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

something for the orthodox church

painted paper / graphic
86 x 72 cm

Podcast hey, hey...

In the last time I have discovered Podcast, actually I knew it before, but I was not really interested in the topic. Since few months I am searching the net for interesting podcast-s and few weeks ago I found one - it is in German language an the name is "sleepless in Munich" (Schlaflos in Muenchen), moderated by Annik Rubens.

She has also a very funny and interesting idea - Her podcast on world tourney (People can take a photo of their IPod with the logo of sleepless in Munich (Schlaflos in Muenchen),and send it to her, she than make a huge collection with it on flickr...

So here is what I ahve shoot - SIM in Nebocaj. Enjoy it and I hope you enjoy the podcast in German language (I do it).

Cheers!

Exhibitions and when will I be famous?

...when will I be famous?

Live is a movie and you could be the star...

Here are 2 shots (the first one are the cover pages from the last two catalogs from the last two exhibitions from the artist association here in BiH, the second one are few snapshots from my two video-arts I made in 2005 and 2008 in Germany (Kronach and Erfurt), but in the catalog they put not the shown works (video), but 2 also shown graphics of me from the "Maria Mena" cycles - the 1 and the 2) - click on the number to see the images of the 2 works!

When will I, will I be famous?
I can't answer, I can't answer this...
Maybe I am already somewhere, somehow, sometimes
or maybe not!

Money is not important, to be famous is not important, to become an idol is not important when you search for the ultimative glory without any compromises, without any doubts and without any considerations.

In the end the only thing that matters is what actually you think about everything in this strange world! In the end there is a prise to pay!
Was it worth?

how much money you can drink?

Actually I wanted to upload those videos (this one and some others) to You tube, but this may take some time, because my internet connection is colorful but slow!

P.S. You should not try this at your home!!!