Joškin Šiljan
Double Nude
paintings and drawings
Fortress Pavilion
Joškin Šiljan is exhibiting at the Gallery of Contemporary Art Niš from June 19 to July 13. The exhibition of his paintings and drawings, entitled “Double Nude”, will be officially opened on Thursday at 8 p.m., at the Fortress Pavilion.
The exhibition in Niš includes works from several different cycles, and the title is due to the most recent one.
“Through his creative work, Joškin Šiljan creates new worlds, while simultaneously expressing the philosophical nature of his thoughts. His painting constantly explores pure art, which expresses freedom and spontaneity both through the iconography itself and authentic visual language, as well as through reflections and the artist’s understanding of the world, which is as such light and simple, unburdeningly fresh.”, observes art historian Ana Kršljanin, curator of the ŠTAB gallery. She sensitively concludes that the artist “swims in the limitlessness of themes, movements and beings that, with witty and long titles, give the viewer an impulse that he needs to feel and convey, allowing him to be the one who completes the picture and the story.”.
Joškin Šiljan (Nebojša Stojković, 1953, Pirot) belongs to the generation of artists who emerged on the art scene in the 1990s. He is one of the most famous and active authors on the regional art scene, and his exhibitions in world museums and galleries make him internationally visible and recognized. He is a participant in a large number of art colonies and residency programs in the country and abroad. His works are in significant museum, company and private collections around the world. He has won several significant awards, including: the Golden Palette of ULUS (2006), the Grand Prize at the 14th Biennial of Naive and Marginal Art (2009), the Main Prize for Painting on Paper OSTEN (2016), and the Golden OSTEN for Drawing (2018).
He lives and works in Grdelica.
The exhibition of his works can be visited by the public until July 13, in the Paviljpn in Tvrđava.