Bioskop Balkan

In Sunday Afternoon, Dragan Zdravković establishes multilayeredness as a fundamental structural principle. Interiors and landscapes slide over one another, not as stable spatial units but as temporary projections of memory, imagination, and visual habits. Zdravković constructs a space that both evokes and suspends reality: each scene functions as a fragment of a larger narrative that never fully reveals itself.
These overlapping layers do not create chaos but rather a quietly pulsating map — a topography of everyday experience in which intimate interiors and exterior landscapes merge into a new, hybrid scenography. Sunday Afternoon becomes a visual meditation on how we perceive space: not as a given condition, but as an ongoing negotiation between what we see and what we remember.

Sunday Afternoon
work on paper | mixed media
45x70cm
2025

Private collection | New York

Inside Out – Dragan Zdravković

200x155 cm
oil and acrylic on canvas
2021

This work operates within the tension between interiority and fragmentation. The broken gaze, refracted through multiple sequences, does not merely invite introspection—it destabilizes the very notion of a coherent inside. There is a quiet comfort born from the soft, fur-like surface—a tactile invitation to linger. What stands out is the technique: a meticulous, almost sculptural approach that renders warmth and depth, transforming the canvas into a space of touch and sensation.

Dragan Zdravković
Blue Window | oil and acrylic on canvas | 215x170 cm

Blue Window_work on paper_ colored ink acrylic and pastel 64x47 cm_

In the vastness of cobalt blue, the work opens a space that resists mere visuality and insists on mental projection. The reflection does not confirm reality; it fractures it into cartographies of territories that never existed, suggesting an insistence on the imaginary as a legitimate geography. Interventions of green punctuate this field, destabilizing the monochrome and introducing a rhythm that demands attentive looking—a rhythm that leans toward meditation rather than narration.
Blue, historically coded as the color of communication, peace, and depth, here becomes a site of negotiation between surfaces that refuse to reconcile easily. Through a collage-like procedure, the artist orchestrates these oppositions into a fragile harmony, a constructed balance that reveals its own contingency.