Odluka 2018

Dragan Ilić Di Vogo made this painting, Odluka, with what looks like oil paint, and maybe some glazing or scumbling to get that luminous flesh. I imagine Di Vogo starting with the figure, tilting back, caught in a moment of thought. What kind of decision might she be making? The colour palette is warm, fleshy pinks and browns and creams, with touches of bright color dropped in like jewels or candy. The figure almost seems to be emerging out of that warm ground, the way figures do in a late Titian. I keep thinking about the little tattoos, the flowers… all these little symbols floating around the figure. There is an odd, dreamlike, surreal quality. Di Vogo is adding to the tradition of painting, not copying it. And that's what it is all about: that conversation across time, where one painter answers another.