Milenko Prvačkl (b.1951) studied in Institutul de Arte Plastice “Nicolae Grigorescu” in Bucharest, Romania and graduated with a Masters in Fine Art. During his studies he was influenced by works of Goya, Velazquez and Bacon. His exploration in art-making after graduation eventually transformed from the figurative to the non-representative pictorial schema. As consequent to the civil unrest in Yugoslavia, Milenko Prvacki moved to Singapore in 1991. In 1994, Milenko was invited by Joseph Mcnally to lecture at LASALLE. In 2011, Milenko was appointed senior fellow in LASALLE College of the Arts. In the following year, he received the Cultural Medallion for Visual Arts. His contribution as an artist and a teacher to the art scene in Singapore since 1992 is inestimable.As part of a set of collages, this work provides important insights into Milenko’s development of abstraction after coming to Singapore in 1991. These collage works manifest a defining moment in the artist’s continuous exploration in abstraction as it began to evolve upon his arrival in Singapore. The collage materials were locally sourced which suggests his cultural and physical immersion into the local environment. The group of works will fill a gap in the Abstraction section in the Singapore Gallery, suggesting a good thematic link to the emergence of such practices in Singapore by artists such as Thomas Yeo and Goh Beng Kwan.
