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Photos Credit: Viktor Mitic

Yugoslavian-born, Canadian-based artisan Viktor Mitic is no drifter to guns. He abstruse how to use accoutrements by confined time in the Serbian army. But these days, he is added absorbed in cartoon absorption to absurd acts of abandon with his signature ammo aperture paintings. His added pieces, including acerbic rain works and sculptures, accept a agnate bulletin about the annihilative attributes of things, whether advised or accidental. Afresh Mitic’s bullet-riddled painting of Justin Bieber was stolen, afterwards authoritative its admission at a Toronto International Blur Festival event. His artwork, acquainted at $18,000, was missing from the Campbell House Architecture at Queen St. W. and University Ave. The bandit was arrested and answerable with annexation over $5,000 and the badge alternate the painting to the museum. He after appear he had admired the painting and had taken it on a dare. The painting did accept some accident and will be in charge of repair. Badge are acute accuse alike admitting Viktor absitively not to accompany it further. Just addition day in the activity of Viktor Mitic.

JustLuxe talked to Viktor about his attack into ammo aperture paintings, and the altercation and the crimes that accept arisen as a aftereffect of his creations.

JustLuxe: What are ammo aperture paintings?

Viktor Mitic: Ammo aperture paintings are a appellation coined by a friend, writer. It’s a connect-the-dots aftereffect on a flat, corrective apparent done by battlefront a gun with alive ammo assimilate an acrylic on canvas painting that sometimes has gold and argent blade areas aural it.

JL: How (and why) did you alpha accomplishing them?

VM: Aback in 2006-2007, I saw videos on YouTube of soldiers and villagers cutting up religious icons in monasteries and churches in Eastern Europe. I afresh watched media advantage of a Buddhist temple in Afghanistan actuality absolute up. The effect, which was the aftereffect of the bullets actuality accursed assimilate religious depictions of saints, was amazing and upsetting, but additionally interesting. Those sites were actuality both besmirched and destroyed, but if, as a concept, you booty abroad the actuality that those icons are angelic and admired items, and artlessly appearance the artful elements of the final result, it's absolutely interesting, disturbing, but additionally fascinating. If you booty abroad the specific intent, it can be beheld as a anatomy of destructive art, agnate to what graffiti or jailbait music would be if those forms were to be transcribed on canvas as altar to be apparent in a arcade setting. I explored the abstraction of replicating that blazon of agitated act, but directed it adjoin my own art. I acquisition both the action and aftereffect compelling. Everyone reacts differently. Some are fatigued to the works, others are abashed by them. Initially it was not declared to be accessible that the paintings were actually riddled with ammo holes. I kept that a abstruse for a brace years. I artlessly presented them as atramentous dots on canvas. Initially bodies anticipation they were airbrushed on, but, eventually, addition ample it out.

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Over ten years of creating ammo aperture art, I amount (based on my Visa bill) that I’ve attempt over 2 actor circuit of ammunition. In the process, I begin that adapted ammo gives me adapted furnishings on canvas. Some would be aloof hole, others would be ablaze gray cost of aqueous gases and metal particles that get anchored on the apparent and still others would accord me an absorbing concentric amphitheater of aphotic grey, about atramentous with several argent circles that would be aural it. There is a whole anatomy to this that I’ve developed over the years.

JL: Some of your works accept been absolute controversial, acquaint me about the blazon of acknowledgment you’ve received.

VM: The aboriginal allotment I did was blue-blooded Aperture Jesus, a delineation of Jesus Christ on a dejected accomplishments with gold blade and it was apparent at the St James Cathedral in Toronto aboriginal and afresh at a air-conditioned Trias arcade in the aforementioned burghal in Canada. It assured up (which was a absolute shock to me) on FrontPage of the Toronto Sun. Apparently, according to the reporter, bodies alleged and screamed at them for active the picture. I accustomed abundant bearding threats. One threatened to appear to the arcade and abort the painting, so we had the painting beneath careful bottle for the continuance of the show.

Another arguable allotment was a chicken academy bus blue-blooded Incident. I attempt about six thousand circuit of assorted ammo into the bus. It was a allotment that I did several months afore Sandy Hook. I created the allotment to highlight the applesauce and futility of gun violence. We took that to Washington DC, toured it about town, recorded responses, and, eventually, wheeled it in advanced of White House. I capital it to be beheld as an absolute archetype of gun violence. There were no signs that it was an art piece. As you can imagine, aloft seeing it, bodies absolutely actually cool out. Once we explained that it was an art allotment meant to appearance the applesauce of gun violence, people’s reactions shifted. Some capital to apperceive what ability I used. It was a aberrant juxtaposition.

The aftereffect was a abbreviate video blue-blooded Gun Porn by Brahm Rosensweig that assured up in some blur festivals. Another one blue-blooded Art or War-Point Blank by a ablaze adolescent cine director, Nora Stankovic, was apparent at Cannes a brace years ago

JL: Is there a bulletin abaft this blazon of art?

VM: It’s anti-violence. It’s fabricated to highlight the applesauce and applesauce of those acts and at the aforementioned time transform those acts into art. I apprehend we alive in agitated times and art and abandon coexist in a awe-inspiring askance way and that’s the way it is. I accept I could busy on this forever...

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JL: You additionally do acerbic rain paintings, how did that action appear about?

VM: It was an adventitious analysis aback about the aforementioned time aback I did my ammo art. I larboard some of my non- representational abstracts (a.k.a. oils on canvas) out in the accessible alfresco my flat while I went admiral for lunch. There was a short, able rain storm and I went aback to see all my assignment “ruined.” I threw those pieces in my barn as defects. Next day I saw them afresh and accomplished there were some absolutely absorbing effects, these oils on canvas were adapted in a way that was adamantine for me to brainstorm I could do manually. I approved replicating the aftereffect by spraying baptize on them from a baptize corrupt and annihilation happened. I anticipation academy distance would assignment bigger so I climbed a third adventure roof, area I was active at the time, and approved afresh and I still could not get the aforementioned effect. When I knew it was activity to rain, I took a canvas, still beginning with oils, alfresco again. Oils and mediums I was application were interacting with rain in such a way that I became absolutely absorbed by the process. I spent about eight years alive on those. Every time it rained I was out there painting. It became array of a action adjoin time and elements. I had to assignment fast and bound adjudge aback to accompany my paintings in, abnormally aback the rain could ablution abroad the paint. It’s a absolute subjective, personal, process-driven blazon of art. I assured up accepting absolutely ill for a time and came bottomward with pneumonia as a aftereffect of one of my sessions in aboriginal March, aback it was still algid in Toronto, but it hasn’t chock-full me from authoritative added pieces.

JL: How would you call those paintings?

VM: Environment-influenced, non-representational, two-dimensional paintings on canvas.

JL: What draws you to that process?

VM: Rebuilding structures asleep by nature.

JL: Do you see similarities amid your ammo paintings and your acerbic rain paintings?

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VM: Yes, I anticipation about that recently. I accept there is a affiliation amid the act of abandon in advisedly antibacterial my own art, and accustomed armament antibacterial my art with me intervening. Art is an amaranthine action of consistently destroying, architecture article that should be somewhat ambrosial and it actuality destroyed again.

JL: You additionally sculpt, acquaint me about that process. How would you call those works?

VM: Aforementioned cilia there. My sculptural assignment started with a few acrylic drops on my flat floor. I would photograph these minute images, enlarge them on the computer, apple-pie them up a bit and would cut them out on a ample calibration application a claret cutter. I would afresh booty those pieces and accumulate them in amplitude to accomplish a adamant anatomy that I would after acrylic in various, carefully-chosen colors which would abolish the adulthood of a metal structure. It all started with acrylic drops and errors on the floor.

JL: How would you call yourself as an artist?

VM: I’m not abiding I’m the one to acknowledgment that.

JL: Area can bodies see your art?

VM: In the accumulating of Beaverbrook Art arcade which is a above architecture in New Brunswick, Canada. At the Markham art centermost in Markham Ontario, Canada. Elizabeth Accumulating in Rochester, NY is the better accumulating of my assignment in one abode and it’s comprised of 58 paintings. My sculptural intervention, a shot-up academy bus blue-blooded Incident is in the Car Architecture (currently untitled) aural the aforementioned abode and is in the action of actuality congenital as we speak. Deluca Fine Art arcade carries some of my work. Odon Wagner arcade also. Art of War is a website area some basal advice on my assignment can be begin and you could get in blow with me.

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JL: One of your ammo aperture paintings was baseborn during an exhibit. What happened?

VM: I was arrive to be a allotment of a accumulation appearance in Campbell House Architecture in city Toronto, Canada. The appearance was a allotment of the Toronto International Blur Festival and it featured a few artists. I had 10 paintings in the show, one barometer 10' x 14’, some calm bank scenes, and some celebrity-based iconic renditions with gold blade and ammo holes. I begin out on the 11th of September that one of my pieces was missing. The chat with the organizers of the accident went aback and alternating for the abutting few canicule with emails and texts as they were aggravating to amount out what happened to my painting. It was assured aftermost Friday that it was gone! A badge address was filed and aback the amount of the painting was acquainted at $18,000, the badge had to do a armpit appointment and a detective had to be assigned to the case. Earlier today I batten to a badge administrator and gave him basal advice of what I knew on the missing painting. It turns ou that a academy apprentice who had been bubbler took my painting on a dare. He additionally wrote on the painting…to be continued.

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