Nebojsa (in Slavic: who is not afraid).

Within Nebojsa Bezanic’s art of painting, everything starts and ends with a drawing. As one of the best European drawers, he has expanded human anthill with his drawing, and spread it over his own map of the world, which has neither beginning nor end. He includes countless figures in his map of the parallel world, small and big soldiers waging war for him. The painter is like the demiurge, God of one of numerous universes where human is given the significance different from the real one.

The artist is no traditional minos, but the creator of the world, which operates according to its own rules, in agreement with space and fictitious time, which is lived faster and more existing.
Dejan Djoric.

The manicured human garden of Nebojsa Bezanic is timeless and explores with an abundance of details and symbols anatomy, monuments, curious objects, fairy animals… It is an invitation to understand the human world and soul, like a contemporary Hieronymus Bosch?

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© Nebojsa Bezanic
Sign of time. 2015
Ink and acrylic
Format: 150 x 170 cm

© Nebojsa Bezanic
Alchemy I. East meets West. 2015
Ink and acrylic
Format: 62 x 75 cm

© Nebojsa Bezanic
Alchemy II. The king and the hermaphrodites. 2015
Ink and acrylic
Format: 62 x 75 cm

© Nebojsa Bezanic
Shiva. 2013
Ink and acrylic
Format: 150 x 100 cm

I have always been concerned with problems relating to migration, identity, citizenship, integration, tolerance, exclusion… The interest for diverse humanitarian causes reflects itself in my visual and semantic explorations. Faced with the paradigm and monumentality of such causes, it is almost unfair to solely concentrate on one of them as opposed to studying them all. Vanity thus becoming the driving force of my production: a privileged way, full of strong symbolic.

Through my work I unveil my questioning of human nature and the remarkable discrepancy between scientific evolution and mankind. It is a metaphoric game discovered through drawing, associating body anatomy and objects in a modern form of memento mori.

Our body tells us a lot about the industrialised society we live in; hence the construction, deconstruction, association of bodies and machines all give way to many different interpretations of the human soul, whether pejorative or glorifying. The concepts of identity and anthropotechnic are strained. The diversity within the different unique elements that form a human being, as a tangible subject thriving to improve with no predetermination, always changing, always in the move, is simulated.
Daniel Dansou

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© Daniel Dansou
The zipper enlights. 2012
Pencil and ball point
Format: 70 x 100 cm

© Daniel Dansou
The Man. 2012
Pencil and ball point
Format: 80 x 60 cm

© Daniel Dansou
A moment suspended. 2014
Pencil and ball point
Format: 80x 60 cm

Edith Meijering is always searching for that different kind of face. Whether she is determining a portrait, an interior or a landscape. “Determine” is actually not the right way to describe Edith’s way of working. She loosens, stirs, searching for – in her own words – “the picture behind the created image”.

In the varied oeuvre that she composed in the past 20 years, she knows how to capture the viewer’s attention and keep them in her hold. The motto of her work is: “There is more than meets the eye”.

The first impression of beauty really gets an edge when you take a closer look at her portraits. The women that are portrayed can easily side with the cherished femmes fatale of the 19th century art of painting. Her paintings are incomprehensible, timeless and dangerous; despite the glamour of the 50’s and 80’s that these paintings send for.

These women are sophisticated; they know the different side of the coin. No life without death, no soundness without decay, no amiability without atrocity. But they continue to be alluring. And you’ll keep watching.
Tiana Wilhelm, manager of the Stedelijk Museum of Zutphen

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© Edith Meijering
Bee beard. 1999
Ink acrylics on paper
Format: 62 x 44 cm

© Edith Meijering
Blue eyes. 2011
Ink acrylics on paper
Format: 57 x 76 cm

© Edith Meijering
Selfportrait. 2014
Ink / acrylics on paper
Format: 40 x 32 cm

© Edith Meijering
Beauty is inside. 2014
Ink / acrylics on paper
Format: 40 x 32 cm

© Edith Meijering
Pussycat. 2014
Ink / acrylics on paper
Format: 40 x 32 cm