Stipan Tadić Capturing The Nighttime in East Village
April 23, 2021 | in Painting
Mucciaccia Gallery in New York is currently running additional two weeks of Intersections, two solo projects introducing the artists’ perceptions of the world seen through very diverse lenses. The presentation is contrasting Kati Vilim s representational geometric images which originate in abstract, often invisible parts of the world, against Stipan Tadić’s romanticized observations of his actual surrounding.
For this body of work, Tadić focused on portraying night scenes of his adopted home city, namely East Village. Looking for a subject matter that would set some boundaries but also allow for enough possibilities to explore, the nighttime felt like the perfect choice. As a complex symbol in itself, the night setting made sense to me, as I always felt that a big part of my identity belongs to different aspects of the night, Croatian artist told Juxtapoz about his personal relationship wi