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Sex (2008) by Milan Stamenovic — mixed media on canvas with horizontal collaged form beneath suspended white band and minimal red square accent.

Sex

2008

Mixed media on canvas
60 × 50 cm
Italy

Series: Declarative Fields: Language Under Tension (2008) Italy

Cycle: Structural Cycles 2007–2009

In SEX, language is no longer descriptive — it is exposed.

The work operates within the field of declarative reduction. The composition is stripped to a horizontal register suspended between weight and suspension. Fragments of paper, pigment, and gestural incision are assembled under strict spatial control. Nothing performs excess. Nothing seeks seduction.

The title functions as a declarative rupture — not as provocation, but as structural compression. The word is neither illustrated nor denied; it is contained within a field that refuses emotional expansion.

Here, language becomes material.
Desire becomes syntax.
Meaning is treated as tension.

The surface remains disciplined.
The statement remains unresolved.

Exhibitions & Distinctions

 

Museum Collection

National Museum of the city of Knjaževac 

Knjaževac – Serbia 
Acquired 2021

 

The Pieces
Solo Exhibition
Ex Chiesa di San Carlo dei Barnabiti
Florence, Italy
2009

Structural Context

Series: Declarative Fields: Language Under Tension (2008)
Period: Structural Cycles 2007–2009
Executed in Italy

Collection / Provenance

Public Collection
This work forms part of the permanent collection of National Museum of the city of Knjaževac – Serbia

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