Bosnian life is a unwanted mandala - part 3

The third part of my performance project has started - on 23.11.2009 between 10 am and 2 pm I have with a lot of help from Marie CASTEL and Melda EMIROGLUE build again a mandala carpet. This time there have been some new aspects - the project is developing. New artifacts have been introduce into the whole installation. My belt is placed in front of the carpet, I started to write a little text about what I felt during the process. My belt broke in 3 pieces (strange) and I have made for the first time a scratch that I placed in front of the mandala, because I changed some colors and forms, too. The responsible man for putting up the whole exhibition was really boring - and he put me in a corner.

The final performance will be hold on the last day of the exhibition (05.12.2009) - I will of course place some photos. The new thing is that I will build an urn for each mandala (for the moment they have been placed in plastic bags and each time this plastic bags with datum and place are placed somewhere near the TV / LCD). In this urn I will also place this text about how I felt during making the mandala. So here are the photos :

This mandala is a work I presented in the gallery "Collegium Artisticum" in Sarajevo during the "Revijalna izložba" exhibition organized by the association of artist of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ULUBiH). About the exhibition I found some short articles in Bosnian language and the newspaper "Oslobođenje" published the article with the photo of my performance in Zagreb (of course nobody wrote my name anywhere...) - by the way here is the link to the article - click here - and here is that image made during the Max Art Fest in Zagreb.

If you want to read the older posts about the whole process and the other two performances click below:
Bosnian life is an unwanted mandala - the beginning
The mandala at the Maxt art fest
Spatial thanx to Mrs. Marie CASTEL and to Mrs.Melda EMIROGLUE for helping me.

National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

A3 format - colored graphic
about the museum - click here
homepage of the museum - click here

Latin Bridge

Latin Bridge (Bosnian: Latinska ćuprija, named Principov most - "Princip Bridge" in Yugoslavian era), is a historic bridge over the River Miljacka in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The northern end of the bridge was the site of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by Gavrilo Princip in 1914, which became a casus belli of World War I.
(to read the whole article click here).

Aladza Dzamija

SOLD (Format A2 - graphics)
wanna see the image of the real one - click here

two more for sale

Graphics (famous mosque in Sarajevo)
Format - A2

mixed motif graphics

Interview for the paper "Zarez"

Here is the article / interview from the newspaper "Zarez" (Croatia / Zagreb) - it is an interview made by Suzana Marjanic with me during the Max Art Fest about my performance there (written in croatian language).

click on image to enlarge it
(all rights from this article are reserved by the newspaper "ZAREZ", godište XI, broj:268)

Suzana, thank you very much for this nice interview and also a special thank to the Max Art Fest and to Ivana Percl and Leo Katunaric.

Mandala at the MaxArtFest in Zagreb

In October I was in Zagreb at the Max Art Fest (I wrote already about it - click here to see it) and here is the detailed version about it :

The first performance was made near Sarajevo (click here to read the post - Bosnian life is an unwanted mandala) and like the first one I started also in Zagreb with a drawing. But before I could draw it I had to transport all my materials to Zagreb (The colored sand could be a problem at the border, because it looks like a fancy new drug, but I had luck - nobody took me enough serious to search my car :)... Here are few photos about the material I drove in the back of my old Ford.

Than in Zagreb I started with my drawing (chalk on ground)

After the drawing with a lot of help from my cousin and his fiance (Robi and Tena) we made the mandala during 3 hours of intensive work and the people could watch us (during / by doing it), ask questions and it was a quite interesting experience to do it.
Special THANX to Robi and Tena...

During the construction of the mandala there was in the background a big LCD. On it the people who has not time to come back to the main act of the performance could see the first performance that I did in Nebocaj, near Sarajevo.

At 9 PM the main act begun and after a little speech of 3-5 Minutes I started to do what every human normally do if they has a carpet - I started to clean the carpet with my vacuum cleaner but this carpet is my mandala, so you can clean it only once.

In the end I put everything from the vacuum cleaner to a bag, write a name on it (the date and the place) and this will be shown with the video I made during the next exhibition where I will do my third of 28 performances. You can click on each image to enlarge it and to see it better. For futher information if needed you can also contact me via email.

The next performance will be at the end of November (26. or 27.) here in Sarajevo at the "REVIALNA IZLOŽBA" in the gallery "Collegium Artisticum" organized by the association of artist in BiH. You are welcome to come.
Cheers
Dzenan

Vagabond

"Vagabond"
A0 Format
(unsold)

Drawing of M

There is a man dancing around a big bronze sculpture,
he wears a hat,
in his right hand a bottle of wine,
a bohemian rhapsody is his destiny,
and his name,
so famous name,
even Mr. Renoir knew it.

Cheers, Mr. M this is my lady
just a sketch and when I know her soul I will paint her once for ever!
Like you did just before you died with your Lady!
Cheers Mr. M et aller on y va ;)

Artists and tedium

When a poet is bored, he writes, a hacker hacks, a British drinks tea and what do an artist who is bored? ...
I do not know...
I do repaint with graffiti the walls of my flat...

Cheers
Dzenan

Variation No.4

Variation No.3

Variation No.2

Variation No.1

Max Art Fest Zagreb

I was the last few days in Zagreb where I did my performance with the mandala and it was really funny to meet all the people and to see my family again. Special thanx to Robi and Tena who has build with me the mandala during the over 3 hours performance and to the Max Art Fest who gave me this opportunity.

http://www.maxartfest.com/

promises and new clothes for the new emperor

Material : Stone and a big piece of wood
Title: the St.Stone
Price: Priceless (sold)

... it was just 4 cm deep, the brand new wound in my forefinger, the veins were not cut, just one, the nerves were intact, the hand swollen, blue, black and somewhere a little bit yellow. It works still just fine. The half liter blood I`ve lost have been regenerated by my body, my heart, but not my soul.

the show can go on, and the show will go on - no matter what!
For some artist the show starts after they are gone!
For other it never begins!
Do I actually care?

Not really... it is fun, and we are the show...
what will stay are some fleas promises and brand new clothes for the emperor.

It has hurt, to make this sculpture, but the spirit demands sometimes more than the body want to pay - temperature, new swollen hand, no movement with the left hand, but the show will go on,
the body will heal and new promises will be made!

and tomorrow they will maybe take out the strings and the hand will heal again!

music stone matriculation

music stone matriculation
cause I’m marvelous, said the lady I was listening to when I made this abstract music ´n´love matriculation stone sculpture - here the link to the song