STATEMENT
Usually, the place where I live at any given moment, with its daily routines, dicatets the choice of my subject matter. As a rule, I am interested in the objects of everyday life, which appear to be surprisingly uniform wherever you go. In my work, they unite collective and personal experience. I never recycle real objects in a manner of an assemblage, but rather present my own associative, monumentalized interpretation of their form. My choice of medium and mode of craftsmanship both suggest underlying narrative context, but also provide monumental quality of architecture to my works. My objects are reduced to a gallery format, but I see them as large-scale urban sculptures evocative of common human activities.
BIOGRAPHY
DJORDJE ARALICA was born in 1963 in Otočac, Croatia. He graduated sculpture from the University Of Fine Arts, Belgrade, and is a member of ULUS (National Association of Artists) and ULUPUDS (National Association of Applied Artists and Designers). Aralica resided in US and in several Mediterranean countries. He presented his work on group and solo shows in Serbia, Montenegro, F.Y.R. of Macedonia, U.S.A., and Israel. His sculptures are in the collections in U.S, Australia, Serbia, Montenegro, and F.Y.R of Macedonia. Aralica's works in various media: terracotta, metal, and stone. His artistic interest is the realm of inter-relationship between the sculptural form, medium, and space, as well as in the often contradiction between the art of sculpture and the ephemeral context of the modern world.
EXHIBITIONS
2018 3D, Modern Gallery Lazarevac, Lazarevac
2018 Chain Loop, Gallery 73, Beograd
2017 Chain Effect, SULUJ Gallery, Beograd
2017 Skulptur-O-rama, Gallery of the Cultural Center, Šabac
2017 No Comment, National Museum Smederevska Palanka, Gallery of Modern Art, Smederevska Palanka
2017 DNK, Gallery of Contemporary Visual Arts, Salon 77, Niš
2016 #djordje_aralica, The House of King Peter I, Belgrade
2016 WaterAirTime, Art Gallery 'Stara Kapetanija', Zemun
2016 Five Years Straight, Palace of Culture Čačak, Art Salon, Čačak
2015 Metal BRUT, Galllery of Contemporary Art, Pančevo
2015 MIND YOUR HAT, ULUS Gallery, Belgrade
2014 HANDMADE, Cultural Center of Novi Sad, Novi Sad
2014 The Weight of Chains, Ilija M. Kolarac Gallery, Belgrade
2013 December Selection, Center for Study in Cultural Development, Belgrade
2013 Wheels and Suitcases, MMC Gallery, Novi Pazar
2013 Ad Libris, Gallery ‘Beograd’, Belgrade
2012 Cityscapes, BLOCK, Blok Gallery, Novi Beograd
2010 City Luggage, ULUS Gallery, Belgrade
2009 TEXAS–Keyholes, Forster Art Complex, Sherman TX, USA
2006 SpaceFormJERUSALEM, Kenyon Institute, Jerusalem, Israel
1999 Venus, All Gallery, Podgorica, Montenegro
1998 Bad Girls, Gallery 12+, Belgrade
CATALOGUES
http://djordjearalica.com/index.php/en/author#sigFreeIda2e0659382
LINKS
| https://www.instagram.com/djordje_aralica | |
| https://www.facebook.com/aralica.djordje | |
| https://www.pinterest.com/djaralica | |
| YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMfb_ztjO2qWNlecyafvoAQ |
| Saatchiart | https://www.saatchiart.com/aralica |
| Etsy | https://www.etsy.com/shop/ARALICA |
| Artfinder | https://www.artfinder.com/djordje-aralica |
| YouPic | https://youpic.com/photographer/djaralica |
| Hashtags | #aralica #djordje_aralica |