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Miloje Markovic collects, classifies and paints discarded, lost, unknown, old objects whose function has disappeared, vanished in time, which are still existing only as artifacts, as naked objects. This enterprise is made so much more difficult by the fact that these objects come from the countryside, whose ancient world is almost destroyed. We can recognize some of these objects: a rusty hinge with padlock from a village door, a mortar, earthenware water jug, candlestick, jar, flask, pitcher, copper cauldron, frying pan, shoulder pole, earthenware dish used for baking bread, wooden tub, table, peasant leather coat, towel, embroidery, box, tripod. Objects such as the tripod have long since lost any useful purpose. Each of them, especially those poetical and soft ones, like towel or embroidery, in the past was charged with a complex of meanings and rituals.

In a world of not only declining but also vanished values, Markovic restores the object order, trust in the world and the world of objects, in the reality and realism as a form of painting. This establishment of value, in the background of his art, seems to be a project which has no phenomenological boundaries and which <is more precious than creation of an autochtonous artistic world.

Dejan Doric, Art Critic

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