Amavia Exhibition

Rade Petrasevic’s paintings use a distinctive and vibrant palette, which is intensified by his use of flat, expressive brushstrokes that handle the oil paint as if it were a marker pen. His Still Life paintings explore complex messages and narratives surrounding life and death and processes of mutability known as Vanitas, mortality and morality. Vanitas is a Latin word meaning ‘emptiness’, depicting the transient nature of vanity. Petrasevic uses this technique to symbolically represent the transient nature of the human condition.

Rade Petrasevic (b. 1982, Vienna) is a Bosnian- Austrian painter who lives and works in Vienna. Petrasevic’s paintings use a distinctive and vibrant palette, which is intensified by his use of flat, expressive brushstrokes that handle the oil paint as if it were a marker pen. This lends a highly contemporary feel to the work and all-over composition that is imbued with starting dynamism – referencing painters such as Philip Guston and David Hockney without becoming a pastiche.

Selected solo and group show of Petrasevic’s work include ALMA ZEVI London (2021) and Venice (2020 and 2018); Christine Konig Galerie, Vienna (2021, 2020 and 2019); ALMA ZEVI Celerina, Switzerland (2019); Friedman Benda in New York (2019); Salon, Hamburg (2019); Charim Galerie, Vienna (2018); Buro Weltausstellung, Vienna (2018); Everybody Needs Art, Budapest (2017); Limoncello Gallery, London (2016); Circle Culture in Berlin (2015); The Breeder, Athens (2015); and the Breeder at Frieze London (2015).

Rade Petrasevic has created a large-scale mural that covers the full length of the front glass facade of Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna (2021).