[2] Solo exhibitions and participations (selection): In this work, author Dušan Otašević using humorous and ironic contents and the authentic structure, demystifies the presentation of a painter-genius.
Because of that, the artist chose as the motif for his artwork the figure that gave the Gallery its name, iconographically directly taken over from Mantegna's painting (from the Louvre) showing St. Sebastian tied to a pole and dying from fatal stabs by numerous arrows.
in Old English strael, now arrow) – this fictional, quasi technical term that reminds one of a kind of a semi cold weapon, is the signpost to Otašević's relationship towards the fixed phantasms about the character of a painter and his work.
[3] The figure of St. Sebastian is not stabbed with arrows, but with thin rods representing the handles of painterly.Brushes or pencils, and each of them is painted in one of the seven colors of the natural spectrum, placed in seven pattern squares lined along the inside of the frame.
Standing on the borderline from where the belief in the “romantic stereotype of the artistic sublime being is dissolved, Otašević does not enter the field of sarcasm, nor does he push his work into a grotesque.