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Published: 10 July 2008

Punks On Bridge by Bosnian painter Ivan Mott

Mott’s twilight town goes on show for studio opening

A retrospective of work by Bosnian painter Ivan Mott is set to launch a new art venue, writes Simon Wroe

BOSNIAN artist Ivan Mott has a love/hate relationship with Camden. Its landscape and tribes frequently creep into his work – bold, lurid oil paintings awash with colour – but their presence is ambiguous.
He lives a twilight existence, chronicling the excesses of the area every day from dusk till dawn. Sinewy figures dance among the shadow and light of his paintings.
Born in 1967, Mott left the Academy of Fine Art in Sarajevo in 1991, just before war broke out. Since then, the Canary Islands and the UK have been his homes.
A retrospective of his work through the past decade, along with new and unseen pieces, will launch the Camden Lock Art Studio, a new underground venue opposite the Stables Market.
And, since this wouldn’t be a Camden art exhibition without the odd nod to rock’n’roll, his alternative portraits of Hendrix and Winehouse will be on show.

*Ivan Mott: A Retrospective is at the Camden Lock Art Studio until September 30. Entry is free but will require an appointment after Sunday, July 14.

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