Example II. Author: Cedomir Vasic,
Final Solution, 1999. and Evening in the
Mountain, The Road to Oz and Infinity, 1999

This work addresses the role of replication in social. Cultural and political surroundings. Vasic chose pictures that have specific iconography and symbolic importance in Serbia with clear intentions: The Herzegovina Fugitives by Uros Predic, The Serb Migration by Paja Jovanovic, and The Kosovo Maiden by Uros Predic. These works by the most renowned Serbian academic realist painters from the end of the 19th century represent a part of the national collective memory, and have become topical due to the recent events in the Balkans. The problem of reproducing national myths and symbols in political propaganda is underlined, as well as the power possessed by the reproductions in communicating with the masses, which finally leads to the creation of a total psychosis in crisis times of crisis. Offering each visitor the opportunity to print his own copy suggests the fact that, although passive, he/she is participant in the entire propaganda game, in the inflation of icons and the decrease of national values. In addition, Vasic erases the central event through digital intervention, annulling the plot, scenes and entire dramaturgy. An idealised landscape is created from the historic scene. However, this is not only a change of genre. The existing is deprived of its meaning, collective memory is erased, while pointing out the drastic consequence, of wrongly employed myths. Another, further reading could also indicate the global phenomenon of bending and retouching information disseminated through the mass media, which is proven daily to be a mighty means of political communication and of creating a public conscience.

This work used a national myth for its starting point. The following employs an icon of European Culture and European graphic art.

Cedomir Vasic
The Final Solution,1999, computer print,
(interpretation of The Kosovo Maiden painting by UrosPredic)


Cedomir Vasic, Evening in the Mountain, 1999, computer print, interactive installation
(interpretation of the Fugitives from Herzegovina painting by Uros Predic)


Cedomir Vasic, The Road to Oz and Infinity, 1999, computer print,
(interpretation of the Serbian Migration painting by Paja Jovanovic)