EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY MILJAN STEVANOVIĆ
Between the Visible and the Implied Aesthetics of Balance in Utopian Visions
on Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 7 p.m., Pavilion in Tvrđava, Galleries of Contemporary Fine Arts Niš
Miljan Stevanović was born in 1991 in Vranje. He completed his basic academic studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in the class of Prof. Čedomir Vasić, and received his master’s degree at the same faculty in the class of Prof. Dobrica Bisenić. He received his doctorate in 2021 in the class of Professor Dr. Vladimir Milanović. He is employed at Metropolitan University as an assistant professor.
He has had seven solo exhibitions in Belgrade, Niš (2018), Novi Sad and Slovakia.
Miljan Stevanović draws his inspiration from nature. Landscape is the occasion and basis of his paintings. He constructs the visual relationship and composition based on the landscape he sees, transforming it into large painted surfaces of pastel colors, without much narration. He deposits, absorbs, refracts the color. Flora is reduced and occasionally emerges from the dreamlike landscape. The landscape is glimpsed from the painted surfaces like ghosts, as in dreams of unclear sequences. Does the artist seduce us with such a scene, drawing attention to the matter that surrounds us and titillating us with a sense of comfort and sweetness, while we are surrounded by beautiful landscapes and divine meadows? Through his works we also feel the smell of ozone, oxygen, fog, but also a variety of plants. He transposes the visual impression into an emotional state. Narrative and mere depiction of nature are negligible for him precisely for this reason, but he places the emphasis on the impression. With a specific way of treating color, through line and pasty brushstroke, he redefines the classical medium of painting. With the harmony of painted surfaces, lines and structures, the artist builds an individual artistic style in his own unique way.
The title of his exhibition is Between the Visible and the Implied: Aesthetics of Balance in Utopian Visions. Utopia is not unattainable but transformation through the act of painting. The lyrical overtone is a visual silence in order to notice the boundary between the visible and the implied.
Thus, Stevanović builds a composition of abstract surfaces, amorphous form in a self-contained effect, resembling a pastel thread embroidery of horizontal rows. The color follows the shadow and shape of the desired scene like a dream or a mirage. Everything seems fragile and tender, emphasizing the spiritual and emotional experience that the artist is having at that moment.
Miljan Stevanović’s exhibition will run from November 13 to 30, 2025.