EXHIBITION
PARADOX
Paradox – “A seemingly unacceptable conclusion derived from a seemingly acceptable premise, through a seemingly acceptable conclusion”
Darko Moraitov’s Paradoxes give us a strong incentive for critical thinking; a motivation for our intellectual instruments of judgment. In fact, they suggest a kind of visual antinomy of the stories-puzzles which are being presented.
In this view, Moraitov’s Paradoxes are not spatial, but temporal. Therefore, they can be “defined” as “future in the past”, as a spiritual and cerebral balance of contradictions. The initial futurism in Moraitov’s motifs is not aimed at a final separation with the past; rather, it acts as a touch of tradition and rebellion, as a blend of memory and idea. A thought without a paradox is like a lover without passion; a photograph without a paradox is like a frigid mistress.
This pictorial (deliberately not – photography) project, at times, “immodestly” exceeds the limits of the paradoxical, simultaneously flirting with oxymorons and irony, with causerie such as “complete fragmentation”, or “the essence of polystyrene”.
The abundance of symbolic indicators: white – cognition, red – concentration, milk – immortality, pomegranate – fertility, fish – life, egg – conception/meditation… enhances the key narrational-visual structure of Moraitov’s photographs.
The research of paradox is the basic skeleton of his creative experiment, generously complemented with precision of perspective, consistency of composition and high selectivity of the energy points of each individual piece.
This project is like a journey through the wondrous dimensions of human imagination; like insisting on an interpretative effort in discovering one’s own paradoxes.
EXHIBITION
TWOCONSTRUCTION
As usual the title emerges from the idea. In the case of Darko Moraitov, i.e. the collection of portraits titled "TWOconstruction" shows primarily synthetic and formally unifying structure of portraits as well as an attempt to disclose the diversity.
The uniformity of the “black and white” human is only on the surface of his photographs. Underneath one could discover endless number of nuances of colours, invisible and tactile, unreal and pastel, inexistent but present. Hence, the black and white function as equal values without a mutual conflict but a subtitle moment of their symbolic opposition. There you can find the peeking of the chromatic scale of worm and cold nuances in Moraitov’s photographs where one could notice discrete facing of the shadows and the light, not allowing any of them to have the advantage but they are double determined following the yin and yang principle.
Moraitov wants to stimulate the consumer’s curiosity, to force discovering of ancient but not random things,to stimulate the senses and to awake the sleepy optimism. However, Moraitov also needs to scratch in the alter ego of his models, in their homo duplex which is immanent only to the conscience mammal, to both question and to respond.
By choosing the diptych as a form the author discovers the double meaning, he propose dualism in the uniqueness, the monism of the plus and the minus, the range of the unisonism.
However, the complexity is neither the style nor the method of Moraitov. On the contrary his lens reacts sharply and precisely, without any unnecessary affection. Maybe that is the reason behind the simplicity of his expression we can find the principle of discovering the beautiful. The camera in Darko’s hands does not search for symbols and metaphors but it discovers them and records them in a spontaneous manner. For this reason the mood of those on his portraits is the crucial moment of the author’s inspiration when the stop-frame is the real moment separated from the “motion’s monotony”.
COLLAGES
Roundabout Faces
"Roundabout Faces" is a captivating collage mixed media artwork that seamlessly blends various elements to evoke a sense of surrealism and introspection. Through a fusion of textures, colors, and imagery, the piece invites viewers on a journey into the subconscious, where reality and fantasy intertwine. With each glance, new layers of meaning and emotion emerge, creating an immersive experience that transcends traditional artistic boundaries.
