Drago Persic Drago Persic

DRAGO PERSIC / À MOITIÉ MORT

“Suddenly the words fade into silence. A cloud comes into her eyes and they go blank. She's somewhere else, away from me, someone I don't know."

Reale Irritation

Drago Persic leads us into a fragmentary world of silence, aloofness and irritation, into a world of black and white contrasts, fine gray values ​​and sensitive nuances.
Precise, technically impressive painting and sound film flow together in an overall concept that allows us to follow the path from the film roll to the developed film strip to painting.
The viewer experiences the protagonist and his surroundings up close; he needs the necessary emotional distance for this - also in order not to lose the thread. Isolated objects, clothes, shoes, plants are autonomous portraits just like those of the protagonists in Persic's film and painting.
Psychological terror and crime, wrong processes, shifts in time, space and size, unreal images of the cruel and beautiful, appear on the painterly stage.
Persic's painting in its medially / technically determined hypothermia and intellectuality paired with a spark of melancholy eroticism shows consternation, indecision but also the demand for definition, other possibilities and levels. Who could i be This question arises in the calm before the storm. Drago Persic confronts us with his very intense and courageous form of realistic painting, which apparently incidentally raises questions of meaning and contains extremes and the unforeseen. Barbara Baum, artistic director of Strabag Kunstforum

Drago Persic's finely differentiated, black and white painting mysteriously reflects the everyday crime scene.
Barbara Baum; Strabag Art Forum, Vienna

With Drago Persic, a young painter has been awarded who has integrated a "shudder", a strongly hypothermic atmosphere into his factual rendering of reality. In addition to the disciplined technique in order to match the model seen, Persic is also convincing in the sensitive application of paint.
Florian Steininger, curator of the BA-CA Art Forum, Vienna

Every represented thing, every represented person, every represented process, etc. contains innumerable places of indeterminacy, and although illusory we believe in the authenticity of reality without knowing the story.

Drago Persic

Uncle Charlie to nice Charlie
„You wake up every day and know there‘s nothing in the world to trouble you.
You go through your ordinary little day.
At night, you sleep your ordinary sleep filled with peaceful, stupid dreams.
And I brought you nightmares.
Or did l? Or was it a silly, inexpert, little lie?
You live in a dream. You‘re a sleepwalker, blind.
How do you know what the world is like?
Do you know the world is a foul sty?
Do you know if you ripped the fronts off houses, you‘d find swine?
The world‘s a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?
Wake up, Charlie. Use your wits. Learn something!
You goin‘, Charlie?“
(Raucous Laughter)
Dialogauszug aus Hitchcocks „Shadow of a Doubt“, 1943


DRAGO PERSIC

1981 born in Banja Luka, Bosnia
2002 studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna master class Muntan / Rosenblum, Elke Krystufek
Lives and works in Vienna

Exhibitions (selection)

2005
Master School Award of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Before buzzer; Group exhibition with Friedrich Klug, Katherina Mair,
Patricia Reinhart
Tour of the exhibition 05 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

2004
Photography as art-art as photography-art photography, Vienna

2002
Elements of Figuration; Projektraum Schleifmühlgasse, Wien

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