19.11.2009. – 15.12.2009.
Djordje Ivackovic is one of the artists who have accepted the belief in the autonomy of the image and its independent life. At the beginning of the fifth decade of the last century in Belgrade, Ivackovic studied architecture and played avant-garde jazz music. At the beginning of the sixth decade he left Belgrade in order to go to Paris and began his artists – painters career. From Belgrade, oddly, he brought fascination with American contemporary art. This fact settled him among Parisian painters who were the representatives of lyrical abstraction, but with significant particularities that come precisely from these different influences. In the years when Ivackovic left Belgrade, local visual arts scene was still developing its conformist modernity in those frames that were ruled by (political) regime and ideological situation. There was no place for radical forms of abstraction that involves dealing with purely artistic problems. In Paris, from which all pre-war avant-garde and after-war freedom of artistic expression originated Ivačković found a fertile environment for their work.
From exhibition catalog text by Ivana Benovic.