Danilo Stojanović

Danilo Stojanović’s visual poetics is rich in dichotomies, rooted in artistic currents with opposing values, which he translates into images with an original, authentic and harmonious identity.

The painter, Istrian by birth but Venetian by adoption, suffuses his (generally small or medium-sized) canvases with a fluid, mercurial atmosphere, often rendered in a cold palette, within which the depicted objects seem engulfed and floating. While acknowledging his debt to Italian Metaphysical painting, with its mysterious and enigmatic settings, Stojanović creates scenarios entirely stripped of geometric perspective: perspectival rigour becomes superfluous in a dimension where spatial composition rests entirely on the placement of, and relationships between, the extraordinary entities that inhabit it.