I am not a painter who uses a photo-camera to capture a visual sensation. I am also not a painter who looks through a window and describes what he sees. I am a painter who creates a visual sensation which is new, unknown and never-seen-before. Such painting is the product of my contemplation about color as a painterly phenomenon.

To search for the genus loci of these paintings in my homeland or yours or in the local surroundings would be a mistake. Well-known French philosopher Roland Barthes once said: “the work of art is what man wrests from chance.” Therefore, the genus loci is in chance; chance which I am able to recognize with my experience, knowledge and affects of the seen and the read. It is actually in the entire artistic heritage to which I have access. The paintings are abstract, but their language is universal. Interpret them according to their affect upon you.

Milos Milidrag
2005