Some of the art projects professionally documented for the artists and institutions

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“H is for horse, H is for hope” – Saskia Boddekke and Peter Greenaway installation in Spoleto, Italy
photo: © Igor Mandic

I would like to invite you to the opening of my new photography exhibition “tranquilo” on June 28th 2016 in Spanish cultural center gallery in Belgrade, corner of  Čika Ljubina and Knez Mihajlova streets.

Yesterday was opening of my exhibition MECHANISMUS in Zemun, Belgrade, Gardoš tower, here is some photos from event.

As a part of “Belgrade Photo Month”, my exhibition of photo collection “MECHANISMUS”

12th – 26th April, Gardoš tower in Zemun – Belgrade

Opening is on 12th April in 19.00 h  

of Nikola Tesla

Cinemagraphs made by Bojana Radić, my synthetic photography master class student at Faculty of Media and Communications

Photo ©: Bojana Radić

Censored (for unclear reasons) exhibition of group of photographers “Kamerades”
gallery Artget 10.03.-15.03.2016.

click on image to start a tour

Virtual photo of exhibit:

http://virtual.igormandic.com/VBR/VBR.html

Radio interview about collection:

PORTRAITS OF HAND

Human is born without awareness of its shape and only after half a year it discovers its hands.
I discovered my hands as a grown up child when I was about ten years old and since then I’ve paid more attention to the human hands than to the face.

Face can fool me, hands have not yet.
From them I can read.

They say that eyes are the mirror of the soul. Maybe, but I’m completely sure that hands are the mirror of life.

Saskia Boddeke contacted me earlier this year and she told me that she and Peter Greenaway are preparing project “Obedience” at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. One of the rooms in the project is God’s room, they saw a photo of hands that I had done long ago and they wanted me to be a part of the project. We talked about it and I told them that for me there is no God, for me there are seven billion gods, so this will be a human hand; Image of God is to look for the man and pray for his salvation but what is obvious is that prayer is a passive thing, means god is sitting idly in every case.

They liked the idea and I’ve done about 40 photos of human hands. I chose 10 of them, which I presented as part of “Obedience” project in Berlin. This collection of photographs size 80x80cm will not be reproduced, photographs will remain the original copies. The exhibition in Berlin runs until November 15, 2015, so if you find yourself near…

Igor Mandic Saskia Boddeke, Peter Greenaway PHOTO: Yves Suckdorf

Exhibition of “Rorschach test” photo collection 12th – 21st May in the beautiful space of old tower “Gardosh” in Zemun, Belgrade.

HERE >>    you can see some of the photos from the collection.

PHOTO: Igor Mandić

PHOTO: Sandra Mandić

PHOTO: Miki Veličković

from daily newspaper “Politika”

PHOTO: Sandra Mandić

PHOTO: Sandra Mandić

PHOTO: Sandra Mandić

PHOTO: Sandra Mandić

PHOTO: Sandra Mandić

Eiffel tower is just a park decoration. This crane is true art.

Sometimes I am just claiming the obvious.

Prometheus 2015

I am curious about you.

Click on photo for more :

TEST No1,
March 1st 2008

Today Mirko Ilic had a multimedia lecture as a part of Festival of Tolerance, in “Dom omladine”  (Youth Center) in Belgrade. Topic was fascistic iconography present in public space on the territory of former Yugoslavia and abroad. It was, as I expected, a great talk in a fully packed large hall.

Mirko Ilic, Dom omladine Beograda

I had a chance to meet Mirko for the first time about 6 years ago, at his studio in NYC. He is one of graphic designers that I admire the most. His works are sharp, often critical and with very little holding back. Few days after we met for the first time, we met again so I photographed him for… Well, I forgot what was initial purpose, but photos ended up in Elle magazine as well as in some book about him. Here are a few of them.

As I am uploading these photos, I just recall one interesting situation. Few days prior to this shooting, I was having coffee at Bryant Park when a homeless man approached me asking for a cigarette. I gave him two, one for later. We had a chat, he was born in Bosnia as well as I was. His name is Vinko.

Vinko at Bryant Park

So, a few days later, Mirko and I were standing, sipping coffee at Times Square, waiting for neon signs to turn on, so that we can take more photos, when a homeless man approached us asking for change. I recognized him and I said: “Mirko, allow me to introduce you to Vinko, he was also born in Bosnia.” The three of us: Mirko, world class graphic designer in “Boss” coat (made in Bosnia), me in military jacket and Vinko in some sport jacket (older than me), are standing there. We all started life in the same small country, we had three completely different life paths and life gathered us there at Times square by some bizarre chance…

And then – neon signs turned on. We had to work.

Spanish cultural center Cervantes in Belgrade. Exhibit of photographer David Pujadó just ended yesterday.

I made a virtual tour of it. Click on image below and follow 

DAVID

On this LINK you can see more photographs made with this camera and my thoughts about it.

lonely at the top

Thanks to my friend professor Dragan Pavlovic and SONY Serbia, I had a chance to play with Alpha 7 SONY camera. Soon I will post my review of it but until then here is just two photographs that I made with it yesterday.

are the wings of Icarus

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe