Odluka 2018

Dragan Ilić Di Vogo’s painting "Odluka" presents us with a figure rendered in subtle oil paints, surrounded by all kinds of surreal objects and abstract shapes. The texture is so smooth it’s almost like glass, the skin tones achieved through careful blending. Look at the area around the left shoulder, the way the light gently rolls across the surface suggests a living, breathing form. Then, the addition of these hard-edged geometric shapes throws everything off balance. There is a kind of ambiguity I find super interesting because you are never quite sure what is solid and what is not. It reminds me a little of the dreamlike quality in some of Remedios Varo’s paintings, the way she mixed the scientific with the mystical. In the end, art is about asking questions, and Di Vogo isn't giving us any easy answers here.