Artwork

Recluse (1964–65, 1969, 1976, 1980, 1986, 1996)

“These layers of painter’s handwriting are an amalgam of the spiritual and the mental with the material traces of human existence in the long surface sedimentation process similar to the unique morphology of a palimpsest: a glimpse of light, distant events, people who are no longer here, loneliness, melancholic transience, sadness of suburban streets, longing for faraway spaces of childhood, city spleen, estrangement, restlessness…”

— Milan Bešlić