The Land that never was (or Is) will be Milojevic’s first solo exhibition at FireWorks Gallery comprising of nine limited-edition prints. Contemporary cultural identity and the complexities of a cross-cultural position are explored through imagery evolving from two worlds – one evocative of a European landscape and the other reminiscent of a Tasmanian one.
Milojevic utilises a combination of digital (computer) technologies and analogue (traditional etching and woodcut) print techniques to create highly patterned chimeras of fictitious flora and fauna. Exemplary examples which are included in this exhibition upstairs at FireWorks gallery are: Night and Day (The Tree) 2016, a series of 32 panels inspired by diverse sources such as 18th and 19th-century engravers/naturalist artists, Japanese woodblock prints, Hieronymus Bosch, psychedelic music/art, Jorge Luis Borges and Edvard Munch’s Frieze of Life; Tide after Tide (Ed.5) 2021, a celebration of the sea and what it offers up to us; and, Ten Days (Ed.3) 2023, which was commissioned for Tasmania’s recent ‘Ten Days on the Island’ festival.
Image: Milan Milojevic – Night and Day (The Tree) (32 panels)2016archival inkjet print on Canson photographic archival paper 210gsm with etching plateoverlay 176 x 240cm
