One more for the church

The idea (the sketch) - below and the final version after the consultation with the church.

Oil on canvas (60 x 40cm),
the co-author is "ma petite"...

the sketch (A3) - mixed media
the post for the sketch -> click here

Brand new contact card

Since my last logo was not really copyright protected, we have now in Sarajevo a new book shop with a logo that looks like my old logo from my old contact card... :( (actually very similar)... So I decided to build me a logo that would be really uniq - and here it is, the siluette of me...

The last time I have let my logo design by pros but this time (inspired by them) I dit it myself... by the way - here is the post from my old contact card - click here.
Cheers
Dzenan

Marie

"Ma Marie"
Format : R65cm
Wooden sculpture

Flamenco - c'est beau

"Flamenco - c'est beau"
Format : R65cm
Wooden sculpture

The abstract bird

"The abstract bird"

Format : R60cm
Wooden sculpture

Self portrait in green

"Self portrait in green"
Format : 60 x 40cm
Oil on canvas

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

ARTIST'S STATEMENT by Dzenan Sehic

My favorite tools: In the physical way there is my grinding machine and my bits (auger drills) but in other ways I like “momentum” in expression as a tool.

My favorite material:

I actually do not have a favorite material, because sometimes I need to express myself in clay, sometimes with oil-colors, sometimes with any sort of different media…

What do I do:

The best about my work is that my pattern is the experimental way, so I actually cannot say that my next work will be a sculpture, a video or a drawing. It always depend on the moment, the place where I am, the people that have surround me during the day and so go on…

A piece have turned out very well:

It is actually very difficult to say that a piece have turned very well, but we (the artist) do it sometimes, or we don’t do it never. I see myself in the group of those who say sometimes for their own work that it has turned very well, but this does not mean that I am completely satisfied, it is just this little moment before continuing with all the other works… Because we cannot afford to like our work so much, that we stop trying to be better than at this very moment…

The differents between what I do and what I was taught:

I do not do just like I was taught, because this would mean reproduction and recreation over and over. Every artist who evaluate try to harvest from his experience, but to introduce something own in every next project without just copying himself or his teachers!

When I work with some materials I am mostly reminded of nothing in particular, because mostly I have an idea and I just work on it without thinking to much about it, because more I think about it, the more some thought of great artist influence me and my work – sometimes this is necessary, but sometimes not. I begin a piece simply by starting the first lines, by beginning it…

I know a piece is done when I know it is finished, and mostly I do know it, still sometimes it happens – a work overdone and than it just don’t feel mine any-more…So what to do: “When the vine is sour, throw the vine out!”

I love it when a work goes well, it makes me feel happy and I gather a lot of motivation to continue to work, but when a work goes bad I need a day of break to became really angry about it and to want to do it the best that is possible.

When people see my work I would like them to enjoy it, not to like it, neither to be scared of, nor to understand it, because in my works anyone can see whatever she/he wants to see. Because I don’t see my work I feel it!

What do I try to avoid:

If I ever kill myself by kicking with my head a wall in a gallery or a museum I do not want people to think that it was a performance and the blood on that very wall to be understood as an artwork... I try to avoid the theory of “emperors new clothes” by not explaining my work with some suicide, foolish and philosophical - abstract theories... If you do not like it you are not stupid, nor a liar, my works simply not satisfied your taste and that is all.

And finally – MYSELF!!!

On the internet and in so many “how to” books you can find an explanation where is written – described how to write a statement... I have tried to avoid them, too. I want not to write a manifest about art, artist or myself, but to explain few details about me and how I think about what I do...

What is real is real, what is illusion it has to be discovered... Tragedy, a funny thing that happened only to other people! And only to others!

I see myself like this - a work under construction, a bundle of contradictions and human...

DREAMER!

The bearing Bosnian angel

"The bearing Bosnian angel*"
Format : A0
Mixed media graphic: pencil + crayon + graphic colors + oil colors

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*Under the angel you can see 2 details from BiH
- "Kovači" in Sarajevo and the old bridge in Mostar.

Subsuming to survive

"Subsuming to survive"
Format : A0
Drawing - pencil + crayon

Straightening up - from 1997

After cleaning up my studio I found 2 of my very first painting (oil on canvas) . It was before starting any artistic formation in summer of 1997 :) - so this is how it all started, the formats are small (30 x 40cm) and the thematic s are strange but I was 15.
Enjoy

Finally back

After more than a month vacation I am finally back, fresh and I have quite appetite for work ;)
But before working on my own art-works I have to finish some paintings for the catholic church and inspired by Rafaels' paintings - this is the sketch for it (twice) :

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)