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Nenad Stojanovski — featured sculpture
Artist II · Sculptor & Painter · b. 1966

Nenad
Stojanovski

Raw elements bent to the will of an untamed imagination — forging life from the brutal honesty of metal, wood, and stone.

Emerging from isolation as a self-described accidental artist, Nenad found his ultimate escape in the visceral act of creation — forged steel, scorched wood, and thick layers of oil. A striking paradox: brutal in composition, hauntingly tender in execution.

1966
Born · Belgrade
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Core Materials
2020
Return to Practice
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Working From
§ Materials

A practice of four substances.

Raw · found · forged
I · Metal
Forged & welded steel
Seam-welded plates worked hot, scorched to patina. Animals emerge from the sheet.
II · Wood
Burl & hardwood
Carved and burnt. The grain dictates where the gesture can go.
III · Stone
River stone & marble
Found pieces, minimally intervened — letting form come forward.
IV · Canvas
Oil on canvas
Dense congregations — figures, faces, crowds pressed into the plane.
§ Works

Selected by Nenad.

Sculpture & painting
Nenad — raven
The RavenForged steel
welded & patinated steel
Nenad — bird of burl
Bird of BurlWood & steel
walnut burl, forged steel
Nenad — stallion I
Stallion IWelded steel
forged & welded steel
Nenad — stallion II ignited
Stallion II · IgnitedSteel & pigment
welded steel, glass eye, red pigment
Nenad — lattice of hours
Lattice of HoursMixed media
oil & gold on canvas
Nenad — congregation
The CongregationOil on canvas
Nenad — choir
ChoirOil on canvas
“
In the heavy depth of isolation, the fire of the forge and the cut of the chisel became my only true escape.
— Nenad Stojanovski