Filip
Mirazovic
Filip Mirazović was born in 1977 in Šabac, Serbia. He has lived and worked in France since 1992. A graduate of the Fine Arts of Paris in 2003 (studios of Veličković and Boltanski), he has steadfastly pursued the practice of figurative painting, rooted in the dual exercise of tradition and experimentation. In his work, the discourse is committed and the form rather classical. He typically depicts interior spaces invaded by natural elements and sprinkled with objects and characters whose dimensions and roles are symbolic or allegorical. Since 2010 (and the beginning of the Usurper's Realm series), he has been sharing his reflections on the space of power, Western conservatism, and the state of pictorial practice.
Very familiar w the ways of reproducing the most sparking effects of real life with oils on canvas, Mirazović freed himself from the urge to recreate reality and took on a role of an alchemist that constructs a new post-human one. Referencing the aspects of life he experienced to be influential, if not crucial for someone’s completion, he started depicting life synthesized from objects and materials that showcase class, wealth, and (hopefully) taste. Marble, porcelain, chesterfield leather upholstery, or Eames chairs turned into uncomfortable shells that confine the humanity as an inherent quality of being a social being and part of Earth ecosystem. With marble veins becoming blood vessels, Delft-blue porcelain representing tattoos, or shiny leather being a resistant but dead-looking skin, the slight scratches, dents, and carvings are barely visible metaphors of the “real” person exiting underneath, eager but incapable to break out.
