Upside Down 4, Dragana B. Stevanovic - T.O.E. Art Market

Stevanović re-examines the potentialities of perception of artistic expression manifested by the line qualities and the legibility of artworks placed in different potential positions (rotation in respect to the wall surface). In the past, many artists practised the idea of rotating the images - the most famous being 'rotoreliefs' by Man Ray who intended to make the instability of form visible and hypnotize the observer (the forerunner of today's 'spin paintings' out of which the most famous artworks may be of Damien Hirst), as well as Georg Baselitz with his Inverted paintings or 'Rotation paintings' by Keith Wilson. Unlike them, Dragana B. Stevanović seeks to explore the contemporary potential of observability and the nature of the painting and drawing media, highlighting the complexity of the process of creating an artwork that involves interpreting it from multiple sides. The artist abolishes the exclusive determinism of the only one, practically imposed, spatial position of work of art and emphasizes the variability and different possibilities of perception, respecting the potential of different interpretations and individual sense of the composition of each person.

Dragana B. Stevanović (b. 1975) is a visual artist from Belgrade, Serbia. She holds a BA in Painting (2001) and an MA in Drawing (2005), both from the Academy of Arts, University in Novi Sad. In 2019, she obtained her PhD degree of Multimedia Arts in the University of Arts in Belgrade, Dpt. of Interdisciplinary Studies. Strevanović had solo exhibitions in Serbia, Austria and USA. She participated in numerous national and international group exhibitions, workshops, seminars and projects (Spain, France, Austria, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Germany and USA). Since 2006, Dragana has been working at Dpt. of Fine Arts, University of Novi Sad.