honorable mention
Aleksandar Antonijevic canada
title
inFORMants
I have been a performer for almost 25 years. A career as a classically trained dancer has given me an incredible focus on the human body, expression, detail, movement and spatial awareness.
However, having been subjected to observation, criticism, appreciation, judgement, celebration, dislike has left me with an overwhelming sense of isolation and solitude.
This is what I explore and capture in this body of work-the solitary lives of human beings, the feeling of aloneness, the unquantifiable dynamic between bodies, enclosed in space, but very much separated by existence.
Aleksandar Antonijevic (b. 1969) is an award winning Canadian fine art photographer.
Mr Antonijevic was born in Pozarevac, former Yugoslavia. After a 25 year long and very successful career as a Principal Dancer in a major ballet company, he turned to photography as a means of expressing himself.
He extended his love of dancing from the stage to the camera, implementing the same principles of form and space into his passion behind the lens. Mr Antonijevic deals primarily with the form of the human body and portraiture.
The artist was influenced by the form of ancient Greek monumental sculptures, the work of August Rodin and his ability to model the complexity and the elegance of the human figure; the highly stylized and provocative contemporary photography of Robert Mapplethorpe as well as the old masters of Dutch painting, with their control of light and understated observation of action.
Describing Aleksandar Antonijevic's body of work, Peter Clothier, art critic for Art News, wrote: "His images reveal to us, at first sight, the breathtaking beauty of the human form in its perfection; and the dramatic beauty of its ability to reach the absolute limits of its potential. He invites us into the most intimate places of the human anatomy and makes them a matter of pure line and contour. As viewers, we are enchanted by the chiaroscuro, the play of light and dark, the mysterious, quasi-minimalist abstract forms created by those draped figures, tensed against the drapery that enfolds them."
Mr Antonijevic’s art works are in private and public collections in Canada, USA and Europe. He has produced 8 solo exhibits and twice participated in Contact Scotia Bank Photography Festival in Toronto, Canada.
The artist lives and works in Toronto.
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entry description
An "informant" is a person who gives information according to Websters dictionary... My subjects inform the viewer about their story, by using their only instrument, human body and face. The slightest angle change or fascial difference will result in a drastically different outcome.I have been a performer for almost 25 years. A career as a classically trained dancer has given me an incredible focus on the human body, expression, detail, movement and spatial awareness.
However, having been subjected to observation, criticism, appreciation, judgement, celebration, dislike has left me with an overwhelming sense of isolation and solitude.
This is what I explore and capture in this body of work-the solitary lives of human beings, the feeling of aloneness, the unquantifiable dynamic between bodies, enclosed in space, but very much separated by existence.
about the photographer
BiographyAleksandar Antonijevic (b. 1969) is an award winning Canadian fine art photographer.
Mr Antonijevic was born in Pozarevac, former Yugoslavia. After a 25 year long and very successful career as a Principal Dancer in a major ballet company, he turned to photography as a means of expressing himself.
He extended his love of dancing from the stage to the camera, implementing the same principles of form and space into his passion behind the lens. Mr Antonijevic deals primarily with the form of the human body and portraiture.
The artist was influenced by the form of ancient Greek monumental sculptures, the work of August Rodin and his ability to model the complexity and the elegance of the human figure; the highly stylized and provocative contemporary photography of Robert Mapplethorpe as well as the old masters of Dutch painting, with their control of light and understated observation of action.
Describing Aleksandar Antonijevic's body of work, Peter Clothier, art critic for Art News, wrote: "His images reveal to us, at first sight, the breathtaking beauty of the human form in its perfection; and the dramatic beauty of its ability to reach the absolute limits of its potential. He invites us into the most intimate places of the human anatomy and makes them a matter of pure line and contour. As viewers, we are enchanted by the chiaroscuro, the play of light and dark, the mysterious, quasi-minimalist abstract forms created by those draped figures, tensed against the drapery that enfolds them."
Mr Antonijevic’s art works are in private and public collections in Canada, USA and Europe. He has produced 8 solo exhibits and twice participated in Contact Scotia Bank Photography Festival in Toronto, Canada.
The artist lives and works in Toronto.
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