Zasto 2011

Dragan Ilić Di Vogo made "Zasto" with oil paint and I can see the movement of his hand. The painting shifted and emerged through trial, error, and intuition, coming into being. I can sympathize with this artist, imagining what it might have been like to create this painting. What might he have been thinking when he made it? The paint looks thick, which shapes our experience of the painting and contributes to its emotional and intellectual resonances. I'm drawn to the figure's gaze, which can communicate feeling, intention, or meaning. She is in conversation with the white dove. The dove is in conversation with the floating cube. I see how this piece relates to the artist's wider practice and body of work, as well as the work of other painters. Artists are in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, inspiring one another’s creativity. Painting is a form of embodied expression which embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations and meaning over fixed or definitive readings.