Title: Crossword Puzzle
Year: 2001

 

To be a great artist… not popular, but great. One that could become a chapter in primary school textbooks - that was my ambition after I graduated from the academy of fine arts. I thought it was fare to declare my yearning at the very beginning of my career, to plead guilty, instead of hiding this ambition behind years and years of hard work, and who knows how many art works in the future. Entering books and media was impossible, because I was nobody, and I had done nothing yet. Crossword Puzzle was an obvious solution. It is a word game which often includes a name of a great, important or popular person. If you do not know the name of such a person in your puzzle, you can get it by answering other questions. So, this game gave me an opportunity to make people find out my name in the context of a great artist by answering various questions in the field of general knowledge. Perfect, I said. This crossword puzzle was published in several art, entertainment and city guide magazines. In 2003, the puzzle was exhibited/published at the exhibition "In the Gorges of the Balkans - A Report", Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel. For that purpose a German version was created – Der gr. serbische Künstler vom Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts (siehe Bild).