Works by Sladjan Nedeljkovic on show

Artist Sladjan Nedeljkovic currently has an exhibition of his works on show at the Billing Bild Gallery in Baar. Anyone going along should make a point of looking very closely at all the detail in them, some with brief texts, as this is a particular feature of his style.
 
It was in 1982 that the now 47-year-old moved to Zug where, after qualifying as a draughtsman specialising in buildings, he went on to attend the School of Design, now the Höhere Fachschule für Technik und Gestaltung (HFTG), which is part of the Zug Industrial Trades Training Centre (GIBZ). He subsequently went on to attend the Ecole Supérieure d’Art Visuel in Geneva and Goldsmiths (College), part of the University of London, where he gained an MA in Fine Arts.
 
Anyone who looks at his works will not be surprised to hear he has won innumerable prizes and been the recipient of many grants.
 
He now lives in Berlin, in the multi-cultural district of Neukölln, which he has also portrayed in a number of pencil drawings. In addition to the graphics, as mentioned, he sometimes adds lines of humorous script. He has done the same in pictures of Genoa, too. “It so happened that I met locals who told me all about the Italian port city, so I added a few stories to the picture, too,” he explained.
 
Anyone attending this exhibition at number 1 Haldenstrasse in the municipality will also notice double pages taken from newspapers where the text has been sprayed over in silver, leaving only the photographs visible. While both graphics and texts are important to him, he said it was interesting to experience what happened when the text was withheld, leaving one to react intuitively to the pictures. He has also created some aural works which can be heard via ear-phones, interestingly alluding to the old spinning mill in Baar, and the rooms now used as an art gallery.
 
Irene Müller, the curator of the exhibition, commented on the special way in which Nedeljkovic works, critically confronting the media, the pictures used, and digitisation, questioning everything.
 
The exhibition continues until Sunday 19 June.