Dragan Mijac ‘Brile’ – ‘Ćar (Tsar) Lazar’ – 2001 – Old railway sleeper & metal.
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Brille in common with many of his fellow artists had a profound interest in his nation’s history and religion. With the events of Kosovo still fresh in his mind the sculpture of Tsar Lazar marks a commemoration of the battle of Kosovo Polje in 1389 in which the Serbian leader lost his life on June 28th, now marked annually by a national holiday, ‘Vidovdan’. The sculpture is fashioned from an old impregnated and painted railway sleeper embellished with a metal crown and cross.
"Brile"
Ćar Lazar
This locally derived stone is primarily used for decorative stonework in Serbian churches both old and new. It is favoured by sculptors not only for the ease with which it can be fashioned, but the flexibility of artistic expression that such a medium lends the sculptor. Here Brile chose to express his idea by combining abstraction in the style of Picasso, with his observation of the cragged face of an old man in his native Montenegro.
