
MARKO CHAKALOVIC
Montenegro
Cycle “B”
“Using clear visual elements, my art can be described as a fantasy that contains surrealistic, allegorical and occasionally satirical elements. The figure dominates in my works in one such expressive and sometimes classic way, occupying a central place in my work. It is an inspiration and a phase of constant development and continuous artistic and philosophical research in the field of sculpture or painting. My art story is about a human being in the present, the era of technology, material values and the lack of ethics; this leads its existence into a merciless embrace of alienation. The human, encouraged by a kind of personal ‘demiurge’, tries to create his own world from a bunch of ideas that draw the limits of rationality. By idealizing the experience, knowledge is the only result of this personal experience, and everything that remains, in that case, is ‘I’ now.”

ARTWORKS

"Silentium" – Silence – N°1444
"Silentium" - Silence "
2019
426 cm x 172 cm x 50 cm
Epoxy, foam, plaster, wire, polyester, pattern

"Confusion " - N°0817
"Confusion "
2019
50 cm x 25 cm x 25 cm

"Acta est fabula, plaudite" The story is done, applause - N°1221
"Acta est fabula, plaudite" The story is done, applause "
2018
433 cm. x 180 cm. x 36 cm.
Epoxy, foam, plaster, wire, polyester, pattern

"Old couch and beast" N°0781
"Old couch and beast"
2017
280 cm x 110 cm x 84 cm
Epoxy, foam, plaster, wire, polyester, pattern

"Bestiarium I " N°0752
Marko Chakalovic, Bar | Montenegro
"Bestiarium I "
135 cm x 123 cm x 35 cm
Epoxy, foam, plaster, wire, polyester, pattern

"Bestiarium II " N°0753
Marko Chakalovic, Bar | Montenegro
"Bestiarium II "
135 cm x 120 cm x 35 cm
Epoxy, foam, plaster, wire, polyester, pattern

"Bestiarium III " N°0754
"Bestiarium III "
85 cm x 96 cm x 23 cm
Epoxy, foam, plaster, wire, polyester, pattern

"Landscape with hanger" N°0751
Marko Chakalovic, Bar | Montenegro
"Landscape with hanger"
2016
65 x 25 cm
Acrylic, epoxy, foam, polyester
"Rain in Maasmechelen" N°0750
This is one expressive scene divided with strong lines and surfaces. Painting represents my personal expression of rainy days in Maasmechelen and I present it as kind of mixed way between expressionism and cubism
Painting represents my personal expression of rainy days in Maasmechelen and I present it as kind of mixed way between expressionism and cubism
Marko Chakalovic, Bar | Montenegro
"Rain in Maasmechelen"
2016
121 x 60,5 cm
Acrylic, epoxy, foam, polyester
"Hope" N°0571
The painting shows a young woman where the accent was placed on her torso as the main detail. Rotten wooden and rusty metal structures are around her, so it looks like she is nailed to the structures or she wants to break free. The painting represents a young person which is caught by time and surrounded with stereotypes
Painting represents a young person which is caught by time and surrounded with stereotypes
Marko Chakalovic, Bar | Montenegro
"Hope"
2016
oil, canvas
"Garden of emotions" and "The Dreamers" N°0782
Part 1:
The legend claims that before emotions were creatures and they had their bodies, God decided to make a man and then he collects them and makes from their bodies to put them in the human soul.
I have shown them like they have bodies again and I picked some of them to create more poetical piece which will remind to combination of antique and modern mythology. So , I used as inspiration : greed, jealousy, shame, love, madness, fear, hatred, desire, wisdom and pleasure.
Part 2:
I was inspired with true Montenegrin story about "Three Sisters ( Tri Sorele)" . They were waiting for the whole life their husbands, sailors, to return from the ocean, but they never returned and after years and years of hope and dreams they died with faith and same desire in silence.
Sad a??
So we can see a girl in the embrace of her beloved with a hand extended to the observer, a girl who is hugging the to, while the imagination becomes a mother and a sleeping girl between them. The male figure with the dog's head represents their strength and will of their dreams.
2017
150 x 210 cm
Acrylic plaster