30x21 cm, W.A. inkography/paper, 2020 Signed in lower right corner. The auctioned work will be framed.
Ivo Nikić (B. 1974). In 2003 he received his diploma in painting from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Prof. Jaroslaw Modzelewski. His work includes painting, photography, installations, objects, video and actions in urban space. Since 2001, together with Piotr Kiopik and Karol Radziszewski, he has co-founded the Szuszu group. He has participated in numerous group and individual exhibitions in Poland (CCA Ujazdowski Castle, BWA Zielona Gora, Arsenal Gallery in Poznan, Fokus Lodz Biennale) and abroad( among others: Humboldt Berlin, Umspannwerk; Bat-Yam International Biennale of Landscape Urbanism in Israel; in Graz, Tokyo FashionWeek). In 2006, he was an Artist- In-Residence fellow in Bern, Switzerland. He lives and works in Warsaw.
"Iva's paintings have remained a generator of figurative associations, provoked without presenting anything that can be unambiguously named. Indefinable life forms? Internal and external anatomies? Fantastic minerals? Still lifes? Faces? Entering Iva's paintings, we are, despite appearances, far from the areas of abstraction. On the contrary, each painting has a subject that seems to be barely a step away from reality. The painter does not take this step; if one desires unambiguous readings one must make it oneself. However, he does not do it better; Ivo Nikic's painterly universe is most interesting as a parallel reality in which the real echoes and acquires a new visual sound, possible only here. Forms wander from painting to painting, cast by the painter in new visual inventions, built from erotic allusions, cosmic suggestions, phantoms of landscapes, phenomena of alternative flora and fauna."
(Stach Szabłowski, text to the exhibition Cyclodrons, Nanazenit Gallery, Warsaw)
