Pero Jelisić - Portfolio

Portfolio

Through my sculptures, I wanted to show that figurative art still has so much more to offer. My intention was to create something truly distinctive — something recognizable, personal, and unseen before. I wanted my sculptures to be uniquely mine: shaped in broad forms, free of details. To fully experience them, they should be viewed from a certain distance — the way I view them myself — because only then do they appear monumental, regardless of their actual size. That sense of monumentality was my intention from the very beginning. All of my sculptures are a dialogue with my life’s inspiration.

Tesla

Through a quiet yet powerful dialogue with Tesla’s image and legacy, Pero Jelisić creates works that unite tradition and modern expression, revealing Tesla as a timeless continuum of youth, maturity, and old age.

Drops

The drop is a symbol of creation. A symbol of disappearance. And a symbol of new birth. For me it is joy and sadness. An inspiration that lasts. And gives me new strength. I love her because part of me, a part of us. Part of the universe. She is life that lasts.

TEAR DROP

1975. | Polished Bronze | 12x10x23 cm

DROP – GENESIS

1980. | Painted Ceramic | 50 cm

JELISIĆ’s DROPS

1982. | Combined material – Patinated | 80x8x80 cm

THE MOON

1996. | Polished Bronze | 90x15x90 cm

THE SUN

1996. | Polished Bronze | 90x15x90 cm

3 ELONGATED DROPS ON THE BARS 1

2005. | Polished Aluminium | 22x22x77 cm

3 DANCERS

2010. | Polished Aluminium | 24x8x40 cm

2 DROPS IN FLIGHT ON THE LONG BARS 3

2003.-2005. | Polished Aluminium | 20x20x69 cm

SEATED VENUS

2003.-2005. | Acrylic | 27x22x57 cm

PHOENIX II

2003. | Bronze | 38x31x40 cm

Selected Works

Through simple, broad forms, I wanted to emphasize the deep, concentrated meaning and the messages these sculptures carry within them. Each person who looks at them connects with a different message — as many viewers as there are, that many messages the sculptures send out into the world — alongside all those I wove into the works myself while creating them.

POETRY DRESSED IN SILVER

1964. | Acrylic | 10x12x63 cm

MEMENTO

1967. | Bronze | 22x14x86 cm

BOSNIAN WOMAN

1980. – 1983. | Bronze | 28x32x43 cm

SEMI-SITTING ACT

1980. – 1983. | Bronze | 10x12x19 cm

SALUTATION TO THE SUN

2002. | Patinated acrylic | 20x19x57 cm

TREE OF LIFE

2008. | Bronze | 21x20x54 cm

KISS

2010. | Bronze | 10x10x33 cm

FLAME

2012. | Plaster | 37x37x66 cm

12 MOUNTAIN FARIES

1991. | Patinated Acrylic | 36 cm

MEDITATION

1991. | Patinated Acrylic | 36 cm

Monuments

All of my monuments are mementos of different stages of life and the emotions I have lived through.

STONE FLOWER IN SIŽJE, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

1980. | Marble | 200x200x200 cm

OPEN BOOK IN TUZLA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

1970. | Marble | 5x1x2 m

FLAME (AWARDED), PROPOSAL FOR A MONUMENT IN ZAVIDOVIĆI

1979.

FLAME 2

Bronze | 21x20x54 cm

FLAMING FLOWER 4 IN OLOVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

1981. | Marble | 200x200x200 cm

TEAR IN GLINA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

2012. | Polished Aluminium | 4 m

Back in 1970,

working in the studio deep into the night, with the soft music of Radio Luxemburg, I was thinking about the phenomenon of the emergence and transience of life, the unique beauty of everything that exists on our Planet and the Universe. I wanted to transpose some of that into my sculpture, without it being banal, descriptive. Thus, next to the sun and the moon, my DROP and my FLAME suddenly emerged from water and fire, almost simultaneously.

Early Works

Pero’s early work is rooted in classical sculptural discipline, where form, volume, and material are explored with restraint and precision.

These works reveal the foundations of his later artistic language, already marked by a deep sensitivity to human presence and symbolic meaning.