Ivo Nikić (b. 1974), Livestock, 2018

oil, canvas, 100 x 80 cm, signed on the reverse: 'IVO NIKIĆ | "ŻYWORÓDKA" | 2018.'
EXHIBITED:
2018 - solo exhibition "ORBS", rabbithole ART ROOM, Warsaw In 2003 he received his diploma in painting from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Prof. Jaroslaw Modzelewski. His work includes painting, photography, installations, objects, video and actions in urban space. He is interested in the cityscape, corporeality, music, "inner dirt," waste and aesthetic scrap. He draws on street-art style - stencils and spray paint - which he combines with laser technique and texture painting; sometimes he paints with magnetic paints to attach additional, mobile elements to the picture plane. He is inspired by the sampling technique used in music. He surprises with the juxtaposition of motifs, aesthetic nonchalance, and a sense of humor. He creates an atmosphere of horror. From the gloom he brings out various shapes, spots that are traces of man's bodily existence. He plays with associations, dismantles the World into parts, questions ready-made solutions, reevaluates the categories of beauty and ugliness. Ivo Nikić has been co-founding (together with Piotr Kopik and Karol Radziszewski) the szu szu group since 2001. In 2006 he was the recipient of an Artist-In-Residence grant in Bern, Switzerland. He has participated in numerous group and individual exhibitions in Poland (including CCA Ujazdowski Castle, BWA Zielona Gora, Studio Gallery, Arsenal Gallery in Poznan, Focus Łódź Biennale) and abroad (including: Humboldt Berlin, Umspannwerk; Bat-Yam International Biennale of Landscape Urbanism in Israel; Rotor in Graz, Tokyo Fashion Week).