Juxtapoz Magazine – Stipan Tadić’s Visions of the City

We typically fantasize about spots we have never been. There are specified metropolitan areas that just outgrown their boundaries and turn into an essence, like Paris does, like London does, and of system, NYC does. NYC has a tricky realism but also a fantasy factor, where by its been mythologized in film, audio and artwork heritage. For Stipan Tadić, a Croatian born painter and now NYC-primarily based, the city is both romantic and home, a put that he can put a perception of realism to it and also maintain that romance of the area as a desired destination all on one particular portray. 

His newest demonstrate, Visions of the Town, on look at at ATM Gallery, feels like his most experienced, cohesive output. There is overhead landscapes, town streets, bar scenes, almost as if a soundtrack of paint is remaining visualized in entrance of you. There are night time and dusk scenes, some come to feel smokey and many others have a online video recreation element to them. In some will work, Tadić literally provides comedian e-book aesthetics in excess of brooding backdrops, an nearly animated, cartoon glance. The gallery notes a graphic novel high-quality, and that is place-on. Sometimes our visions of a location have a duality, a story nonetheless to be penned. In the beauty of Tadić’s paintings, he is dwelling inside a fantasical environment, and demonstrates that residence and a desire can co-exist. —Evan Pricco