RADENKO MILAK

From the Far Side of the Moon literally places us in movement in a succession of sequences where all linear narration disappears, replaced by a circular narration within which the darkening over to black becomes the metaphor for what cannot be seen; unrepresentable, in other words, beyond our human measure, our imagination. We see sections of landscapes in which the natural movements of water, air, smoke, plants or living creatures flow one after another. Other shots depict human beings and the mechanical rhythms of man-made machines. Fragments of an interview with Robert Oppenheimer support the underlying dramatic composition up to its somber and poetic climax. From the Far Side of the Moon is a film that plays with the symbolic perceptions of opposites, opposed and reconciled – the masculine and the feminine, the moon and the sun, the light and the dark, absence and presence, the far and the close – and brings us back to this mysterious couple, desire and disaster, that we could resume with a chiasm: desire for disaster and disaster of desire. The film can be seen as the metaphor for a journey of memory, one that would go from one catastrophe to another; never appearing in a literal sense, but more often suggested or metaphorical.

Radenko Milak after studying at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Art in Belgrade, created and managed from 2008 to 2010 Spa Port, an international contemporary art exhibition. As of 2010, he dedicated himself full time to his artistic practice and created works prolifically, mainly paintings, watercolours, drawings and animation films. He defines himself as a painter of the digital era. These works, which tend to follow the principle of the series, have been the subject of numerous exhibitions in the world; in Art Biennales as well as in Museums or Art Centers or Galleries. His works are very often exhibited in Europe, more particularly in France and Germany, where they are present in several public Art collections such as the Folkwang Museum. In 2017, he was the artist invited for the 57th Venice Biennale to represent Bosnia and Herzegovina.