The title of the exhibition "Bubble in Time" refers primarily to digital photography and the huge production of records in virtual form that can disappear at one moment like a soap bubble, says Professor Karanović.
"Bubble in Time" is the title of the exhibition of drawings on photographs and graphics by Branimir Karanović in Belgrade gallery "Chaos".
Professor Branimir Karanović has been a part of the local art scene for five decades. He is known for his experiments in the field of photography and graphics.
In the announcement of the exhibition, it is written that Karanović "does not deal with drawing in a classical way, but the drawing exists in an unexpected form in many of his photographs. Thus, strung ropes or light bulbs on cables in some city or tent space are associated with an abstract game of lines. A shot of a cracked wall captured through a strung wire or a dance of grasses, traces of spilled paint, a tangle of electric cables on a wall, an intertwining of branches and shadows - all this forms a certain drawing fabric with which it is built creative visual experience."
A photograph that is graphic
Professor Karanović explains that at this exhibition he "presented a collection of digital prints on graphic paper", bringing them thematically and materially closer to the medium of graphics and drawings, as well as that "this collection of 'drawings' in photography has been purposefully created for the last two years for the exhibition in the Haos Gallery, which nurtures drawing, but in one expanded field of different media in the spirit of our time".
About the title of the exhibition "Bubble in Time" he says that it is "a metaphorical title in the text of the art historian Ljiljana Ćinkul and refers above all to digital photography and the huge production of records in virtual form that can disappear at one moment like a soap bubble. I deal with digital photography, but I translate selected images into printed material".
The exhibited works are, as Ljiljana Ćinkul wrote, a dialogue between photography and graphics.
Blades of grass
Karanović says that he has been dealing with the combination of graphics and photography in various techniques since "his graduation work at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 1974. Digital printing in this century has enabled me to achieve the desired result in my work in the most adequate way. The difference between the works that I exhibit as photographs and those that I make as graphics is minimal. to photo-sensitive material. Digital records are transferred to paper or some other material by printing, which brought photography closer to graphics."
A detail, like a blade of grass in Karanović's photographs, acquires a meaning that does not exist in nature.
"Thematically, I showed artistically attractive details from my environment, setting them apart from the wider context of the environment and thus often giving them the impression of an abstract composition. I believe that everything captured with a lens cannot be abstract, but only the recognition of the object is at stake."
Recorded motifs and name details ready made because, he says, "based on my interests, artistic experience, I find and recognize visually attractive relationships of artistic elements, lines, surfaces, rhythms, valerian values and textures in often banal objects. Through thoughtful framing, I find interesting compositions. This series of my works, apart from being educational in terms of building simple compositions of several elements, can also be classified as art for art's sake art".
Symbol of protest
Although they are, as it is popularly said, artistic, Branimir Karanović's photos are "like all areas of photography, documentary because they are a document about me, the way I work and think in my time."
This year, at the May exhibition of the Graphic Collective, he commented on the student and civil protests and their symbols with photographs.
"I was never a professional reporter, but I always followed all the events in my own way, with a dose of condemnation, sarcasm and humor, and I consider that a social engagement and a document of the times we live in."
Galleries in our cities accept photo exhibitions, says Karanović, "but due to the ease of production, digital color photo exhibitions are much more numerous and more appealing to a wide audience, which to some extent lowers the level. The only photo gallery is Artget in the Cultural Center of Belgrade, which has a professional selection and quality presentation of photography, while no private gallery has opted for artistic photography."
Photography is art.
Contemporary art photography is under the pressure of new technology, which makes photography only a means of recording one's own life. At the same time, photography has been an art for decades.
Professor Karanović says that he is "greatly satisfied that after several decades of struggle by older colleagues and professors, artistic photography is today recognized as a painting, graphic, sculpture."
It does not diminish the possibilities of digital photography because it "brought about the fantastic development of cameras, record carriers of huge capacities, high quality of reproduction and especially nano-technology of miniature cameras and mobile phones which allowed everyone to create hundreds of shots at every opportunity".
"Not even the artists remained immune to new changes." Selfie aesthetics, but it is important to be selective and resist aggressive advertising and informative kitsch. Considering the amount of recorded documents, I will mention the 'Bubble' from the title - the question is what will survive from it."
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