Money art

Why making art when you can make money?
since I am an artist I struggle...
To become an artist
or a millionaire?

Can you have both? Probably not.
If I will make money, I could buy a house too,
a big, fat car...new hair maybe, new gold teethes.
Than I will have more money than I know how to use,
but I can not make art in a golden room!

If I become an artist, I will make art,
not in a house but in a public garden,
without a car, nor bicycle even, not hair or golden teethes,
but I will feel better with nothing left to lose.

Why making money when you can make art?
since I made some money I struggle...
to continue or to be an artist again!

Dear my unknown friend, money is not everything - yes we do need it, but not really.You might think I'm crazy, you might think I'm strange but this is how it is - look around you! Where are those millionaires from the XVI century? The real thing money is not! One day I will start making art again, but this text is a tribute to the "Blues brothers" - and their song "Can't Play The Blues In An Airconditioned Room"...

Cheers

the wizard of Avignon back on trail!

Untitled 10

Like Phil said:
I'll get you everything you wanted
I'll get you everything you need
don't need to believe in hereafter
just believe in me...

Time`s up... wake up!
Tailors are everywhere.
Art can be anything - you just have to claim it!
Am I an artist?
Today I am not, maybe tomorrow again.

"The Emperor's New Clothes"

Do we have to understand art?
Do we have to understand the artist?
Do we have to read the catalog to be amazed?
Do we have to have emotions when we see an artwork?
Do we have to be breathless?
Do we have to agree with art institutions?
Do we have to see clothes where they are not?

WE DO NOT!
But unfortunately we do!

Animals :/

I do not like to draw or paint animals !!! But unfortunately there are few people who want animal graphics from me - so here they are I made them from photos!

Pomegranate

Each of those is around 50 Euros - I do not really like to paint staff like this, but people do not pay for mandalas, performances or my video art, and my sculptures I do not sell for 50 Euros ;)

Today

Today I did not know what to do - I was bored, so I did a lot of things... The biggest project you might see upon (my living room - again decorated)... the other few below.

by the way the woman on the drawing - experimental painting (the scary one) and the bottle is Annik Rubens from SIM - Schlaflos in Muenchen and mr. Moose from Ersatz TV (both German context)...
cheers

Podcast

My Podcast (in German) - Ruben Vagabund - "der Dialektenpodcast" goes online today! With some difficulties at the beginning but it will be better.

Here the Blog - Ruben Vagabund

Here the intro jingle (made by Mahir Bajric) - click to download - link - 256Kbps MP3 or hier - OGG Vorbis (both less than 1MB).

And here is the first EP - "die Einleitung" (13MB - but the intro-jingle is bad quality - I have to recheck it why!!!)

You can also subscribe to it :

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cheers
your wizard of Avignon, aka. Dzenan SEHIC alias Ruben Vagabund!

P.S. Marry Christmas to all of you and god bless.

Oslobođenje - article from today

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Hej Folks - here is an article from the newspaper "Oslobođenje" that I bought today and - surprise - the interview and the performance has been published :) I like the photos and the article is very good written - there are few little mistakes so for the record :

1. It should be Milan Tutunovic insted of Milan Trifunovic :/ who influenced my work...
2.I did the Tibetan mandala all day long (in Lyon) and not 3 hours - I do mine about 3 hours...
3. The majority in Bosnia are 3 people (3 religions) but we have more than 3 (not just 3)... :)

Otherwise it is very good :) and I do like it.

cube, cubes, cubis, cabis and so on...

1, 2, 7, 22, 67, 202, 607, 1822, 5467, 16402, 49207 ...and so on ;)

In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each vertex ( it is a regular hexahedron) and about the the five Platonic solids and the cube as one of them I will not speak here...

In art, a cube is just an illusion, a perfect and infinite form and the only reason why it exist is to challenge the mind of an artist. The cube is the plenarily idea of a mosaic, a puzzle that has to be transformed into an artwork.

In geometry and in art two cubes are a problem. One is always bigger, the color is not the same, in perspective we see the first one more than the second one. Too many options with to many variables. Two cubes become mostly some kind of a braniac, super mandala.

One day I will try it in real:
One cube become two, two becomes seven, seven becomes twenty two; and twenty two becomes sixty seven, sixty seven become two hundred and two; and two hundred and two becomes six hundreds and seven and so on...
in to the material infinity!

Sculpture-fobia, sculpture-mania

Hallo people, I can say for myself that I am an artist, but I am also a sculpture-maniac, so my disease is sculpture-mania... If you do not have any sculptures in your environment you must be a sculpture-fobiac :)

Here is a photo what I do with my sculptures (you can see the front of my studio and I can guarantee you that it will be more)...

Cheers
Dz

Opening night - 24.12.2005

The exhibition was hold for the national holly-day (the 25th of November) - the day of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was open by the director of the gallery Strajo Krsmanović, by the director of the association of artist Irfan Hozo and by the Prime Minister of the department of Sarajevo Besim Mehmedić (if I have translate his position right - "premijer kantona Sarajevo". 108 authors were attending with over 180 works - the most were 2 dimensional.

On the photos below you can see the installation during the exhibition and on the second photo you can see the director of the association of artists Irfan Hozo during his speech and the amount of visitors behind and around him and on the last two photos you can see my installation just after building it and the try to make the TV work together with the DVD player (finally someone makes it work) .

Here you can see again some details from the installation (01. - my belt with the skretch and the name of the performance, 02. the plastics bags with the ancient mandalas that has been destroyed, 03. I put also the tools for constructing the mandala and in the back is the TV (working), where the spectators could see the videos (the performance itself) from Zagreb and Nebocaj.

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).

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(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