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That a duality of motives and even a duality of attitudes can be fruitful has been proved as soon as Sutej exposed for the first time his "offspring of darkness", displaying his figures and types as variations on the motifs of mannequins and costumes ("Anti-fashion According to Sutej"), to be continued as toying with the typology of an arm or a chair, and finally in the form of drawings inspired by primary sexual characteristics which represent limbs par excellence touching innocently and amusedly upon otherwise suggestive and stimulating spheres of the lascivious and pornographic. This iconographic inventory makes sense only as a reference to the subject of his models, as a reminder of the webs of associations in which signs become crystallized, as a warning that constellations of light and solar clusters also spring from the darkness of the subconscious.

In the opposition between the optical and the haptic, Zvonko Makovic has perceived another, different polarization in Sutej's work. For, in addition to evident flatness, frequently emphasized by uniform and neutral layers of colour on a definite, appropriate particle, we can also perceive the artist's need to step into the surrounding space illusionistically, and even materially, or to induce the spectator to enter or at least touch the offered frame/object. Actually, in addition to a few complete three-dimensional materializations and concretizations, there is a relatively large number of "mobiles" with relief and kinetic characteristics, as well as countless works without tactile qualities which nevertheless point to a second of a third plane in the background owing to their character of graphic "modelling".

I think that we could conclude that Sutej has found his place on the dividing line between the structural saturation and organic tension, situating a large number of his works in the inter- space between reality and fiction, to say nothing of the area of trompe-l'oeil. Independently of the way of their composition and definite collocation, he has created particles which irradiate and attract, which can bear witness to a changed context by the method of pars pro toto.

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