Zoran Zugic — When the boundaries of imagination no longer apply

After exhaustive research we have come to the startling conclusion that there is no way to explain how the work of Zoran Zugic could have come into existence. His masterful technique and virtuosi would indicate a mature wisdom and educated understanding of the physical world and how it is represented in art, and all that is certainly in play here. So, how then would an accomplished self-realized artist, much less a human being, concoct images of such dizzying incomprehensibility as to shock and baffle a viewer that has made a life’s work out of suspending disbelief?

Zugic’s realm is one where infinite varieties of unknown-life-like forms, and semi-physical objects amalgamated beyond recognizability, are seamlessly intertwined to create ghastly yet wonderful being-world-landscape-abstractions that are both realistic and unbelievable at once. His use of light and color may suggest a cheerful impressionistic scene but his decisions about what can be superimposed, juxtaposed, or even proposed at all, appear to have been made from a perspective that defies human nature’s tendency to relate to, or even deviate from, something that could exist somewhere in the known universe. The aleatoricism of Zoran Zugic’s art lies in the one-in-a-billion chance of his vision, not to mention the unlikelihood of ever coming across an artist such as he.