Artist Mladen Miljanovic Draws Inspiration from Bosnia’s Turmoil

BANJA LUKA (REUTERS).- Ethnic tension and the haunting memory of war vex Bosnia 15 years after Europe’s worst fighting since World War Two, but artist Mladen Miljanovic draws inspiration from such turmoil. Working in a wide variety of media from painting to video, sculpture and performance art, the 29-year-old Bosnian artist is attracting growing international attention with his take on the absurdities of war and Bosnia’s divide along ethnic lines. “Culture in Bosnia generally needs to play a bigger role to connect those two opposite, separate, divided sides,” he said in Banja Luka, the capital of the Bosnian Serb half of the country where he lives. “Subversive art, eclectic art, is affected by the crucial problems, so if there are more problems, you will see that there are more, and better, eclectic and subversive art.” In one 2006-2007 project, Miljanovic,

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