LAZAR's Profile

From: France
Joined: April 11, 2008
www.lazartibor.com

About Lazar:

Tibor Lazar was born in 1980, in Bečej (Serbia). He finished elementary and secondary school in Bečej. Tibor studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad, from where he graduated in 2004. He started his postgraduate studies in Novi Sad in 2004 and in Switzerland in 2006

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2004-Exit festival - Novi Sad
2004-Exhibition of perspective students of the final year –
"ART KLINIKA" Gallery - Novi Sad
2005-Exhibition of new members - "SULUV" Gallery – Novi Sad
2005-Exhibition of awarded students of the final year -
"PODRUM" Gallery – Novi Sad
2006-An exhibition of 11 contemporary Serbian artists-Budapest
2007-Portraits-Subotica/Novi Sad
2007-”Devenir animal”-Arsenic, Lausanne


Solo Exhibitions:

1999-Bečej
2001-Novi Bečej
2004-Novi Sad
2004-Senta
2005-Subotica
2006-Novi Sad
2006-Novi Sad


Awards/Prizes:

2003-Award for academic success
2004-Annual Award for painting - Academy of Fine Arts, Novi Sad
2004-Award for exceptional academic success
2005-Merit Award for the best student of the Academy,
University of Novi Sad
2005-Prize from "LITTLE PRINCE" fund

THE BODY
The main subject of my art is the body and man. The return to the body is the only certainty in general uncertainty.

THE SIZE
The guideline of my research is enlargement, the multiple increase of the original, natural size. This is the reason I decided to focus the canvas only on a tiny piece of the body, a segment of a surface, a curving line, a muscle, a shape of a part the natural size of which can be multiplied. The composition is simplified and clean. The whole attention is on the flesh. These segments can keep the main features of body parts but the recognizability is not necessary criteria for me. The unpleasant effect may be created by its disproportion, the lack of the cut parts and the overdimensioning and constant expansion of the remained details. The given surface is, however, not enough. Mass is about to break out of it, this way creating a claustrophobic space. This is the inspection of the body from which the head, the face, the portrait is no exception. These parts are of the same value as any other surface of the body.


ZOOM
My goal is to get close to my subjects. When we focus our glance on an object and we approach it, it becomes larger and larger in our field of vision. Closer to it, certain details are no longer within the frame of our vision. In my work, this is also observable. Due to the "zooming", there is progressively less and less on the picture, however, what remains demands a larger surface area. Being so near, we would sense a body's scent, warmth, its aura. My paintings depict the body during the last few seconds before we would be too close and everything would turn dark. With further steps to approach the subject, we would enter the body and the flesh. Thus, we would reach the meaningless singular colour that would fill all that is inside the frame. It is not by accident that some of the photos I find are photos taken in labs which depict cells or body tissue. Although these are not directly present in my paintings, they are important sources of information for me, uncovering what hides under our skin, in the depths of the body.