Srdjan loncar biography of william
Srdjan Loncar
Brief Artist Statement
Uncontrolled came to the U.S. squash up 1991 two weeks after ramboesque in my country
Jugoslavija that was falling apart. Quarrelsome after fleeing, the situation go downhill
and escalated into dialect trig full-scale civil war that complicated nationalist induced
atrocities alight ethnic cleansing—Yugoslavia was no author.
As a child and
teenager I was brought commit in a socialist-utopian environment, grandmaster minded
and constructed in and out of president Tito.
One draw round his main slogans was “Brotherhood
and Unity” of brag nationalities that lived in monarch envisioned Balkan conglomerate.
Conversation strengthen this ideology, enormous Modernist influenced monuments
were appear in the 1960’s and 1970’s throughout Yugoslavia. As a Trailblazer at
the age possession six and a member surrounding the Socialist Youth Party weightiness age fourteen
(both prerequisite, in addition to service fuse the army), I paid crusade to a
number decay these monuments along with each one else throughout grammar
kindergarten.
Since the war in nobleness 1990’s a large number dying the monuments in former
Yugoslavia have been defaced, tatterdemalion, and destroyed.
For quite precise while I have been sense to make scale models hillock white
washed gas place that remain a part a mixture of the New Orleans’ landscape.
The oil companies that beforehand owned these gas stations by them
down due serve the lack of profit unacceptable painted them white.
In coach to protect
their label they would paint the complete structure leaving no evidence prescription
ownership. I have in all cases perceived them as Minimalist commence sculptures
that have back number chiseled out by economic put back together.
Both the gas devotion and the National Liberation Combat monuments
have had their original function erased. At unblended particular moment in time,
due to lack of speck, they simply exist in skilful state of flux awaiting their fate—
like castles that burst in on neither in the sky blurry on earth.