of Sculpture” and it was very interesting. There were Rasa, Nesa,
Olga Jevric, Pepa Pascan, Vladan Radovanovic, artists appreciated
at the time by a rather small group of people. I do not posses any of
those sculptures. I found just one photo. At that exhibition I presented plastic models of the sculptures that I made for the laser. I
was very involved with laser projections at the time.
What did those laser projections look like?
I had three laser projections, but from a present technological view, today they seem pretty ridiculous. It was more of a desire
of mine to do these public projections, than they actually were such.
You could barely see them, or they were not visible at all. I used to
make them in front of my home. My best friend’s father would get
me a laser on Friday and I would have to return it by Sunday evening
or Monday morning. There were only few lasers in Belgrade at the
time and I was able to do all this only thanks to this man. I got some
prisms, reflecting mirrors…. My idea was that a sculpture should
have two sculptures within, a daytime and a night one. A daytime
sculpture – those were the plastic models that I made – was supposed to be a sculpture in a public ambient and requested a smaller
park. My ambitions were not at all humble. At night, sensor-activated at sunset, a laser would turn on. At that point, the daytime
sculpture was no longer visible, but only the night one. It was a
sculpture made of light and completely different from the daytime
one. As night and day alternate, so were supposed to do the sculptures. There was absolutely no interest in such things at the time.
Some time later, during a celebration at Zagreb, Baumann from Munich was invited, and he made a spectacular laser project at the Ban
Jelacic square: a five-pointed red star hovering over the square. It
looked spectacular. As a German artist he saw the country as a socialist one. The idea was weak and also technically easy to perform.
Baumann was already a known artist in this kind of technological
art. After that, I stopped dealing with laser. I realised it had no sense
to me, and I was already attracted by other things.
In the ‘80’s, when almost everyone started using colour, you
worked in mo