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media, and widespread marginalization of a man and his individuality,   wide open, represent on our faces the reflection of world health status.
            can stand as a mode of survival, the foundation of strength of not only   The abyss of our mouths is proportional to the defeat of our hopes for
            traditional painting, but also of art and humankind collectively. No matter   a better future. Since the first ditch we were not able to cross over
            how my paintings are my subjective opinion and personal poetry, I   successfully, through the series of ravines where we got stuck in and
            reserve enough space for a spectator and his personal combinatorics,   suffocated, until the abyss where we are now sinking down, our mouths,
            provoked by my visual expression.”                     wide open, show the real portrait of ourselves. Markus can clearly see it
            Miloš Šobajic, from the catalog of the exhibition Scream-Genesis of   and confirms, without any beautification and make up. Dragan Marković
            motives, Belgrade, 2012, said, ”It was Edvard Munch who showed   Markus is screaming from his paintings, as we all are, but no one can hear
            us that a painting also has a sound, even the screaming, loud one. In   us. Markus’ paintings were created in one breath, in several strong and
            the presence of paintings by Dragan Markovic Markus, we can hear a   effective strokes. This work confirms, in daring and significant manner,
            disturbing scream coming from them. His paintings, with their mouths   that we are conscious of our existence.














































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