Milovan Destil Marković

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Milovan Destil Marković
Born (1957-11-09) November 9, 1957 (age 66)
Nationality
Serbian
Known forVisual arts

Milovan DeStil Marković (

visual artist, who began his career in the early 1980s. Active for over two decades, he is recently described as father of transfigurative painting and the text portrait.[citation needed
] Visiting Professor Art in Context at the University of Arts, Berlin.

Biography

Early life

Marković's grandfather was a known distiller of

Faculty of Philosophy
, but was not accepted. In the same year, he began preparing for the Faculty of Fine Art.

Belgrade

From 1977 to 1983, Marković was a student at the Faculty of

Student Culture Centre (SKC) in Belgrade where he organised projects, concerts, events and exhibited many times. On April 14, 1981, he proclaimed the World Art Day and became the first Monument of Art performing on Marshal Tito street in front of the SKC. Together with Vlasta Mikić he founded the artist group Žestoki in 1982 and opened the club Akademija (popularly called "Rupa") in the cellar of the Faculty of Fine Arts. Club Akademija was a very important place for the art and new wave
scene of the eighties in Belgrade and achieved cult status. Marković studied icons and frescos in
Venice Biennial
.

Berlin

In 1986, Marković moved to

Nürnberg
. In 2008, his monograph Milovan DeStil Markovic was published.

Selected works

Portrait of Peter Scheller, 2006

In his recent work, Marković investigates the possibilities and challenges as well as the limits of visual representation in general, but is primarily concerned with the role of the close-up. Marković draws attention to the politics of representation involved in the production of visibility and invisibility of the human face. Both of these productions are socially conditioned and socially performed. Moreover, as often as not, they are produced in/by public space, where the "ideal face" may be used for fulfilling ideological, propaganda or market purposes.

"Lipstick Portraits", since 1995

In the first series of Transfigurative Paintings, he portrayed women he considered to be the most renowned women of the world. Their faces are familiar to us because they have been reproduced thousands of times in the media: in newspapers, television, on the internet, etc. For each of the Lipstick Portraits, over 100 lipsticks are evenly applied onto a velvet surface. The painting material used is the most common substance for women's daily make-up, for making or reinventing the face. Marković indeed holds that make-up is women's self-portraiture. This series deals with female celebrities who owe their fame and public visibility to their respective profession or career.

"Text Portraits", since 2002

His most recent series of Transfigurative Paintings unveils a completely different setting: unemployment, homelessness and social – that is: public – invisibility. In contrast to the women's portraits in which, by looking at the figure-less images, we rely on our memorized images to try to recall the women's "real" faces as we know them from the media, in Marković's portraits of homeless men, we are facing pictures of individuals who are anonymous to us, as they belong to a social group that each society in which they live tends to make invisible. These text portraits are based upon interviews Marković performed with homeless men in various world capitals. They represent the men's identities through their life stories; the real person is transfigured via an autobiographical text that is fixed onto canvas with pigments.

Prizes and awards

Bibliography

Monographs, books and catalogues of solo exhibitions

  • Milovan Destil Markovic – Works 1980-2020, monograph, Banja Luka: Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade: Kulturni centar Beograda and SEEcult.org, 2019. Text: Danijela Purešević, Bojana Pejić, Benedikt Stegmayer, Boris Buden, Miroljub Mima Marjanovic.
  • Milovan DeStil Markovic, monograph, Čačak: Umetnička galerija "Nadežda Petrović", 2008. Text:
    Jovan Despotovic
    , Benedikt Stegmayer, Boris Buden.
  • Markovic: Transfigurative Works, monograph, Nürnberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2006. Text: Boris Buden, Bojana Pejić, Claudia Wahjudi, Yoshiko Honda
  • Markovic: Transfigurative Painting, Berlin: Galerie A. von Scholz, 1996
  • Marković: Prototipovi / Prototypes, Belgrade: Galerija Zvono, 1996. Text: Miroljub Marjanović
  • Milovan De Stil Marković, Prijepolje: Dom revolucije, 1991
  • Milovan Markovic, Sissel Tolaas, Laboratorium - The Key of Creation, book, Berlin: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), 1988
  • Destil Marković, Vlasta Mikić, Novi Sad: Galerija kulturnog centra, 1985. Text:
    Ješa Denegri
  • De Stil Marković: Euharistija, Belgrade:
    Museum of Contemporary Art
    , 1985. Text: Bojana Pejić
  • De Stil Marković: Crni prostor / Black Space, Belgrade:
    Student Culture Centre
    (SKC), 1983. Text: Bojana Pejić
  • De Stil Marković: Fragmenti slike: spomenik, Belgrade:
    Student Culture Centre
    (SKC), 1982. Text: Bojana Pejić

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