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
Classical sculpture with surreal and steam punk elements.
This is a story about comunication between young people in era of social media. This work represent my reaction and experiance to fake kind of comunication . Today many people avoid to talk directly and to express their true emotions ,i that case they choose to be apart of abstract space when word become and convert just in a digital copy of our reallity.
Composition contain three figures where two of them represent man and woman which are conected with wires in abstract word of the internet. Two hearts are their hearts , they discribe emotions which are online and visible to anyone. Central figure is personification of comunication , she has eight arms what symbolise eight popular social media in the world. To many words without real comunication between couples or friends are just a part of our life which standing on our displays. We are in silence.
Marko Chakalovic, Bar | Montenegro
"Silentium" - Silence "
2019
426 cm x 172 cm x 50 cm
"Silentium" - Silence "
2019
426 cm x 172 cm x 50 cm
Epoxy, foam, plaster, wire, polyester, pattern
"Confusion " - N°0817
Classical sculpture with surreal elements.
Idea for this work simply was to give a face and illustratre word confusion. Quest is to conect few faces in one portrait as final composition.
Marko Chakalovic, Bar | Montenegro
"Confusion "
2019
50 cm x 25 cm x 25 cm
"Confusion "
2019
50 cm x 25 cm x 25 cm
Epoxy, foam, plaster, wire, polyester, pattern
"Acta est fabula, plaudite" The story is done, applause - N°1221
Classical sculpture with surreal elements.
This is a story about the two brave brothers ( ex warriors ) who were looking for a flower that will give them eternal life.
So they entered in the forbidden forest where they encountered the protectors of that place, the forest fairy, who wanted a king they didn't have. One fairy was attracted by one of them. Then older guy began to tell the stories about himself and his works in superlatives, but he lied a lot.
Fairy fell in love with him and she toughthe is good to be a king. She began to sing some magic words so slowley as whispering and at that moment he looked in her face and realized that she turned him into a half-timber and that he got an eternal life but he will be stuck in one place forever.
His younger brother than realizes that it is better to live once and accept the weight and beauty of life than to be eternally tied to the land as plant and how long tongue and pretend you are smartest and best in everything can cost you and be worst than death. He decides to escape from the forest and returns to his life.
Than the story ends.
Marko Chakalovic, Bar | Montenegro
"Acta est fabula, plaudite" The story is done, applause "
2018
433 cm. x 180 cm. x 36 cm.
"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
Surrealistic-expressive sculpture.
Is the hunter safe when he is near this beast ? Is it or not ?
If there is no provocation, wild boar is not dangerous to hunter. Sometimes when you're hunting ( looking for ) knowledge, new experiences, your dream, true love ( usually is not ) you can be both a hunter and a beast or prey of your own ideas.
Marko Chakalovic, Bar | Montenegro
"Old couch and beast"
2017
280 cm x 110 cm x 84 cm
"Old couch and beast"
2017
280 cm x 110 cm x 84 cm
Epoxy, foam, plaster, wire, polyester, pattern
"Bestiarium I " N°0752
This sculpture is in surrealistic style which speaks about 'figurative' animalistic destructions
The sculpture presents an imaginary creature.
Marko Chakalovic, Bar | Montenegro
"Bestiarium I "
135 cm x 123 cm x 35 cm
Epoxy, foam, plaster, wire, polyester, pattern
"Bestiarium II " N°0753
The sculpture presents an imaginary creature.
This sculpture is in realistic style which speaks about 'figurative' animalistic destructions
Marko Chakalovic, Bar | Montenegro
"Bestiarium II "
135 cm x 120 cm x 35 cm
Epoxy, foam, plaster, wire, polyester, pattern
"Bestiarium III " N°0754
The sculpture presents an imaginary creature.
This sculpture is in surrealistic style which speaks about 'figurative' animalistic destructions
Marko Chakalovic, Bar | Montenegro
"Bestiarium III "
85 cm x 96 cm x 23 cm
Epoxy, foam, plaster, wire, polyester, pattern
"Bestiarium III "
85 cm x 96 cm x 23 cm
Epoxy, foam, plaster, wire, polyester, pattern
"Landscape with hanger" N°0751
The painting presents a combination between landscape and still life.
Painting is created from layers of epoxy resin and acrylic colours on every layer. On this painting we can see combination between two topics, landscape and still life. Both motives are connected and expressed as one abstract scene
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
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