The Golden Architecture of Pirot

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The Golden Architecture of Pirot by the author, Mirko Stanimirovic, shows us pictures seen by the eye of an architect in love with photography. From the large views of skillfully composed buildings in the exterior, to the bold and profoundly associative details, a well-thought-out, multilayered artwork is in front of us. The color of luxurious gold instead of the sky, the deliberate bold Byzantine combination of gold with blue depicts a fictional, non-existent, idealized world. The richness of the technique can be seen through the contrast of the thick coating of golden leaves with flat surfaces of the print. Brush strokes erase what is unnecessary: parked cars, random passers-by, every trace of the ordinary, earthly life, and a festive and quiet, self-sufficient scene is created. In some pictures (Bela Mačka), a cyclist and a truck appear as part of everyday life, probably subconsciously, to conceal the sad shape of the house. Presence of life is also evident in the picture of the House in Srpskih Vladara Street: a portrait of a cyclist is depersonalized with one luscious brush stroke. 

 

Since the pictures of the author show buildings under the protection of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Culture, they also show the author's concern about the shape of those buildings, as well as admiration and respect for cultural monuments. At the same time, these works reveal the beauty and magnificence of the buildings in which people live, work, the buildings they pass by every day, but the beauty which is dormant, hidden and sacrificed to everyday life.

 

 

PhD Adriana H. Lubenova

The Paissii Hilendarskі University Of  Plovdiv, Bulgaria