the time pass by and we with it.

the luck of the sea

the first love could has been the sand...
the sea comes over it...

the love BEGUND

it speaks for itself...
colored wooden sculpture
august, 2008

the inspiration itself...

"villendorf 2008 in Sarajevo"
colored wooden sculpture
august, 2008

triangle of meening

"corn and wine and one is missing"
colored wooden sculpture
august, 2008

don`t do it just to make the job done!
don`t panic...
don`t stop to breathe...open your eyes is not enough..

the revolution has began over 10.000 years ago...
turn around and take a look behind...
but who cares: dans son canap', dans son coin' on est bien!!!

H.I.R.

I do it because I can...
and we call it here - hir!!! HIR!!!

j`ai une mouvais nouvelle...

things should be explored!
the circle turns out to become a absurd form of organic minds...
we live in a world where we unite just to make more separations!
Swallow the light and let the dark, the unknown, absorb you.

the democracy we live in,
the free mind we have,
the will, the power, the own subconsciousnesses makes us understand...

we do not have enough time,
no water, no food...
we actually do not understand!

And all I do is making sculptures,
absurd forms of a free mind, still influenced by time, by water and food, we need!
I need...

le bourgeois a Sarajevo qui chante et qui danse!

end of July I made this one, after more than 8 years, finally a portrait again...

the harmonic of life is playing once again for the truth...
like I said...
if you want to make it in this game,
you need more than luck or a look...
you have to be prepared,
to take over the one and only you had been given... in this game,
it is not your freedom, cause you don´t have it.
it is not your blood, the blood type is not the same...
to make it in this game,
only thing you actually need is your name...
If it`s the right name!!!