David Maljkovic: In the Pictorial Code

Quinta do Quetzal, Portugal
Dvir Gallery is delighted to share the upcoming solo exhibition of David Maljkovic, 'In the Pictorial Code' at the Quinta do Quetzal, in Portugal. 
At the core of Maljković’s practice is a regimented exploration of formalist concerns. Whilst narrative is the driving element at the origin of a project, the artist’s varied means of visual implementation consistently and profoundly modifies and compromises its supremacy, whether that is through photography, video, sculpture, installation, collage or painting. In the Pictorial Code presents recent works that play with the idea of painting as a guardian of time and the painter’s position as its witness.
 
The exhibition establishes a marking system that embodies the image’s position within the author’s practice, and also tracks its displacement into other media. In recent works, this mediating role of different media is in the background, while the return to the language of painting assumes the right of precedence. This immersion in the painting process and the painting language itself is realized through the processes of expanding, narrowing and overlapping the syntax of the painting and its protagonists. The very effects of that language are separated from the motive, and on the other hand, they are looking for its rightful place. Motifs become characters, and their roles change in the construction of painting itself.
 
18/02/2023 – 31/08/2023. 
 
More information here 
Feb 18, 2023
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