Filip Gudovic

dispersal (11.5.11) / crown (11.5.11) (2024)

Acrylic on canvas

52 x 80 x 4 cm
62 x 53 x 4 cm

These paintings stem from a few photographs taken during my initial travelogue trip to Chengdu, China in 2011. The photographs range from momentary snippets in nature, museum artifacts and everyday situations found in the city that mostly includes a particular arrangement of objects. The works correspond to my current interests in tracing specific thresholds of light in photographs and using various forms of paint application in order to reconcile with the memory and the event. The painting surface acts as a membrane that records remembrance and agency in the present moment - the act of painting itself.

Filip Gudović (b. 1992 Belgrade, Serbia) is a painter based in Düsseldorf, Germany. Formerly he studied art in Singapore at LASALLE College of The Arts (2009-2014) under the mentorship of Milenko Prvački, Ian Woo and Tony Godfrey and later on moved to Germany to study at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2016-2022) in the classes of Katharina Grosse and Thomas Scheibitz (Meisterschuler). His recent works have been shown in group shows: What Was I Made For?, Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, 250 Jahre Absolvent*innenausstellung, Akademie-Galerie, Düsseldorf and a duo show with Dao Yuan Sun FUTURE RUSH, AURA Kunstraum, Düsseldorf.

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