People are much more interesting when they are dead. At least most of the ones I have met or am still to meet. I started to think about some people whom I spent time with during my life only after they were buried. At the beginning I thought I hadn’t perhaps given a better relationship a chance, but this turned out to be not true. I went over it and, the people were simply dull. They are much more interesting when they are silent, particularly artists. The world of the dead is fifteen times bigger than that of the life. Irrespective of my thinking there is nothing after death, sometimes in the morning after I have woken up I am glad at the idea that the world of the dead is perhaps a fun place. The works exhibited are my illustrations of events from the lives of people who still surround me. There are just a few individuals who are interesting even now while they are still alive. I decided to record in the form of drawings the way they look at life and its ending and certain events that led them to such a way of thinking. These series of works show motifs like murder, choice of makeup, attitude to food, to sex, dress, the aging of the body and its preparation for a funeral. Some events have not yet taken place, so in this case the drawings are in fact recipes that have been created on the basis of conversation. Studies of Style shows a series of choices or lack of choices from the life of an individual, events according to which he or she consciously or unconsciously builds his style of behaviour and decisions, some of which might seem to the observer to be extravagant (notwithstanding my lack of belief in the existence of the extravagant).
Studies of StyleSilvio Vujičić (HR)
Drawings, 2013

Silvio Vujičić (HR)
Silvio Vujičić (1978, Zagreb) is a visual artist and fashion designer whose work engages with themes such as clothing fetishes, sexual identity, painting pigments, gardens, poisonous and psychoactive substances, death and transience. He works across the media of printmaking, sculpture, installation and performance, marked by processes of material transformation through emergence and disappearance. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Textile Technology in Zagreb. Since 2002 he has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad (Austria, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, China, Japan, USA), including the International Triennial of New Media Art, Beijing (2011, 2014); Digiark, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2014); FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (2012); Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2005, 2009, 2012); Platform3 – Spaces for Contemporary Art, Munich (2010); Device_art, Zagreb – San Francisco – Tokyo (2004, 2006, 2010). His works are included in museum and private collections in Croatia and internationally: Lauba and MSU in Zagreb, Albertina in Vienna, and FRAC des Pays de la Loire in Carquefou. He is the recipient of the 8th Croatian Triennial of Graphics Award (2019) and the 40th Youth Salon Award in Zagreb (2006).