Danijel Babic Online Gallery; Danijel Babic - Painter. Biography: DANIJEL BABIĆ Born 1967 in Očauš (Bosnia and Herzegovina). He attended the Secondary School for Graphic Design “Bogdan Šuput” in Novi Sad. He graduated from the College of Applied and Fine Arts in Belgrade and the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad (Art of painting department - 1995). He participated in many various collective exhibitions in SCG and abroad. He received a special prize for artistic painting at the 6th International Biennial Exhibition of Miniature Arts in Gornji Milanovac in 2000. Acknowledgement of internet magazine for contemporary art www.artmagazin.co.yu for efficient presentation in the year 2003. Solo exhibitions: 1995 Šid, gallery “Sava Šumanović” 1997 Sremska Mitrovica, library "Gligorije Vozarević" Novi Sad, gallery "Da" 1998 Novi Sad, cafe "Grafitti" Novi Sad, cafe "Dali" 1999 Novi Sad, gallery of “SULUV” Novi Sad, cafe "Grafitti" Šid, cafe "Jazz time" 2000 Novi Sad, cafe "Grafitti" Novi Sad, club "Dadidash space" 2001 Novi Sad, Museum of Contemporary Arts Novi sad, cafe/gallery "Izba" Kikinda, club "Dadidash space" Negotin, Culture Centre Gallery 2002 Sombor, Culture Centre "Laza Kostić" Novi Sad, cafe "Passage" Novi Sad, bookstore "Svetovi"(club "Aleksije Vezilić") 2003 Bečej, gallery "Krug" Beograd, Literature Fans Club "Ben Akiba" Novi Sad, gallery "Podrum" - Apolo Centre Novi Sad, club/gallery "Izba"(within project "Exchanges") Inđija, Culture Centre Gallery Novi Sad, cafe-bar/gallery "Stari Prostor" Novi Sad, cafe-bar "Dub Club" 2004 Apatin, gallery "Meander" Budapest (Hungary), gallery "Katakomba" Beograd , cafe-gallery "Ili-Ili" Strasbourg (France) , atelier of CEAAC 2005 Stara Pazova , Culture Centre Gallery Kraljevo , gallery "V.Maržik" Novi Sad , gallery SKC Novi Sad - "Bunker" 2006 Vrsac , Culture Centre Gallery Novi Sad , Culture Centre Gallery 2007 Novi Sad , cafe-club “Frida” Beograd , Rimski bunar (Noć muzeja) Berlin (Germany) , gallery “Prima Centar” CONTACTS : e-mail : info@danijelbabic.info danijelbabic@neobee.net web : www.danijelbabic.info gsm : ++ 381 64 26 36 321 Babic was here! Creative adventure of painter from Novi Sad, Danijel Babic has started in the last decade of the twentieth century. He belongs to the generation of Vojvodinian and Serbian fine artists that managed to retain the dignity and significance of the picture in the critical ninentines of the last century and the beginning of this century. The crisis of the epoch drove Babic and his peers to mature quickly at the very beginning of their artistic work – this young artist has very early created his specific expression. Thanks to his subtle feelings for the impulses of life and the world of art, Babic, in his response, created pictures in which different experiences of the modern fine art, comic strip, graphite, modern design, even caricature were summarized. At the same time this artist has succeeded to express his own personality in a clear and positive manner. The picture of Daniel Babic is realized by rationalistic constitution. Linear clearness and homogenous fields of paint are means and method to sublimate witty idea and submerge into the characteristic urbane atmosphere. Portraits, nudes, figurative compositions- whether transponed from everyday situation or »quoted« from the inventarium of modern iconography (frequently belonging to strip area) are always contemporarily determined. Such paintings have strong metaphoric tension in their motives. In the latest series the artist sees traffic signs, sign posts and billboards as superior and totally up to date symbols. Text is very often an integral part of the picture. The artist uses text to speculate his pictorial engagement (letterically and meaningfully). This impression is emphasized by discrete autobiographical remarks and signatures made by the artist over the paintings, similar to graphite or simulated designer procedure. So, sprayed text BABIC WAS HERE over the precisely, hyperrealistically painted city sign Novi Sad should be understood as witty remark, but even more as artist's confession about his presence in his own picture, as his effort to provide efficient and modern artistic testimony in the present world. Nevertheless, Babic's art holds authentic expressivity - it acts through autochthonous drawing and colour, precise fine art definitions, sovereign pictorial content, very characteristic and purely personal poetics. Sava Stepanov