Art In Isolation / @Rikardo Druškić

///Artist/ Rikardo Druškić ///Live stream start/ 20:00 ART IN ISOLATION — During isolation, the gallery Brodac live streams the artist's work from their studio. We want to use the time of self-isolation to ask existential questions: Why are we here today and is there a unity of the world with the problem? What is the response of society to the global common crisis? How does this affect the common human in isolation? What is solidarity in times of crisis, what happens to solidarity after a state of emergency? What does life on the planet look like that can be destroyed with a single click? Do we need a new social contract and what does it look like? Will this crisis prompt us to demand more freedom and a more humane life circumstance or towards greater totalitarianism? ARTIST STATEMENT: My art is my guide in my search for the meaning of life and the truth that drives me along this path. I look at life through art and art through life. I create intuitively, often without any preconceived plan. Love, fear, empathy are the basic drivers of my creative process. I express myself quickly, daily, and my work is always the result of introspection, which takes place on both conscious and subconscious levels. We recognize the world first with emotions, feelings, and only then with thoughts. So it is with my art. The spectator first feels it, then has time to think about it. I fight with my art against many of the wrong values in our society resulting from materialism, consumerism, capitalism. My touch with the spiritual dimension began with the Awakening of Consciousness cycle, in which I address the issues of the individual within the collective consciousness. I transfer my knowledge to the canvases through the two cycles Awakening of Consciousness and Endless Poetry of Movement. Through my work I emphasize the value of individual progress, which I consider the most important step for making society better. I call my work my spiritual auto portraits.