SPATIAL MOBILITY OF FINE ARTISTS AND LOCAL IDENTITY/IDENTITIES: FROM SERBIA TO GREECE AND VICE VERSA
Keywords:
Artist, migrations of ϐine artists, graphic art, local/global identity, Knez Mihailova Street, Serbia, GreeceAbstract
This research has focused on a reverse impact of street painters’ mobility, i.e. migration and remigration, on their creativity and social environments in which they create.2 The work was created based on a profound case - study research of academic painter and graphic artist, Dragiša Ćosić, who started his creative Odyssey in Serbia, spent 14 years creating in Greece and returned to Belgrade in 2014. He is one of the artists who can be seen almost daily on Knez Mihailova St., whose artwork inϐluences the formation of city’s visual identity. Τhis paper, following an analysis of narrative, visual and written material, perceives painting and graphic art as a medium for expression and merging of various cultural identities (academic space/street, local/ global identity, trendy/universal, Serbian/Greek etc.).
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