The Robert Koch Gallery is pleased to present an online preview of Ljubodrag Andric's latest series INDIA  expanding on the artist's ongoing exploration of minimalist and  texturally amplified photographic architectural abstractions. Andric's  masterful sense of place and light, gives breath to works precise in  their reductive compositions and lushness of detail. By providing  universally recognizable entry points to the work such as walls, steps,  windows, and other facades, and reducing the image to its essence,  Andric invites the viewer to interpret the work on a metaphoric and  deeply personal level. Discussing the meditative overlay of Andric's  work, writer Mona Zaidi poignantly  writes, "The effect of standing before the images immediately brings to  mind the Bodhidharma. According to legend, the revered 6th century  Indian sage sat in silent meditation before a wall for nine years. For  nine years, so it is said, his eyes remained open, gaze fixed upon that  wall. . . . All that remained was he, the great stillness of that empty  expanse, and, at some measured distance, a wall."

For  thirty plus years, Ljubodrag Andric's work has revolved around  recontextualizing the urban landscape. Andric who is of Yugoslavian  decent, was born in Belgrade, in 1965 to a family of artists – his  mother an actress, his father a writer, and his brother a  painter. In 1981, at the age of sixteen, photography become his main  focus. In 1988, while studying literature in Belgrade, Andric first  exhibited at the Modern Art Gallery in Belgrade. The work included in  the exhibition addressed the relationship between space and  architecture, which has remained at the core of Andric's visual  exploration. In 2002 Andric relocated to Toronto where he currently  lives and works, and in 2005 re-nationalized as a Canadian citizen.  Ljubodrag Andric's work was exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Le  Locle, Switzerland (2017), the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice  (2016), and the Triennale di Milano (2016). In 2016 Skira published Ljubodrag Andric: Works 2008-2016.