About Djordje Aralica

Event: Sculpture Wagon

Dates: 6 May 2022 - 25 May 2022

Araloica's first solo show in Bosnia and Herzegovina presents ten recent sculptures.

Event: #djordje_aralica 2

Dates: 30 Nov 2021 - 10 Dec 2021

The exhibition highlights the four new pieces in the main gallery room.

Event: Sound and Image Behind the Screen

Dates: 8 Apr 2021 - 6 May 2021

The exhibition presents Aralica's interpretation of kinetic sculpture as established by the early-twentieth century Avant-Garde movements through the visual integration of the interior space of his sculptural objects.

Event: From the Inside and the Outside

Dates: 3 Sep 2019 - 16 Sep 2019

The exhibition featured a new sculptural cycle, accompanied by the painted, graphic and video material dealing with the presentation of both the exterior and interior sculptural space.

Event: Metal Mode

Dates: 18 May 2019 - 24 May 2019

Djordje Aralica presents a selection of twenty metal sculptures.

Event: 3D

Dates: 25 Oct 2018 - 11 Oct 2018

sculpture solo-show, Modern Gallery of Lazarevac

Event: Chain Loop

Dates: 22 Mar 2018 - 3 Apr 2018

The exhibition presents work from the last three years when the author created several cycles made of iron chains.

Event: Chain Effect

Dates: 27 Nov 2017 - 9 Dec 2017

Author's choice of eight chained sculptures.

Event: Sculpture-O-rama

Dates: 25 Sep 2017 - 7 Oct 2017

Skulptur-O-rama (Sculpture-O-rama)

An awe-inspiring and true visual and mental spectacle, "Skulptur-O-rama" ("Sculpture-O-rama") is the latest exhibition of sculptures made by renowned artist Djordje Aralica. His contemporary associative sculptures made of intricately welded chains of stainless steel defy the sense of gravity and gravitas. As our emphatic responses and perception of lightness of these factually quite heavy metal sculptures collide with the contemplation of oversized representation of everyday objects such as hats or hourglasses, Aralica submerges us into his stunningly cheerful and engaging creative world; world ambiguously devoid of everydayness.
Jelena Bogdanovic, Art Historian

Event: No Comment

Dates: 22 Jun 2017 - 12 Jul 2017

New solo-show

Event: DNA

Dates: 11 May 2017 - 28 May 2017

Presentation of an art approach.

Event: #djordje_aralica

Dates: 18 Oct 2016 - 1 Nov 2016

The new solo-show by Djordje Aralica offers an overview of his sculptural activity in Serbia for the last five years. Out of more than fifty gallery-format sculptures, Aralica has chosen to present some thirty pieces, which again introduces the author of high artistic potential, and his undeniably distinctive sculptural brand. The art identity here presented by the name borrowed from the cyberspace, offers an opportunity to enjoy the tangible rather than virtual reality of his art.

Event: WaterAirTime [Sr. VodaVazduhVreme]

Dates: 24 Aug 2016 - 4 Sep 2016

New chains by Djordje Aralica! On this occasion, world constitutive elements – water, air, and time – presented in the title as a single ideogram, are appropriately packed in elementary forms of a bottle, glass, ball, and an hourglass. At this occasion, instead of predictable materials, the artist introduces a curtain of chains, devoid of any utilitarian purpose.
Once again, we submerge into Aralica’s, at first sight l’art pour l’art, manipulation of his appealing medium overwhelmed by visual impressions: verism, detail, texture, material, as well as the unexpected transformation of ideal form.
Is this Aralica’s laconic wit that celebrates the easiness of life, escapism, or lightheartedness, or could it be a call for discerning a curtain which separates us from that which imparts meaning to our existence, and which separates us from that which imparts meaning to our existence, and which beats, breaths, boils, and leaks independently from us?

Event: Five Years Straight

Dates: 4 May 2016 - 17 May 2016

A retrospective of my artwork in Serbia 2010-2015.

Event: Metal Brut

Dates: 8 Sep 2015 - 18 Sep 2015

Usually, the place where I live at any given moment, with its daily routines, decides on the choice of my subject matter. As a rule, I am interested in the objects of everyday life, which appear to be surprisingly uniform wherever you go. My books, hats, and bags are generally recognizable, and can be easily linked to common human affairs. Yet, I never recycle real objects in a manner of an assemblage, but rather present my own associative, monumentalized interpretation of their form. My objects are reduced to a gallery format, but I see them as large-scale urban sculptures, which change the perception of reality.

Event: Mind Your Hat

Dates: 17 Jun 2015 - 30 Jun 2015

Costume has been a recognizable sign of social status for centuries. Apart from the social rank, certain parts of costume, such as caps or hats, convey various aspects of personal identity. Aralica's hats and caps made of chains, symbols of restraint, challenge the possibility of identity transition. The transparency of the objects built in such a way makes the basic purpose of a hat, which is to cover and conceal, pointless. Chain as a material becomes a riddle. It is both playful and serious. It connotes, as a hat itself, both factual and mystified. Its appealing ambiguity provokes the spectator to contemplate the exhibited object and its intended message. Albeit the notoriously challenging medium, Djordje Aralica’s oversized hats and caps create the atmosphere of childish delight. Therefore, everyone who seeks to communicate their personal attitude by choosing a hat or a cap will appreciate the rich offer made by Aralica’s workshop under the slogan MIND YOUR HAT!

Event: HANDMADE

Dates: 16 Mar 2015 - 27 Mar 2015

Designated from the contemporaneous art critique as the 'art of the third practice' Araica's sculptures capture by their mixture of minimalist sculptural form and their associative contents. In accordance with such an approach, his artwork possesses yet another quality: geometricized in form, monochrome and simplified in materialization, Djordje Aralica's sculptures invariably display extreme sophistication of craftsmanship.

Event: The Weight of Chains

Dates: 10 Jun 2014 - 28 Jun 2014

Djordje Aralica once again presents his small sculptural narratives, this time embodied in rich texture of chains defying their own weight. Instead of gravitation which rules over his medium, and in accordance with his rhetoric of monumentalizing ephemeral visual experience, he offers us to perceive the lightness of objects chained only by the artist's eye.

Event: December Selection

Dates: 3 Dec 2013 - 17 Dec 2013

Thematic selection of the artworks created 2010-2013.

Event: Wheels and Suitcases

Dates: 7 Nov 2013 - 28 Nov 2013

Wheels, Suitcases … and a Few Books
This latest Djordje Aralica’s solo-exhibition, Wheels and Suitcases, highlights some of his best-received works. Aralica is a sculptor whose work elevates everyday objects through their unexpected and lighthearted monumentalization. A native of the Balkans working and exhibiting in Europe, the Middle East, and United States, Aralica’s personal mobility is intimately intertwined with his carry-on sculptures. Back to Serbia after more than ten years, Aralica brings back ‘by handle’ the world cites together with his perception of their urbanity. His carry-ons, being travel records of the cityscapes translated into sculptural blocks mounted on wheels, are emblems of today’s global mobility. Aralica’s travelogue is a subtle and witty reminder of complexities and contradictions of displacement and mobility in the age of globalization.

Event: Ad Libris

Dates: 21 Jun 2013 - 8 Jul 2013

Djordje Aralica, Ad libris

The age of electronic media has brought the book in its traditional form to the verge of extinction. Printed book, codex, rapidly vanishes from the public sphere, losing the battle with its digital versions. By underscoring the materiality of the bound and printed page, Djordje Aralica’s sculptural cycle entitled Ad libris offers a pause and provides an opportunity to gain an insight into the realities of today. Against the immateriality and elusiveness of the digital realm, Aralica’s solid sculptural forms executed in metal with visible welds convey physical presence and longevity of his sculptures–books. His sculptures offer an invitation to interact – to move them, roll them, leave fingerprints on them. They, at the same time, deny our interference – their pages do not turn. Being without text that would transfer the reader to another time and space, Aralica's books become silent witnesses of a passing era.

Event: Urbanscapes - BLOCK

Dates: 17 Feb 2012 - 1 Mar 2012

My cycle entitled 'Cityscapes-BLOCK' first presented on a solo show at the Block Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia. The location of the Gallery within modern city blocks of New Belgrade inspired its architectural theme.

Event: City Luggage

Dates: 18 Aug 2010 - 31 Aug 2010

‘Traveling’ sculptures by Djordje Aralica, collages of archetypal images—allegories of traveling, transport a viewer into a realm of imaginary destinations. It seems that they themselves levitate in the intermediary space between being-here and being-there. The outlines of famous edifices from world’s metropolises emerge before our eyes joined, surprisingly, with the contours of everyday objects. By synchronically zooming in and out, enlarging or shrinking the objects of seemingly incomparable dimensions, Aralica is rethinking the relationship between scale and distance. The ‘traveling’ sculptures thus produce a dual experience: the monumental can be touched, whereas the everyday can elude to the sphere of the unapproachable. This year’s exhibition of sculptures by Djordje Aralica at the ULUS Gallery poses unavoidable questions about permanence and belonging. City Luggage reaches us as a parable of the present-day ‘on-the-move’ identity.