Composition

In the early 1993 Kalcev produced a series of paintings, entitled Composition, in oil on canvas. A central motif with characteristics of abstract landscape was chosen and set on a plain surface, partly resembling an icon. The painter used alphabetical, typographical and numerical motifs, achieving graphic effects and unique sign references to culture, serial production and mechanization. The artist engraved the imprints of his artistic imagination into the relief structure of colour, in layers and in a controlled manner. The highly cultivated building of the painting was to become the recognizable trait of his artistic approach.