POPRŽAN Borivoj
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POPRŽAN Borivoj
Painter, Graphic artist
Born in 1954, in Novi Sad.
Studied at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. Became member of UPIDIV in 1980 and of Likovni krug/Art Circle in 1992; chaired the latter from 1992 to 2003.
Frequently exhibited at group shows in the country and abroad.
One-man exhibitions: Novi Sad (6), Sombor, Belgrade, Subotica, Toronto, Vienna, Nontron, Eime, Bordeaux, St. Emilion and Bern.
Address (studio): Petrovaradinska tvrđava, atelje 11, 21000 Novi Sad
Phone: + 381 21 643 42 46; +381 63 54 96 88
e-mail: poprzan@eunet.yu
www.poprzan.co.yu
Born in 1954, in Novi Sad.
Studied at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. Became member of UPIDIV in 1980 and of Likovni krug/Art Circle in 1992; chaired the latter from 1992 to 2003.
Frequently exhibited at group shows in the country and abroad.
One-man exhibitions: Novi Sad (6), Sombor, Belgrade, Subotica, Toronto, Vienna, Nontron, Eime, Bordeaux, St. Emilion and Bern.
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Hidden in the shade of the fixed centre of the circle and time, Borivoj Popržan is watching the prisoners keeper and the chamber man, guiding him just a little above, far upstream of his primeval light, the shallow water of the river bank, toward the underground Danube. There where, for sure, the oldest, unknown lighting stonefish dwells. Covered with thousands of mosses and years. By blurred light from the water, from the bottom, he could see through the day, and by his own flash of light, from the inside, the night. The fish nourishes his light from the water, and the stone the oblivion and self-containment of his emotions.
When the emotions reached the peak on their way, they turned into fish, he knows it for sure. Some of the fish were primeval witnesses of the underground Danube. Others, he could see in the river streams around Equator. They fed the forked roots of trees of low-grown primeval forests, where silvery-glass pikes often stayed to swing. Today, he can see these pikes hidden in the paintings in the apses of forgotten Byzantine monasteries. Yes, there are no borders. Time, the negative of the circle centre and the tired bird keeper used to tell it to Borivoje in the best way. Life is the nursery of the spirit. While flying, he could see below, in the distant water surface, the reflection of never repeated, moving picture of the sky. Then the Danube had stopped for the first time. The Fortress-ship and the man-fence sailed out, just a little above, along the Danube, this time upstream. |
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Address (studio): Petrovaradinska tvrđava, atelje 11, 21000 Novi Sad
Phone: + 381 21 643 42 46; +381 63 54 96 88
e-mail: poprzan@eunet.yu
www.poprzan.co.yu
