2010 Ribnica Kraljevo
Remember! Souviens-toi! prodigue Esto memor!
(Mon gosier de métale parle toutes les langes.)
Les minutes, mortel folâtre, sont des gangues
Qu’il ne faut pas lâcher sans en extraire l’or!
L’Horloge, Charles Baudelaire
Remember! Souviens-toi, spendthrift! Esto memor!
(My metal throat can speak all languages.)
Minutes, blithesome mortal, are bits of ore
That you must not release without extracting the gold!
ranslated by William Aggeler
The highest human knowledge is knowing the moment, the real hour. A moment is an infinitesimal part of time, but because of that infinity everything can fit into it. The moment is the way eternity is available to us in time, like a window with a perfect view. Time is invisible, like eternity, and only the moment can be absolutely experienced, and represented visually. That is why the moment is the task of the artist. Petar Radlović’s paintings represent that absolute experience, a combination of time and eternity. They are both Proust’s search for lost time and found time. They are also an attempt to overcome the tragedy of time — transience, through temporary, momentary peace, the only one available to us in life. That is why they are both bright and gloomy, and that is why they are bright and warning at the same time.
The capture of time, the capture of the moment, is accomplished by analogy and symmetry — that passionate, Blakean (William Blake) symmetry, the two categories by which we learn, see and remember. It is the only way to limit something infinite, such as the sky, like a window or painting frame, which are somewhat identified here. The shapes of a circle or square precisely because of their perfection, finitude and closedness are instruments and guides of our inner experience, as well as light that is precisely determined, measured, because it must not be too strong or too weak to see well, just as a tone must not be too high or too low to hear.
The images before us, however, offer no thought, no conclusion, not even a concept; they provide what all art provides — a view. And that fixed gaze draws the observer into itself, not in a melancholy way, but immediately, and then leaves him in front of the open window, for a moment.
Dragana Popovic
Remember! Souviens-toi! prodigue Esto memor!
(Mon gosier de métale parle toutes les langes.)
Les minutes, mortel folâtre, sont des gangues
Qu’il ne faut pas lâcher sans en extraire l’or!
L’Horloge, Charles Baudelaire
Remember! Esto memor! Seti se, bludni sine!
(Metalno mi je grlo vično svim jezicima.)
Smrtniče budalasti, u svakom trenu ima
Zlata koje izvući valja pre no što mine!
Sat na tornju, Šarl Bodler
preveo Branimir Živojinović
Najviše ljudsko saznanje je spoznaja trenutka, pravog časa. Trenutak je beskonačno mali deo vremena, ali zbog te beskonačnosti u njega može sve da stane. Trenutak je način na koji nam je večnost dostupna u vremenu, kao prozor sa savršenim pogledom. Vreme je nevidljivo, kao i večnost, i jedino trenutak može biti apsolutno doživljen i predstavljen vizuelno. Zato je trenutak zadatak umetnika.
Slike Petra Radlovića predstavljaju taj apsolutni doživljaj, spoj vremena i večnosti. One su i prustovsko traganje za izgubljenim vremenom i nađeno vreme. One su i pokušaj prevazilaženja tragike vremena — prolaznosti, kroz privremeni, trenutni mir, jedini koji nam je dostupan u životu. Zato su one i vedre i tmurne, i zato one vedre i opominju istovremeno.
Hvatanje vremena, zarobljavanje trenutka izvršeno je pomoću analogije i simetrije — one strasne, blejkovske (Vilijem Blejk) simetrije, dve kategorije pomoću kojih učimo, vidimo i pamtimo. To je jedini način da se nešto beskonačno, kao što je nebo, omeđi, kao prozorskim ili slikarskim ramom, koji su ovde donekle poistovećeni.
Oblici kruga ili kvadrata baš zbog svoje savršenosti, konačnosti i zatvorenosti su instrumenti i vodiči našeg unutrašnjeg doživljaja, kao i svetlost koja je precizno određena, odmerena, jer ne sme biti ni prejaka ni preslaba da bi dobro videli, kao što ton ne sme biti ni previsok ni prenizak da bi ga čuli.
Slike koje su pred nama, ipak, ne nude misao, ni zaključak, čak ni koncept; one pružaju ono što svaka umetnost pruža — pogled. A taj pogled koji je zaustavljen u sebe uvlači i posmatrača, ne na melanholičan način već neposredno, i potom ga ostavlja pred otvorenim prozorom, na jedan trenutak.
Dragana Popović
