From 8 March to 3 April 2022, the National Museum of Modern Art is staging the first showing of the new painting series titled Body – World by the Croatian painter and graphic artist Fadil Vejzović at the Josip Račić Gallery. Art critic and exhibition author, Milan Bešlić has selected eleven works in mixed media technique created in the period between 2014 and 2022, in which the artist explores the theme of the female body in a new and imaginative way. The presentation of Vejzović’s work in the Račić Gallery is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue in Croatian and English with an introductory text by Milan Bešlić.
… Venturing with his paintings inside this endless space epitomized by the human body in female form, Vejzović in his recent works does not shape a nude, does not describe a body in its narrative givenness, does not portray or idealize, but with each new series, and especially this latest titled Body – World, he steps into the mysterious realm of the human being, into the universe of one’s body which is the world, that is, life itself. The body contains human existence, it houses one’s essence, it is a receptacle of the soul, a memory chip. The painter does not examine this corporeal universe using an exact scientific method, but an artist’s intuition, which does not penetrate the unknown expanses between the stars but the dark landscapes of human nature, the subconscious and irrational spaces. The map of the body reveals to the painter other and unknown worlds, new ways of comprehending the human existence, and, above all, new visual spaces for his painting. (Milan Bešlić, excerpt from the text in the exhibition catalogue)
Photo: From the exhibition set-up. Photo: Goran Vranić © National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb, 2022.