The Centerfor DepthArt was born from the Art BrutSerbia Association in 2024, which after 10 years of existence, carried out aninternal transformation inspired by original, live experiences in working withhundreds of different groups of people and individuals, in the country andabroad. In this way, the Center represents the profiled continuity of allachieved results, realized activities and content, and the core of artists thatpractically formed through the Association.The Center has its own ART CLUB and ART COLLECTION.
The founder of the Center for Depth Art is Goran Stojčetović (1975) an artist who,despite his academic education, found his artistic expression in art brut, whenhe experienced a vision in which in 2013, after two days of drinking alcohol,he saw the sentence: "GoranStojčetović does not exist anymore. Only art brut, no more running away."After that, he founded and led the ArtBrut Serbia Association until 2024, when he transformed the associationinto the Center for Depth Art. Atthe same time, he defined his entire artistic work and research with the termhe coined as Depth Art. Through hispersonal artistic practice, he developed a special drawing technique that hecalled Depth Drawing. Since 2015,when he founded the Art brut studio VMA,he has been practicing Depth Drawing workshops within the regular treatment ofpatients of the Day Hospital of the PsychiatryClinic of the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade. Also, through depthdrawing workshops, he worked with a large number of different people in differentplaces throughout Serbia and Kosovo and Metohija, Croatia, Bosnia andHerzegovina, North Macedonia, France and Belgium.
More about the artist: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/epidemiology-and-psychiatric-sciences/article/roots-of-the-concept-of-depth-art/A9E93659042C76D7CC623FB62D080293
ART CLUB OF THE CENTER FOR DEPTH ART is the production part of theCenter and currently consists of artists: Danilo Spasović Denke, KatieWoznicki, Marjan Đarmati, Tatjana Toškov, Radmila Kačarević, Života Milanović(Zil Millano), Dragan Stanimirović Farmer and Goran Stojčetović.
ART COLLECTION OF THE CENTER FORDEPTH ART is a collection of over 2000 drawings and paintings by a large number ofdifferent people and artists, from the country and abroad, who in the past 25years donated their works or left them for the safekeeping and care of theartist Goran Stojčetović. The main part of the Collection consists of workscollected during the work of the Art Brut Serbia Association, from 2014 to2024, when the Art Brut Serbia Association was transformed into the Center forDepth Art. The main goal of the Art Collection is to actively promote all those"wayward" authors, their poetics and biographies, as well as the veryphenomenon of art created by people who are called by the need of an innerbeing. We believe that this is the largest non-institutional, privatecollection of this type of contemporary art in the Balkans.
In addition to production and collecting activities, theCenter will deal with organizing a SCIENTIFICRESEARCH PLATFORM that will work on establishing new approaches to theissue of instinctive visual creativity.
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