Sarajevo – last Thursday, the exhibition entitled “Crash” by the painter Edvin Granulo has been open in the gallery Java.
The visitors have the chance to see paintings made in the last four years but prints of earlier works as well – paintings of the tram station in Sarajevo that have been exhibited in Sarajevo, Amsterdam, Pristina and Skopje and for which this artist won the “Alija Kučukalić” prize.
The exhibition is open until October 2nd 2014.
With a few exceptions, the artist mainly paints using his imagination, by creating compositions of concrete blocks, parts of cars and airplanes, iron railway tracks and decomposed electronics. Artificial forms only are exhibited. It’s a visual repertoire of an urban environment. A post-apocalyptic atmosphere is underlined by colored drawings in the style of comic strips.
It’s an anti-organic and an anti-figural painting. In a certain correlation with the disturbed priorities of our global community. An object above a subject. The works fit into an industrialized environment evoking also its negative consequences. Drum ‘n’ bass music – has an important impact on the artist and it looks like it’s dividing that paradox. The compositions are made out of elements presented with a feeling for the fluid of the wholeness and not through logical space relations. “It’s a practice taken from the graffiti” – those are the words the artist himself used to describe his works.
Edvin Granulo was born on March 30, 1987 in Sarajevo where he graduated at the Painting Department at the Academy of fine arts.
He has so far exhibited in several galleries in Sarajevo and Maglaj on his own, and in USA, Kosovo, Amsterdam, Skopje, Mostar, France, Romania in group exhibitions.
(Source: Klix / photo: Edvin Granulo)
