Gabrijel Savic Ra

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Gabrijel Savic Ra is an artist who believes in humans, no matter what. This site it’s not only for his works, but also for people who are willing to make a change (not for those who are interested just in their careers) but also for those who want to help to the other people. I believe that you should help to all the people and make them feel that their existence is important to this world like anybodies else’s. I know how many things are wrong with system of art institutions and their representatives (of course there’s people who deserve the greatest respect), but we need to change this elitist approach to the art and all other forms where people should speak freely. There are a lot of people who share my beliefs and who are of all races, all religion beliefs, different social backgrounds, all political affiliation, all sexual preferences, people who are different and who believe that difference brings them together. I just hope that there are so many people who are willing to change the exploitive indifference that we are in and that we will all have courage to that. About Gabrijel Savic Ra (studied philosophy) : multimedia artist and curator, fighter for human rights. The biggest thorn in Serbian art community because of his words that he founds them to be an artistic mafia and destroyers of future of many young people. Gabrijel Savic Ra is the founder and curator of two galleries V.I.P.Art Gallery (since 2003) and Art@Art Gallery (from 2007) and curator of Circus Gallery (since 2005). He started several festivals and annual exhibitions for new medias (IN-DIFFERENCE, September Salon, Ars Mystic, Focus, Frames…) and gave opportunity to many young artists to have their first exhibition and also collaborated with many famous artist and bring them close to young people. As an artist expresses in performance art, video art, paintings, installation, music, poetry, photography. In his performance actions mostly follows the body art path, but also combines live action with new technology. All of his works are developed through research of life and all of the components that make that life worth of living. In 2005 Gabrijel Savic Ra founded the art group Corpus Artisticum with several artist and make the network for worldwide collaborations and exchange of experience. Gabrijel Savic Ra quotes: “I would rather exhibit or perform in my own apartment than in any Museum Of Contemporary Art if I have to be suitable artist.”, “To be a good artist means that you have to be decent human being first”, “Concept of globalism and antiglobalism is a shit thing, globalism exist because some people have the money and the other antiglobalists just wants to be in reach people place – the wise and radical thing would be for all to stop being lazy and change things from the honest purposes.",“I believe in young people because their young and they are still humans. The rest of us we are struggling to explain something simple in complicated words. We really don’t know what to say, just want to present ourselves as smarts.”, “There’s several artist that I really admire at this moment Ron Athey, Kira O'Reilly, Juniper Perlis and Oliver Frost and it’s not only that I like their work more and more, but this four make change on worldwide scene and that would be showed in art history and luckily for us who knows them one way or another.”, “I meet Juniper Perlis few years back and I had feeling that I saw the angel (actually she is the only one because of I still believe in Angels).”, “If some person say to gay man or woman that he/she will be in hell, oh, I will be the first in line after Satan to rape that person.”, “Give freedom to everyone who need’s it, or at one moment you will be declined of your one freedom by your own mind.” To see more of Gabrijel Savic Ra art works visit also www.artmajeur.com/gabrijel Others about the of work Gabrijel Savic Ra "GABRIEL SAVIC RA – “The blood sun” of Belgrade performance art scene" by Tatjana T. Bajovic Everything around this kind and congenial person is a mystery! Starting with his birth date (is it 31. December 1977. or 01. January 1978.), which is uncertain! But hi is not! Everyone thought that after Marina Abramovic, Belgrade will never have performance artist of that caliber, but Mr. Savic Ra proved the opposite. In only 3 years of work he developed a variety of concepts that echoed not only in Serbia and region, but (and maybe even much more!) around the world, as well. Gabriel Savic Ra uses the esthetics of minimalism, conceptualism and signals from other visual arts and philosophy, incorporated in performance art, nowadays essentially streaming to body art performance. Unlike other current body artists, such as Ron Athey or Franko B, he excludes any kind of shocking aggression from of his work. Almost purely esthetical and highly methodical, the concepts of this artist may be considered much more as a storytelling or painting, using body as a pencil, as a brush… Closed, almost locked up into concepts, he communicates with audience not thru a shock, but thru great distances, by sings his body emits. He does not have the intention to infiltrate the observer into his world, primarily because it is the same world they are sharing, but to envisage some of the facts in a way that is drastic and naked. To demonstrate it to the audience as they are, from artist’s specific point of view. Lack of his personal involvement in his working points, makes it generic and overall. Even blood of Mr. Savic Ra is not just his blood, but blood of every human being that coexists in time. It is a blood that colors this moment of humanity! Performances at IMAF by Juniper Perlis The calmness that comes over Gabrijel Savic Ra while he is performing, gives his pieces an aura of trust. He opens himself up to the pain and to the audience. In “Consumed by Rose” Gabrijel literally opens himself up by slowly drawing lines in his feet, hands, arms and chest, with a razor. The blood stands in contrast to the white cloth he sits on and his blood sticks to. It spreads across his skin, coloring him bloody. He then replaces his lost blood with the petals of red roses. Eating them slowly, petal by petal. He looks at the audience deeply, creating intimacy through eye contact. In “Algorithms of Nihil” Gabrijel lies his hand, palm down, on a print in a Gaugain monograph. He then drips wax from a candle onto the back of his hand. He melds himself with the image, punishing himself and the book, and simultatneously creating unity. Esoteric Symbols, Paintings of Gabrijel Savic in Gallery by Andrej Tisma Occult science and magic symbols are the part of the human civilization for centuries and in the present time of empirical science ruling, they are less present in public life and they are more part of hidden mystics life’s and the esotery students. One of contemporary artists who makes this ideas alive and affirmative’s them through his art projects is Belgrade’s multimedia artist, painter, performer, video artist and editor in Belgrade’s Students cultural center, Gabrijel Savic Ra. He presented the cycle of paintings in the Gallery of the Center for visual culture “Golden eye” called “Les Symboles” (The Symbols) where he presented symbols taken from Middle Ages mystical scriptures. This symbols represents certain spiritual entities, good and bad, that concerns humans or their surroundings and they are illustrated on five paintings in black and white scale of color tones. As a basis for painted symbols it was used an informel play of splashing and spilling of black pigment of the canvas surface whit what it created an accidental spots that look like as an unpredictable reality and interaction of life phenomena’s and energies. On this kind of symbolical basis Savic writes big symbols that were he took from Middle Ages occult scriptures. Following his explanation in the catalogue those are the symbols that have influence by associative principle initializing human imagination, because they are already implanted in our sub consciousness as determent archetypes. They are connected with fears, desires, inter human relationships and relations with nature; manifesting themselves through morality, desire for eternity, urge for ancient, love etc. So, the paintings, which Savic has exhibited in “Golden eye”, have strong and historically and civilization founded context and the author has allowed himself artistic freedom that this five already mentioned symbols express in visual and gallery space, where they are getting the meaning and the field of coming to life. With artistic values that are influenced by extremely informel basis, these paintings have ontological and magical dimension and this map’s them on our contemporary art scene as extraordinary and makes them particularly interesting.