Samo vas gledam 2009

Dragan Ilić Di Vogo asks you, Samo vas gledam. What a marvelous headdress she has, rising like an ornamental castle of softly colored, porous stone against the clear sky. It must have been so exciting to watch the forms and colors emerge, blending, dripping, finding their place in the world. I wonder if Dragan Ilić Di Vogo was trying to depict the power of observation, or to suggest the idea of judgment? The way she holds the blue line with one hand outstretched, is she measuring us? Or perhaps she is measuring the distance between one world and another. There is a painting by Philip Guston, Painting, Smoking, Eating, that springs to mind; these two artists are in conversation, across time. They are exchanging ideas, inspiring one another’s creativity. Painting allows for multiple interpretations, it’s all about the embodied expression of ambiguity.