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We dream/we daydream/we hope. Dreams are a part of our secret life. They often cause unpleasant feelings; some of them are even unfulfilled. Toni Ostojić used these broken dreams as an inspiration for a series of artworks and an exhibition of the same name (“Broken Dreams”) which is hereby presented.
“Broken dreams – because they are dedicated to dreams that brought disappointment and discontent, or even those dreams that did not come true. My broken dreams were a part of the inspiration for this visual art series, but generally speaking, this series is about the broken dreams of a man as a being, not me as an individual,” the author says.
An objective approach to emotional preoccupations, a zinc board as the primary medium over which “artistic violence” has been carried out. A board that contains the imprints of memory. “This procedure is equivalent to permanent damage and is in correlation with modern society,” the director of Private Cultural Centre, Miljana Dunđerin wrote in her review.
“I wanted to use more graphic techniques in this series because I am a graphic artist by vocation. From the world of traditional graphics, I used aquatint techniques, etching, mezzotint, dry needle. I also combined all techniques at the same time. Apart from traditional graphic techniques, I also created several works using the modern digital method, and for the works created on a canvas card, I used acrylic painting techniques,” explains Ostojić.
While browsing through the catalog, you will realize that each work bears the same name, differing only in the numbers in the description. This is not surprising, because the works are part of the same art series which is interconnected, and the works are numbered chronologically, based on when they were created, from the first to the last.
