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Travel
Provisions
for Ivan Radman
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an artist staging his first exhibition, young Ivan Radman
is presenting his talent with monochrome drawings on paper,
a technique that aspires to maximum simplicity and originality.
The choice of motifs is also extremely meager and demure;
they are landscapes from his native region, scenes in
which cliffs descend into the sea, where the furrows of
the coastline overlap with the rhythm of waves, where
the sea's horizon is locked in an embrace with the endless
sky. The dates accompanying the signatures confirm that
all of these works emerged in one breath, so to speak,
in direct contact with the object of observation, in an
immediate transcription of visual and emotional impressions
like a journal that chronicles a sojourn in a place near
and dear to the heart.
Monochrome is modest, but reductiveness can be wonderful.
The façade of non-pretentiousness conceals an indisputable
contemplative and meditative affinity, a need to extract
the essence from what is seen. Radman's need to condense
and his inclination toward clarity must be compared to
the Franciscan or the Zen Buddhist approach to the phenomenon
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