Davor Pavlovic

The paintings of Davor Pavlovic harness the graphic force of perfect/pure contrast to evoke the intensity and immensity of natural forms.  Using black acrylic on white linen, Pavlovic epitomizes the less-is-more axiom of minimalism, where composition, stripped to its essentials, expands and emboldens the range of its reference.  While the black and white palette creates stirring, almost suspenseful images, Pavlovic's formal control gives rise to a freeing abstraction, an alluring and intimate vision of calm.  The dramatic possibility of each painting is subtly composed, allowing the images to be both emphatic and inconclusive, which allows the paintings, like the materials themselves, to touch on the elemental.  Whether sinuous or planar the lines imply naturalistic forms –valleys, bluffs, escarpments – derived from the landscape of Pavlovic's native Chile.  The vista opened by the perfect contrast of those lines exudes a sense of the sublime. 

An architect as well as an artist, Davor Pavlovic's art is likewise distinguished by a nimble sense of geometry, balance and perspective.