<<            "The fact is that things as they appear to us do not appear in their true form, but only as we are able to see them."" It is indisputable that during the nineties Milica Lukic's work used the language of geometry. Following her pictures on metal backgrounds, she creates metal compositions which follow the previously indicated geometrization- fragments and meandering variations, in any case in sign of a right angle and vertical-horizontal relations. They are geometrized objects, which, while retaining the same repeated right-angle volume, affect us by a diverse use of colored fields: gray, black, blue, yellow. In the case of Milica Lukic, the phenomenon of geometry is an integrated part of perception, and vice versa: what appears to be a thing of geometry is actually a thing of perception which affects us by a minimum amount of utilized means. Therefore the perception of volume is determined not only by standpoint, but also by the use of colors which disillusion it, varying the possibilities of the third dimension, transforming it. Or, as Pleynet mentions in one of his texts on Tony Smith, it transforms by deviation, and not by the normality of the code. Therefore, volume appears as a possible idea of it, or, the idea on it which shall be especially uncovered by each individual viewer. The works of Miroslav Perkovic seem to offer a negative and\or formal counterpoint to Milica’s objects. Formally and physically, they are totally open structures- a type of drawing in space which negates volume. On the other hand, they annul the right angle geometry and go by the geometry of the ellipse, oval, fragments of the circle, arc. They function in the dichotomy, suggesting different two-way rhytmic movements: from outside into inside and vice versa, convex-concave, from and to, towards the center and from the center. They are non-forms, non-volumes. Silhouettes, contours of (imaginary) objects. A tense absence of an erotic form, and at the end, as fundamental absence and silence. The reduction, meditation and analytic quality of Milica Lukic's and Miroslav Perkovic's works, as presented at their joint exhibition, function as a pair, in their permeation. The language of this joint project is articulated as a pair, as a pair of diverse statements on the same issue, as a pair of diverse reflections which arrive at kindred answers on art. The harmony of the entirety of aforementioned forms manifest. Lidija Merenik, Belgrade, 30.9.1996                                     Essay "Untitled", by Lidija Merenik, From the Catalogue "Objects", Grant of Soros Found, Belgarde 1995 Slides, From "Objects", Show of  M.Lukic & M.Perkovic, Gallery of KCB Belgrade, 1995