WITHIN THE CITYSCAPE

(Artistic marks of cities belonging)

Nikola uica

Artists regarded the theme Within the CityScape (Artistic marks of cities belonging) while facing situational setting,
both in the physical disposition of Arts Pavillion, as well as in their inner transfer. Urbanity is often related to self-
awareness and reflection relying to the core of self-realization of individual and public existence. Range of
expression as featured in theoretical and practical perception conveyed the disturbances and instability in the
technological totality through contemporary outcomes. Since the exposure referring to the topic indicates the mix of
programmed content, it depends on the diversity of observation. Focus expected to look at 'the city range' carried
the scope of individual, social and spiritual existence. Imagining urban experience is matched in its astounding
cultural durability, but also pointing toward hidden economy laws of our age. The increasing demographic and
population changes contribute to keen variability surprises and in some places even collapsed and neglected
aspects of design. The cities dilapidated structures are obvious platforms of dynamism, as they review
simultaneously memories and visions of upcoming changes. The habitual aspects of smaller cities and towns
through their torn and fragmented narrative art-accentuates confession in an advanced stage of multimedia
treatments. Their essence becomes anecdotal and cultural archive like ancient polis. On the other hand, expansive
and unregulated settlements stem from human inner fight for quantitative accumulation of matter: the experience in
an increasely accentuated, marketing artificial enforceable energy joins activities within the present-day life. Hence
the imagery and views of metropolis consider a stratum of fragmented viewpoints, the loss of energy and often a
pervading entropy. For artists focused on evocative trails or culture of memory, personal sentiment becomes a
satirical relict from the era of modern culture. This happens inside artistic affaires where technological turmoil is the
new genre and behavioral topography. It emphasizes electromagnetic, wave and biological data, as well as the
various transmissions, striving away from the often neglected mechanic foundations, often understood as the
archaism left to the oblivion. The rise of micro-moments in perceptual relations to the environment of big cities has
been a global phenomenon for decades, often adopted and pasted in the areas of small towns. The overall historical
life, as well as traces of vegetative nature make a discerning personal obsession, that leads to amusing methods of
expression. This range embraces a virtual moving imagery, both in video wall projection or a screen in its opposed
sensations. Urban data and material is often transferred in real-time, or through other outputs emphasizing the
object fndings in tactility, the use of organic material, as well as referring to the sketches and animation, joined by
an intuitive acts of performing arts. In yearning to the future (as well as new forms of slavery), in the discerning
essay 'Metropolis and Spiritual Life' (1903), Georg Simmel pointed out that the "vital forces have been integrated,
with the fleeting existence of a single cell, into the root, as well as the crown of the totality of historical life to which
we belong it is our task not to complain or to condone but only to understand.
Therefore, the actions in various media of visual arts, within urban assumption shows a release of the interior world.
It is not an objective modernist fantasy, but a course of self-derived awareness both from feminine and masculine
culture, from those formative emancipatory years inside the paradox from excitement and indifference of today.
Notion of the City is crystallized in artistic sense and experiences through diverse causes and affections throughout
their selected works.