Marin Majic, who resides in Berlin, creates paintings that present a vision of unsettling idyll. He draws imagery from varied sources—magazines, screen shots, film stills—creating plausible but unlikely combinations of scenery, faces and activities. Translating these collages into large-scale paintings with painstaking deliberateness, the images acquire a cache of familiarity in spite of (or due to) their uncanny subject matter. ,/br>
Marin Majic was born in 1979 in Frankfurt, Germany. He received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia. He was a finalist in the 45th Zagreb Salon as well as the Salon of Young Art, Zagreb, both in 2010. His work was included in the 2010 seminal exhibition After the Fall at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, NY, which travelled to the Knoxville Museum of Art. He will have a solo exhibition at Isa Gallery in Mumbai, India in January 2014.
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