...“Slavoj Zizek’s book, “ Living in the End Times”, analyses the end of the world, aka the terminal crisis of global capitalism, at the hands of the four horsemen of the new and upcoming apocalypse. In this case they are his own version of the four heralds of Armageddon: ecological crisis, imbalance in the economic system, biogenetic revolution and exploding social divisions. Svetislav Martinovic’s paintings could easily be described as a visual testament that warns us of this impending crisis. Like all manifestos in the modern tradition, it is made up of strong words, simple and synthetic images, seriality, unlimited reproducibility, and modularity. It consists of works on paper, watercolour images repeated, as in silkscreen prints, letters crowding surfaces with the tenacity of newspaper typescript, squares of light seeping through suburb-defining structures of modernist and modular condominiums. There is an air of impending change, a storm brewing on the horizon, a heavy, turgid cloud threatening to let go of its watery burden to produce a deluge driving away the old dry debris left over from the old life that lies in its wake. They are paper reminders of the pre-digital era when everything was destined to decay were it not for mankind’s noble mission to restore and preserve. But they are also harbingers of the archives of the future, that hide, behind the enduring nature of the omnipotent Cloud, a fragile integrity, that, as Assange shows us, could easily and forever be compromised if falling into the wrong hands”.
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“ I Can’t Breathe is the contemporary cry of Aida whose ‘prayer changes to a curse, tears to a crime and sighs to a fault, whose soul is lost in the dark night and who, in cruel anguish, will die”.
(Konrad Buhagiar)


Nato nel 1956, attualmente vive e lavora a Rimini, Italia. Laureato presso la Facoltà di Architettura di Belgrado nel 1981.
Ha lavorato come architetto per oltre 30 anni in diversi paesi.
Il risultato del suo lavoro professionale sono numerosi premi a concorsi e riconoscimenti per i progetti ed edifici realizzati.
“IL lavoro di Martinovic e fortamente legato ai suoi studi accademici e alla sua professione principale.
I numerosi strati dell’acquarello permettono un’elaborazione dell’imagine che perde la solita e nota fluidita per imprimersi sul foglio e sottolineare la concretezza degli elementi rappresentati, guidando le forme con la mano abile e palesemente educata al disegno tecnico e progettuale.”
”Cerco di usare l’acquerello nel modo in cui gli artisti usano i colori ad olio o acrilici, spessi e con molti strati.” Non voglio che i miei lavori sembrino acquerelli in modo tradizionale, delicato e romantico. Contrariamente alle aspettative consolidate, vedo l’acquerello come un mezzo potente in grado di esprimere argomenti audaci e dichiarazioni potenti”.
Espone le sue opere in Italia e all’estero.