Milena Dragicevic
Milena Dragicevic was born is Serbia but grew up in Canada. She is also a twin, and her paintings have often featured doppelgangers, but she's no glib analyst of personal or cultural division. Compositions such as There is No Gardener, and He is Invisible (2005) - intermingling crazily angled topiary, redundant public sculpture propping up a looming house, disembodied arms grasping for colourful, bouncing circles - clarify Dragicevic's overriding interest: painting itself. For her the medium enables intractable complexities, a space for dreaming and deferred conclusions. Her recent 'Supplicants' series, quasi-portraits with facial areas edited out or hauntingly replaced by aspects of quietly thrilling pictorial austerity.
Copyright Martin Herbert, Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2007-8
Selected Bibliography
2006 Painting People: Figure Painting Today, ed. Charlotte Mullins, Distributed Art Publishers,
New York
2004 'Double Life', Tom Morton, frieze, 82
2003 'Milena Dragicevic at Artlab at Imperial', Mark Harris, Art in America
2003 'Reconstruction Isn't Easy', Jennifer Higgie, frieze, 73
2001 'Interview', Dobrochna Giedwidz, Boiler Magazine
Selected Exhibitions
2007 'the order of the present is the disorder of the future', De Hallen, Haarlem
2006 'The Supplicants', Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg
2005 'Even a Stopped Clock Tells the Right Time Twice a Day', Institue of Contemporary Arts,
London
2003 'Akrobatski', Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
2003 'Skulptura [skoolp-too-ra]', Artlab 25, Imperial College, London
Shown by
Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg
Galerie Martin Janda, Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna
