Radenko Milak: Four Seasons Interrupted
Opening Night: November 8th, 6-8pm
San Diego, California — Madison Gallery is proud to announce FOUR SEASONS INTERRUPTED – Bosnian artist, Radenko Milak’s second solo exhibition with Madison Gallery - as he delves into the profound and disorienting impact of climate change on the four seasons. Known for his hauntingly precise monochromatic watercolors, Milak turns his focus to the natural rhythms that once governed our understanding of time. This new series of 16-18 paintings, captures the unsettling fragmentation of seasonal cycles, portraying moments when winter lingers into spring or summer bleeds unpredictably into fall - highlighting the instability and anxiety that now define our environmental experience.
Set against the backdrop of New York City, Milak’s work offers a visual narrative of how urban life intersects with—and is increasingly shaped by - climate disruption. Iconic landmarks and everyday street scenes are rendered with a spectral clarity, cloaked in fog, snow, or an eerie, out-of-season sunlight. His imagery reflects not only the city's vulnerability to environmental shifts but also its paradoxical resilience. The familiar becomes uncanny: cherry blossoms bloom in February, summer heatwaves arrive in April, and snow falls in October - each piece a meditation on how time and memory fracture in a warming world.
Through this exhibition, Milak confronts viewers with the emotional and psychological toll of climate uncertainty. By documenting the seasons' intrusion upon one another, he challenges our assumptions about permanence, rhythm, and the passage of time. This body of work serves as both an elegy and a warning—capturing a moment of transition, not only in nature but in human perception. This body of work invites reflection on what it means to live in a world where seasonal order is no longer a given, and where the climate crisis renders the familiar increasingly unrecognizable.
Radenko Milak was born in 1980 in Travnik, former Yugoslavia, and now lives and works in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He graduated from the Art Academy of the University of Banja Luka in 2003 and later from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Art in Belgrade in 2007. Over his career, Milak has held more than 20 solo exhibitions across France, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, and Colombia and has participated in prominent events such as the 57th Venice Biennale, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Mumbai, and Bienalsur in Buenos Aires. His work is part of the collections of the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria; Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany; Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany and Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Sarajevo among others.
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