Merkur 2013

Dragan Ilić Di Vogo painted 'Merkur' with oils, but when is anyone's guess. The horse is the hero here, but it’s not alone. It’s like this majestic creature is caught in a cosmic ballet, surrounded by moons and strange, hovering geometry. I wonder if Dragan was thinking about the weight of the world, you know? That feeling that everything's connected and spinning around us? I feel the pull between wanting to paint every single hair on that mane and just letting the brush fly. There’s this circular arc hovering around the horse – is it stable or about to fall apart? I feel the anxiety here. Painting is like thinking out loud, and Dragan, wherever he is, is having a conversation across time with any painter who's ever tried to capture the uncapturable.