Drago Persic Drago Persic

OPENING
Thursday, 21.09.2006, 6.30 pm

WELCOME
Hans-Peter Haselsteiner

“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."

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, STRABAG Kunstforum

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