Metamorphosis 2018

Dragan Ilić Di Vogo conjures up this oil painting, Metamorphosis, and it feels like a dark fairy tale. The dominant color is this deep red, creating an intense, almost unsettling atmosphere. It's like looking into the depths of a dream, maybe one you didn't want to have. I am curious about the process here. Imagine the artist layering paint, shifting, and letting the forms emerge through intuition and maybe even a bit of error? The subject is a young girl with braided pigtails like horns who seems to be undergoing some kind of transformation, blurring the line between human and animal. I sympathize with Di Vogo and wonder what he thought when creating this? There are butterflies, and a bear or wolf merging from the girl’s form. The color palette is intense, there is a beautiful tension between the cute braids and the darkness of the image. Di Vogo's work reminds us that artists are always in dialogue, exchanging ideas across time, inspiring each other's creativity. Painting, in its ambiguity, invites us to embrace uncertainty and discover multiple interpretations.