Aleksandar Duravcevic
Aleksandar Duravcevic is an artist with a wide-ranging practice that stretches from video to installations and painstakingly-executed drawings. His works probe issues such as mortality, memory and identity. These are subjects that he tackles from a unique perspective, having been brought up in Montenegrin tribal society, before fleeing his homeland on the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.
I am standing in front of Nicolas Poussin’s Eucharist (ca. 1637–40), a painting of The Last Supper in Room 29 at the National Gallery in London. I have never seen it before; it says recent acquisitions on the label next to it. It’s a very different picture. Not your usual Poussin master class of colorful floating figures and storytelling. Ironically it’s perhaps the most Caravaggio-like painting he ever made.
