Aleksandar Duravcevic
Aleksandar Duravcevic’s sculptures, installations, and drawings focus on the world’s dualities–between cultures, within history, and between life and death. Based on his personal experiences of growing up in wartime Yugoslavia and later emigrating to the US, his works offer metaphors for identity. "My images are based on anatomical and anthropological diagrams. Through these images I am trying to establish a dialogue–a continuous investigation which stems from a personal need to open, to dissect, to catalog, to make a mark,” says the artist.
The artist creates objects that invite close inspection, often reconsideration–those that attract may raise unsettling questions about their histories, while those that disturb may be rooted in fond memories. He frequently uses glass and mirrored surfaces to create a tension of opposites. For instance, the taxidermied horse in the installation Another Winter (2007) features a unicorn’s horn that touches a large black mirror, implying a darker alternate dimension for the fantastical creature.
Aleksandar Duravcevic’s works have been included in exhibitions in prestigious museums around the world, including The Uffizi in Florence and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where they are part of the permanent collection. He is the recipient of a New York Foundation for …
Aleksandar Duravcevic’s sculptures, installations, and drawings focus on the world’s dualities–between cultures, within history, and between life and death. Based on his personal experiences of growing up in wartime Yugoslavia and later emigrating to the US, his works offer metaphors for identity. "My images are based on anatomical and anthropological diagrams. Through these images I am trying to establish a dialogue–a continuous investigation which stems from a personal need to open, to dissect, to catalog, to make a mark,” says the artist.
The artist creates objects that invite close inspection, often reconsideration–those that attract may raise unsettling questions about their histories, while those that disturb may be rooted in fond memories. He frequently uses glass and mirrored surfaces to create a tension of opposites. For instance, the taxidermied horse in the installation Another Winter (2007) features a unicorn’s horn that touches a large black mirror, implying a darker alternate dimension for the fantastical creature.
Aleksandar Duravcevic’s works have been included in exhibitions in prestigious museums around the world, including The Uffizi in Florence and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where they are part of the permanent collection. He is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant and the 2015 representative of Montenegro at the 56th Venice Biennale.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Columbia University, New York, NY
San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Springfield Museum, Springfield, MO
Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany
