Mirsad Begić: Art as a Condensation of Space and Time
A year and a half in Belgrade and Mirsad Begić just reminded me why I started paying attention to art in the first place.
Born 1953 in Glamoč, trained in Ljubljana and at St. Martin's School of Art in London, Begić has spent decades building a practice that refuses to separate sculpture from painting. The works currently at Galerija Novak are the inner core of his sculptural thinking, drawing as the first impulse, volume surviving the move from three dimensions to two, the figure becoming an archetypal sign of human presence rather than a portrait of anyone in particular.
The Presidential Order of Merit, the Prešeren Fund Award, and a career's worth of public monuments across Slovenia tell you what the institutions think. Walking into that grey industrial room on a Tuesday tells you something the awards cannot.
I am already wondering what Belgrade will show me next and I want you along for it.
📍 Galerija Novak, Belgrade 🎨 Mirsad Begić Art as a Condensation of Space and Time