Misha Milovanovich
Misha Milovanovich is a Belgrade-born artist living and working in London.
Misha works across several mediums, from sculpture to painting and live art. Characterised by vivid colour, optical movement and energetic visual cadences, Misha's visual work fuses a diverse repertoire of images and forms. She often features discarded shards of consumerism - unloved icons of disposability and careless consumption.
Misha's work is often a symphonic abstraction. Her colourful, densely layered works are held in a state of tension between order and chaos, rational structure and spontaneity. She combines depth and surface relief, orchestrating bold contrasts of form, texture and space in her pictures. An intimate colour palette of bodily fluids - red, pink, white, black, yellow and brown - animate the writhing forms and the refracted memories of cartoonish cultural production.
A cultural polymath, Misha is constantly engaged in observing society and it’s distortions of desire, lust and attitudes to the body. Traditional techniques have been studied and absorbed and although her work is partly conceptual, it's execution always reflects these hard won technical abilities. Misha's main subject matter is emotion, so naturally her work is highly personal and biographical in ways that create a direct, emotional response from the viewer. Empathy and the universals of human experience - passion, nostalgia, desire and disgust are inescapable in her work.
Misha is herself a ‘displaced’ person, having left Serbia for London in her late teens she still carries within her a ‘stranger’s perspective’ and perceives the world as an outsider, someone ever alert to the non-verbal subtleties of communication.
Misha's artistic progenitors include her mentor Martin Kippenberger, Wassily Kandinsky and Phillip Guston as well as contemporary artists Gilbert and George, Keith Tyson, Robert Pruitt and Jim Lambie.
Misha Milovanovich's sculptural works blends motifs from a variety of sources including Dada, Surrealism, Bossa Nova to primitive arts and post-feminist dialogue. Milovanovich’s artwork is always spirited, humorous and filled with joy. Her playful totemic sculptures reflect a kind of prism which defines a new form of appropriation and reference-making.
Characterised by a profusion of exuberant colors and shapes, energetic visual cadences, Misha blurs boundaries—between abstraction and figuration, painting and sculpture, flatness and dimensionality, formalism and conceptualism—demonstrating the richness of the middle ground between opposites. In her most recent work, Misha Milovanovich’s unique aesthetics absorbs network of influences with centres around primitive and mythology. These are anthropomorphic creations that exude warmth and humour and perform (nod/homagge) to Miro, Picasso, David Smith, Louise Bourgeois and Noguchi. Her work blends animal shapes and shapes of nature always giving it human quality, that of primeval man that still resides in cerebellum part of our brain and is lost in the age of post-truth world that finds its self digitally displaced. Her work relates to human condition and our connection with natural world and our selves, yet offers optimism in the face of contemporary absurdity. Everything connects to her biography - lived experiences, learned techniques, jokes, memories and eulogies.
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Misha MilovanovichCherry Ghost, 2022Birch Ply and Formica80 x 50 x 46 cm
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Misha MilovanovichLittle Mica, 2022Sculpture composed of resin and cellulose
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity18 cm x 10.5 cm x 9 cm -
Misha MilovanovichMini Sedna [Yellow], 2022Sculpture composed of resin and cellulose
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity18 cm x 8.5 cm x 8.5 cmEdition of 10 -
Misha MilovanovichLittle Tuli, 2021Unique sculpture composed of 1.5 mil aluminium
Hand-painted and airbrushed with cellulose and enamel
Inscribed with the artist's signature and datedH: 38 cm x W: 26 cm x D: 20 cm -
Misha MilovanovichOne Eye Philosopher, 2021Unique powder-coated 3mm mild steel
Available in other colours and three scales62 H x 37 W x 24 D cm -
Misha MilovanovichWhen the Rain Drop Kisses the Plexipuss, 2021Perspex 3 mm acrylic sheet
Artist Proof (Concept Work)3 sizes available -
Misha MilovanovichPlingo, 2021Unique powder-coated 3 mm mild steel
Available in other colours and three scalesH 62 x W 48 x D 28 cm -
Misha MilovanovichButterfly Bee, 2020-21Unique powder-coated mild steel
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Misha MilovanovichHarbour Porpoise, 2020-21Unique powder-coated mild steel
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Misha MilovanovichJoyful Nuna, 2020-21Unique powder-coated mild steel
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Misha MilovanovichOvi, 2020-21Unique powder-coated mild steel
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Misha MilovanovichPinga, 2020-21Unique powder-coated mild steel
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Misha MilovanovichSedna, 2020-21Unique powder-coated mild steel
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Misha MilovanovichTulipinga, 2020-21Unique powder-coated mild steel
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Misha MilovanovichButterfly Bee, 2020Unique powder-coated 3mm mild steel
Available in other colours and three scales60 H x 21 W x 21 D cm -
Misha MilovanovichMica, 2020Powder coated 6 mm mild steel
Sculptures available in other colours
170 H x 90 W x 83 D cm -
Misha MilovanovichPinki, 2020Unique powder-coated 6mm mild steel
Available in other colours and three scales108 H x 90 W x 83 D cm -
Misha MilovanovichPlexippus, 2020Unique powder-coated 3mm mild steel
Available in other colours and three scales60 H x 40 W x 26 D cm -
Misha MilovanovichBonobo, 2019Powder-coated steel, comprised of fourteen single parts
Available in other colours and three scales3 sizes available
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The Hour Forever
7 Sep - 31 Oct 2021Dellasposa Gallery is delighted to introduce The Hour Forever..., an exhibition that presents a series of vignettes that capture the unfolding of time, with artwork depicting dynamic shifts that occur...Read more -
The Shape of Colour
Misha Milovanovich 14 Apr - 12 Jun 2021EXPLORE EXHIBITION ONLINE BOOK YOUR VISIT Dellasposa is delighted to announce an exhibition of new sculptures by Misha Milovanovich, marking her first solo show with the gallery. The...Read more
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When the Roots are Deep: Sculptures by Misha Milovanovich
Christian Domínguez, June 21, 2021 -
The Shape of Colour: Misha Milovanovich
Trebuchet Magazine, April 20, 2021 -
The Top 5 Art Exhibition in London To See IRL or Online
Tabish Khan, FAD Magazine, April 19, 2021 -
Art in Connaught Village
Connaught Village, April 17, 2021 -
Shop London: Our Editor Picks
Prudence Ivey, Evening Standard, April 16, 2021 -
Misha Milovanovich: The Shape of Colour
Ocula, April 1, 2021 -
Misha Milovanovich Unveils New Sculptures in London Gallery Dellasposa, The Shape of Colour NFT
Keyanna Harper, NFTS Daily, March 30, 2021 -
Misha Milovanovich’s exhibition The Shape of Colour promises to be something rather special
Sean Worrall, March 13, 2021 -
The Shape of Colour: An Exhibition of New Sculptures by Misha Milovanovich
Mark Westall, FAD Magazine, March 12, 2021 -
The Shape of Colour - Misha Milovanovich
March 10, 2021