Vojkan Morar was born in Pancevo where he lives even now. He has been painting since 1986.He has participated in collective exhibitions both at home and abroad. He is a member of numerous humanitarian organizations and art colonies.
Solo exhibitions
1990-Gallery "Braca Stamenkovic" -Belgrade
1991-Gallery"Jovan Popovic" -Opovo
1991-Gallery"Kuca Djure Jaksica" -Belgrade
1992-Diplomatic Club -Belgrade
1993-The city library -Pancevo
1993-Gallery"Wawavox" -Berlin
1993-Club"TBC" -Berlin
1994-Home Museum -Jagodina
1995-The Gallery of Serbian-Greek friendship-Belgrade
1995-The center of Culture -Sefkerin
1996-Gallery 34 -Valjevo
1999-private house during bombing -Pancevo
2005-Gallery 24 Berlin
2005-Kanzlei und Kulturraum Streifler & Kollegen Berlin
2009-Gallery Dvoriste Pancevo
2009-14th Biennial of naive and marginal arts Jagodina-Grand Prix for Exhibited Works (Painting)
2009-Night of Museums -Jagodina
2010- Europe days of Opera Madlenianum -Zemun
2010-Chelsea Gallery -London
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2015-EM Galerie – Tokyo
2015-Westkunst Galerie- Frankfurt
2015-Mestska knihovna- Louny
2015-Dum národnostních menšin – Praha
2016-EM Galerie – Tokyo
2017-EM Galerie – Tokyo
2017- Gallery Truth Art- Tokyo
2017-2018-Halle St.Pierre-Paris
2018-EM Galerie – Tokyo
2019-Gallery Seyyou,- Tokyo
Although like specific angelarium, nearly always devoted to one motif, quite specific world of his paintings is an inexhaustible source of inspiration and wealth of inventive variations of individual, refined and intensive artistic experiences. In lower zones of the paintings , the artist portrays fantastic architecture of unreal cities or monasteries surrounded with utterly stylized human images with outstretched arms pointing to heavens that personify the souls in the their unfaltering pursuit of higher spheres. The figures portrayed with roots that keep them tied to the ground and the crowns stretched towards heavens personify the dualism of humane nature, conditioned by the materialistic yet aspiring to freedom of spirit. Multitude of miniature representations of these figures with outstretched arms are moved by violent gravitation towards the swarms of angels, which in the upper zone of the painting dominate the scene as central promoters of the composition. We experience the magic world of Vojkan Morar’s paintings as a miraculous scene, open to mystic and spiritual dimension that creates new pictorial reality of authentic artistic refinement.
Ivana Jovanovic Art Historian
Vojkan Morar was born 1966 in Pancevo. He began painting in 1986. The artist lives in Pancevo, Serbia. He portrays parallel world of angels and dead souls in a meticulous technique. With his imagination of a visionary, he multiplies his figures psychedelically, immersing them into color. The tautology of figures that have lost their souls or angles that settle the towers of miraculous cities pursue this young artist. With his extraordinary gift for minute work, he places hundreds of angels into the abstract atmosphere, sometimes on small surfaces. The artist treats the landscape metaphysically, like a microcosm in which his vision is revealed. Yellow predominates in all his paintings as the background of hid dynamic compositions. Applying paint thickly, most often in the definition of figures or fantastic architecture, the artist attempts to take off into the heights like Icarus, and escape from the surface of the canvas. Some time ago, his permanent necessity for an additional dimension made him create sculptures which brought thematic unity with his paintings. The city of angels, as well as city of thousands of abandoned human figures, teems with the energy achieved by a powerful and authentic composition and colouring. The counterpoint between minutely presented figures and abstract atmosphere, occasionally dominated by imaginary towers of ancient or future cities, is connected and deepening within the painting. A permanent multiplication of white figures reveals a recognizable motif of the artist. The reduction of colour highlights the texture of form and intensifies the atmosphere of the heavenly world. A permanent exploration of the same motif points to the artist’s obsession with his own visions and persistence that is exclusively characteristic of strong individualists whose messages can reach us only in fragments. He has exhibited his work at solo and joint shows in the country and abroad.
Nina Krstic
Vojkan Morar,an autodidact,entered the art world during late 80s.He was born in 1966 in Pancevo,where he still lives and creates. In art ,Vojkan Morar has found the possibility to express himself and his relations with the world.Following his own internal impulse and his need to paint,he has created and he continues to create pictures whose main peculiarityis the complexity(ambiguosness) of content and the spontaneity and directness of his personal painting procedure. He is inspired by the time he lives in,by the events from his personl life,literature and the music works of art.His artistic solutions are the visual symbols of his efforts to understand life and to penetrate its secrets.Instead of being concerned with the description of events of spectacles, he concetrates on psychological symbolic events of the hellish atmosphere of the time he lives in.Man is present on all his pictures (man endangered,helpless,alienated,unable to find the right way,a man who lost control of his reason,looking for solvation,melancholy man,man with his fears,uneasy,anxious and hoping,man reaching peace,reaching love,man trying to rise spiritually).These pictures of expessive strainght, complex and surrealist,are permeated with the atmosphere of existential as well as intellectual agitation, or show that the obsessive visionary reality can easily become man's reality one day. His creation of the picture is in itself interesting. The picture is generated fast,it is the psychic unburdening of the painter and the immidiate direct realization of the person on canvas. Vojkan Morar has realized his art visions using his distinct art procedure, having some points of contact with surrealistic and abstract art heritage. Paint is a powerful means of expression, through which he achieves certian atmospheres. One sees relief and surface painting, play between light and dark, tone gradation of paint in order to achieve depth perspective, tones of ocher,yellow, purple,blue,green,grey,cinober,carmine,black. The colours of diluted pigment are poured out, combinated with parts of hard pigment shaped like threads of leaks. Sometimes paint drips from the brush, sometimes it leaks, it is unrestrained at times. Some surfaces are sprayed, others have the effects similar to the decalcomanic technique. Thus he gets the fluid foggy space atmosphere from which the elongated Giacomettian ghostly bodies or the processions of human figures reduced to the miniature contoures surface or into which dive. Apart from canvas and paint,Vojkan Morar uses clay for transformation of his ideas. His clay figures are small, elongeted forms, whose expressiveness matches the painted ones. With such artistic language Vojkan Morar, a gifted creator, at the peak of his creative straight, expresses the truth of life Ljiljana Kojic art historian
Does a painting reveal or hide true face of an artist-is it the product of his mental state or emotional impulses, the reflection of his feelings, or simple a mere fantasy and figment of his mind. Observing the paintings of Morar Vojkan , these are the extract questions we have to ask ourselves . Maybe it is all about Breton's ...pure, mental automatism...the dictatorships of thought in absence of any rational control... However while painting, Vojkan does not totally exclude all concise, mental directives. On the contrary, he presents his relationships with the world-relationships veiled with fantasy and mystique. Inspiration for his creative work he obtains from literature, music, mythology, and iconography, while paraphrasing poems, novels, and historical events. In that way we recognize St.Sebastian,Neptune,Christ,Laocon,Gothic cathedrals... But these do not make up the essence of a painting; these are just some of associating elements in an infinite space. It is actually this space-space as universe -that dominates On the canvas. And it is also this space that introduces a touch of magic into the composition, creating mysterious and somewhat morbid atmosphere. Further analysis of Morar's artistry reveals the following: the center of his interest is man, i.e. people who fit perfectly into that apocalyptic world. These people are stylistically in complete harmony with the space. There are slender, elongated figures with their arms stretched and rose upward, as if wishing to reach something or fly into that unreal world. Directed towards the heavens, incorporeal, faceless and sexless, they appear out of the ground, treetops, they grow out of the fish wombs, pr are simply hidden within that chaotic expanse. The particular trait of Morar's artistic iconography is processions of human figures. These people actually present his micro world. Tiny, almost invisible to the naked eye, they have been created with filigree-like strokes, and can be seen more clearly only under the magnifying glass. Sometimes these miniature figures compose one larger macro figure (hundreds of small angels make up a big one). These compositions, at first sight simple, but in actual fact extremely complex, seem very harmonious, although filled with multitude of details. These harmony originals from the very coloring. Reduces to only few colors (one or two) and finally to the monochrome technique, the coloring also gives the spiritual touch to the painting. The play of the light and dark, graduation and color toning, create specific atmosphere perspective. The structure on Morar's canvas varies from azure to paste. Namely, at the azure base (completely dissolved pigment), we find forcefully rough strokes that develop into tangible relief. From all this we could draw the conclusion that the key to Morar's creativity lies in the spontaneous expression of his feelings. In the same manner as on the canvas, Morar creates his human figures in clay. Recognizable slimness, motion and theme are transferred from canvas into free space. Just like the ones in the paintings, these elongated forms that also aspire towards the sky, seem unreal and expressive. And it is in this expression, symbolism and alienation from the real and earthly, i.e. in the in his magical world and fairy-tale like dream, that he creative power of Vojkan Morar lies.
Jarmila Cendic Connoisseur of fine arts
