RITE OF PASSAGE (RITUAL SERIES) 2020
Solo Show. StudyForArtPlatform (Stockholm).

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Slobodan Zivic is best known for working with contemporary and technological materials and methods. In his new solo exhibition, however, he goes back to his roots to work with simpler means, and with drawing in focus. For Zivic, drawing became a way of processing his experiences during the turbulent years of growing up. Over time, drawing developed into rituals in everyday life, and thus gained a symbolic value beyond the original therapeutic purpose. Expressing oneself creatively in this way became a way of developing as a person and thus became a rite of passage to adulthood. With a present global crisis, which has once again created a turbulent existence, Zivic has in his new exhibition turned to his vulnerable safe haven and recreated the rituals, but in a new version. Inspired by his childhood in the former Yugoslavia, Zivic has used means such as ballpoint pens, lighters, and firecrackers. Something that made a strong impression on him was how messages were often burned along roofs, under stairs, and over corners and edges, both inside and outside buildings. A way that he experienced as unique to this time and place. In his new works, Zivic lets these burn marks, together with the drawings, spread over the edges of the canvas, thus transforming the two-dimensional surfaces into three-dimensional sculptures. In the abstract expression, however, he transforms the messages on the walls and ceilings into the child's wordless and associative expression.

"Rite of Passage (Ritual Series)” (2020) is Slobodan Zivic's third solo exhibition.
Elis Monteverde Burrau read one of his work at the opening 01.10.2020

Material/Technic: Pyrotechnics, ballpointpen (ink), Varnish on canvas