Olive Trees by Ivan Radman
This series of charcoal drawings dedicated to olive trees shows that young painter Ivan Radman knows how to extract these specific rays of energy from nature, and at the same time not to betray the nature of discipline or media he uses, nor to burden frame by redundant mimetic or narative details. Respecting the pure whiteness of the paper, and expresive blackness of the carbon to the end, he manages to build dinamic and dramatic system based just on this primal contrast. At one point the black line inscribes boundries and divisions, yet on another white surface extends the space of rhithmic echoes written to the endnesless.
This series of charcoal drawings dedicated to olive trees shows that young painter Ivan Radman knows how to extract these specific rays of energy from nature, and at the same time not to betray the nature of discipline or media he uses, nor to burden frame by redundant mimetic or narative details. Respecting the pure whiteness of the paper, and expresive blackness of the carbon to the end, he manages to build dinamic and dramatic system based just on this primal contrast. At one point the black line inscribes boundries and divisions, yet on another white surface extends the space of rhithmic echoes written to the endnesless.
Many of the charcoal strokes are scratched on a neutral (absolute) background and trunks of suggested shapes roots by author's imagination only. Nor in the cases where the areal plans are yet marely marked by occasional line of landscape or gravity foothold, admittance to naration is not shown at all. Because abscissas and ordinates of the frame are translated to the exclusivly twodimensional plane. This way they were able to preserve authonomy of visual signs - instead to fall under the criterias of values, recognition, likeness...
Concluding we could say that by stern sighting and consistent notation young Ivan Radman proves his drawing talent and his promise of farther creative grow.
F.C.A. Tonko Maroević
Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Zagreb, 2002 |
