Barcelona Art Presents Goran Medjugorac's Exhibition ¡Pata Negra! in GAP Gallery BCN

Barcelona, Spain, February 13, 2011 --(PR.com)-- His country ripped away from him behind the veil of a false promise at an influential age: to say this has an influence on Goran Medjugorac is an understatement: “I am a man with no country: I spent 20 Years growing up as a Yugoslav and that was taken away from me, you don’t get that back.”

Goran goes on to say: “There are many of us, I like to call us ‘cosmopolitans’ because we are truly of the world.”

The breakup of Yugoslavia was done under the pretense of a better future: The realization of a 1000 year dream. Promising all the people Freedom, Democracy, Prosperity and Choice, much the same dialogue we have heard recently regarding Afghanistan and Iraq, when in truth it was much more to do with the greed of a few individuals.

This decoration – distortion - of the truth is very much the underlying theme in the exhibition ¡Pata Negra! previewing at GAP gallery before moving onto galleries in Eastern Europe and South America.

However much you dress it up, however much you decorate it, it’s still a dead pig

Goran is uncharacteristically reserved when speaking about his work: “I don’t believe in putting art into words. It doesn’t work - it simplifies it too much: codifying it. It’s like if you try and draw God it doesn’t work you end up breaking it down so much you just end up with a picture of an old man with a beard which entirely misses the point of God.”

So if you want to learn more you will have to try and catch a glimpse of ¡Pata Negra! running from the 3rd to the 31st of March at GAP gallery BCN: Carrer Sant De Honorat, 11 (Just off Plaça de Sant Jaume) Barcelona Nearest Metro Stop: Jaume I (L4)

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