That's not easy, even in the more efficient societies then Serbian. Well, the life of an artist is difficult even under the best of conditions, because artists are on the brink of the society, they depend of weather they would be able to exchange their artistic production to bread, or not. How easy it is for an artist to create under these conditions? To plan events of unpleasant situations that had experienced a moment ago? I guess that even now I'm exploring the reality of life in Serbia, but in a different way from 1990s.
And at the same time, I did not want to make it the sole characteristic of my artistic quest - some people were expecting that I would continue to speak about the political turmoil in ex-Yugoslavia until the rest of my life, but I actually was changing through time, I experimented with different topics, evolved. It is rather bizarre, but it was this tragedy that happened in the everyday reality that accelerated my wish to publish my comics internationally. (Laughs) I was actually very much willing to express my thoughts in a form of comics, the more horrible things were around me the more near was my will to present it in my comics. Those who the war was a source of inspiration and those who have lost their will to create. Where A. In «Life under sanctions» you refer to two kinds of artists. I would not to offer any definitive answer to such a complex question. If you were able to guess from my own experience what it was all about, then that's it. Instead, I tried to depict the intimate story of a small people such as I. I think he was right, many years has passed, but we are still trying to understand what happened, and WHY!? I tried to express this complexity in my comics, by avoiding to put the blame on this or the other aspect of this event. It's funny, even though what he said was coming more from his guts then from his brain, when I heard his words I believed that this rock musician said something more true then many politicians and /or political analysts about this matter. Once, it was Dušan Kojić Koja, musician and a founder of Disciplina kičme, a cult band from Belgrade, who said that we will spend the rest of our lives trying to figure out why it happened. Looking after twenty years of the start of the Civil War, the rise of nationalist movements was the causation or the cause of the war? Τhe breakup of Yugoslavia was preordained?Īctually, the decomposition of Yugoslavia was a complex event. Interview - Editors: Fotis Takos, Evaggelia Asimakopoulou
, after 20 years, seats down and discusses with the famous Serbian illustrator, concerning the past and also about the future, through the eyes of an artist way ahead of his era.
MYCOMICS GR SERIES
The famed cartoonist Alexander Zograf, captures the events of that period in a series of comics with a high dose of discernment, objectiveness and humor.
In Belgrade, Milosevic enhance his regime trough media propaganda and the suppression of the police forces. On the other hand, UN (United Nations) intensifies the economical commercial and athletic embargo against Serbia, leading the country into international isolation and the people into plight state. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was taking part actively, against the Serbian - Bosnian forces. It was December of 1994 and the Yugoslavian civil war had reached the peak of.
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