Nikola Pešić

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Forty Holy Martyrs by Nikola Pešić

Nikola Pešić was born in Belgrade in 1973. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade with the degree of painting, although he completed his master's degree in sculpture in class of Professor Mrđan Bajić in 1998.

In 1999 he got the scholarship from German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) when he went to Stuttgart where he finished his post-graduate studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts (germ:Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste) in the class of Professor Micha Ullman.

Pešić's works (sculptures, objects) have been represented at many important exhibitions in Serbia (Oktobarski salon^[1]) and at different art fairs in Europe (Viennafair^[2] in Vienna and Art Fair^[3] in Cologne) by Zvono Gallery^[4].

Nikola Pešić is a member of ULUS^[5] (Visual Artists Association of Serbia).

1 Pešić's art
2 Exhibitions
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Pešić's art

Politika's award, a replica of the bigger Pesic’s sculpture “Erythrocyte”

Nikola Pešić's art consists of highly esthetic objects which hide and generate at the same time different meanings by means of their simple pleasing forms and lines. The interpretation of Pešić's art is based on symbolic models of Christianity, gnosticism and non-Christian religions. According to Nikola, art must be attractive "at first sight". His sculptures are made of transparent and dim polyesters, epoxy and acrylic resins, magnifying glasses, mirrors, brass and other polished and reflecting materials. Even though Pesic tries to achieve perfection, he rarely uses machines when manufacturing his sculptures, and he usually does everything manually. As he himself says: "My sculptures should reflect my wish to make something perfect, and at the same time the impossibility to do it. I think that the manually shaped forms have special enchant and power^[6].

One of the characteristics of Pesić's art is absolute absence of politics in his works. Pesić, if looks some political idol at all, he looks for it in bogumils, cathars and other gnostics, because like them, he does not have any need to belong to any state, political option or church^[6].

On Sunday, March 2, on the final evening of the famous Belgrade film festival FEST, the best film in the competing section “Europe Out Of Europe” will be awarded the statue “Erythrocyte” , given by the respectable Serbian publishing house “Politika”. “Erythrocyte” award is a replica of the bigger Pesic’s sculpture, presented in 2005 at the prominent international exhibition “October Salon” in Belgrade^[7]^[8].

The work represents the red blood cell which transports fresh oxygen, and thus gives strength and life to human body. The golden surface of the Pesic’s “Erythrocyte” suggests that it is not just a plain model of human blood cell but a metaphor of spiritual renewal and catharsis. According to that, statue could also be seen as a symbolic representation of a creative person whose engagements refresh the “blood picture” of cultural and artistic “organism”^[7].