Life surrounded by inspired kitsch by Gordana Vasiljević - Danas / 23. February 2ooo Herman Broch, one of the most intuitive and original theorists of kitsch, said that there is bad, good and inspired kitsch.. Of course kitsch in its most inspired form represents an art tautology. That is why I am not going to write about the art of kitsch, but about a certain standpoint in life: The creation and the existence of kitsch wouldn't even be possible without a "kitsch-man", who, in every segment of life, and even in life itself - that is death - is searching for and finding a betrayal of reality, authenticity and originality. With his first solo exhibition Dejan Kaludjerović /1972/, a senior student at the Belgrade Academy of Fine Art in the class of professor Čedomir Vasić (previously a student of the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Belgrade Faculty for Applied Arts), states his position on the totality of the tragedy in which we have been living for more than 10 years. At the same time he is not judging, but merely stating facts we are all aware of, using the poetics of kitsch.
	Dejan didn't choose kitsch to be funny or mocking, but to point out that all of this could have happened only to "kitsch-men" and that kitsch-man, whose reality has been betrayed the most, doesn't know what to do with his betrayed life, and doesn't know where he went wrong. He used to live so nicely tucked on his little house, with a retouched wedding picture hung above his bed - "Building of a Temple" - He used to dress up his children in white shirts and blue skirts for Tito's birthday celebration, with pioneer's neckerchiefs and caps - "Pioneers" - and he didn't even notice when "Three Little Pigs” decided that he was not supposed to live like this and that the best thing for him would be to put on a uniform and run across the maps - "The Boy" - even if it means inviting death into his home. Dejan Kaludjerović told us this terrifying story using the language of a great drawer and a mature painter, who mastered his craft. As a thinking man he states his own sensibility, the language of a painter. Who knows, maybe Dejan will, in a critical sense, follow the footsteps of Mica Popović.