{"id":5330,"date":"2017-02-02T15:12:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T20:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=5330"},"modified":"2018-05-25T03:18:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T07:18:12","slug":"milovan-destil-markovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/milovan-destil-markovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Milovan Destil Markovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9673\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5330-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/MILOVANDESTILMARKOVIC.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/MILOVANDESTILMARKOVIC.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/MILOVANDESTILMARKOVIC.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_5370\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5370\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5370 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_Biennial_Belgrade.jpg?resize=625%2C424&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"625\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_Biennial_Belgrade.jpg?resize=1024%2C695&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_Biennial_Belgrade.jpg?resize=300%2C204&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_Biennial_Belgrade.jpg?resize=768%2C521&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_Biennial_Belgrade.jpg?resize=624%2C424&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_Biennial_Belgrade.jpg?w=1264&amp;ssl=1 1264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"s1\">Milovan Destil Markovic at <a href=\"http:\/\/oktobarskisalon.org\/home\/\"><span class=\"s2\">56th October Salon Biennial Belgrade<\/span><\/a>, October 2016, Belgrade<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markovic.org\/\">Milovan Destil Markovic<\/a> studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Arts, Belgrade, where he graduated in 1983. Since 1986 he lives and works in Berlin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">His work was featured at 42nd Venice Biennial\u00a0<i>Aperto<\/i>, 4th Istanbul Biennial, 46th Venice Biennial, 6th Triennial New Delhi, 5th Biennial Cetinje, 19th Sao Paulo Biennial, 56th October Salon Belgrade, Hamburger Bahnhof \u2013 Museum f\u00fcr Gegenwart Berlin, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center New York, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Ludwig Museum for Contemporary Art Budapest, Saarland Museum Saarbr\u00fccken, The Artists\u2019 Museum Lodz, National Museum Prague, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Landesmuseum Graz, Kunstmuseum Duesseldorf, Art Museum Foundation \u2013 Military Museum Istanbul, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Kunstverein Hamburg, Kunstvoreningen Bergen, Galleri F15 Oslo, Nishido Contemporary Art Tokyo, Fei Contemporary Art Center Shanghai and many others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Markovic\u2019s series of so called Transfigurative Paintings are the result of intensive research and the attempt to develop and expand the idea of the portrait beyond the concepts known from all previous ages. In one series of his Transfigurative Paintings, he portrayed some of the most renowned women of the world with lipsticks (over 100 lipsticks are evenly applied onto a velvet surface that can even be touched). These faces are familiar to the public because they have been reproduced thousands of times in the media: in newspapers, television, on the internet, etc. The painting material used is the most common substance for women\u2019s daily make-up, for making or reinventing the face. Markovic indeed holds make-up as a symbol for women\u2019s portraiture. In this way he is creating through the lipstick portraits a deeply colourful, sensual and erotic hymn to the female gender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Another series of Transfigurative Paintings, unveils a completely different setting: unemployment, homelessness and social \u2013 that is: public invisibility. Here Markovic\u2019s portraits homeless men, who \u2013 in contrast to the lipstick portraits \u2013 are anonymous to the spectator. These text portraits are based upon interviews Markovic performed with homeless men in various world capitals. They represent the men\u2019s identities through their life stories; the real person is transfigured via an autobiographical text that is fixed onto canvas with pigments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The artist newest series of Barcoded Paintings develops the topic of referencing to a reality in a different pictorial way: the work is abstract and\/but readable. The colourful and bright stripes on canvases signify written words. Every text can be translated into a barcode that is the product of a systematic process of codification, at the end of which only a rhythmic series of vertical lines remains. Markovic\u2019s bar codes veil their political content, hiding it behind a normalized form. This could be understood as a critique of the intransparant structures of markets that similarly conceal global deficiencies and injustices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On 23 February at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/galerie-halverscheid.de\/en\/milovan-destil-markovic\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Dirk Halverscheid Galerie<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in Munich, Germany, <\/span><span class=\"s3\">Milovan Destil Markovic has an exhibition opening of these works.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5371\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5371\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5371 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_BankMeNow.jpg?resize=625%2C214&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"625\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_BankMeNow.jpg?resize=1024%2C350&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_BankMeNow.jpg?resize=300%2C103&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_BankMeNow.jpg?resize=768%2C262&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_BankMeNow.jpg?resize=624%2C213&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_BankMeNow.jpg?w=1718&amp;ssl=1 1718w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_BankMeNow.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cBANK ME NOW!\u201d (Barcode: The Abduction of Europe), pigment, spray and gold leaf on canvas, 86 cm x 250 cm, 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5372\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5372 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_InBankWeTrust.jpg?resize=625%2C220&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"625\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_InBankWeTrust.jpg?resize=1024%2C361&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_InBankWeTrust.jpg?resize=300%2C106&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_InBankWeTrust.jpg?resize=768%2C271&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_InBankWeTrust.jpg?resize=624%2C220&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_InBankWeTrust.jpg?w=1716&amp;ssl=1 1716w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Markovic_InBankWeTrust.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;IN BANK WE TRUST\u201d (Barcode: The Abduction of Europe), pigment, spray and gold leaf on canvas, 86 cm x 250 cm, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/MILOVANDESTILMARKOVIC.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listMilovan Destil Markovic studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Arts, Belgrade, where he graduated in 1983. Since 1986 he lives and works in Berlin. 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