Lakse je kamen dicinego ime ti ponoviti (It's easier to lift a stone, than to repeat your name)

At the beginning of the 1990s Mladen Stilinovć started his 'White Works', which he continued through the war in Croatia (1991-1995). In contrast to a narrative quality, he used the white colour to express personal, lyrical, or absurd themes, but certainly also his personal shock about the brutal wars between the various ethnic groups that accompanied the dissolution of the Yugoslav Federation.
The works address issues such as poverty, pain, loneliness and the absurd. The white paint covers objects and painting surfaces, as if he wanted to protect things and remove them from everyday life. The painted and described pewter plate comes from this series, which was first exhibited under the title 'White Absence' in the Hajdarević Gallery in Požega in 1994. When asked what colour the pain has, he replied: 'White is the colour of silence, very intimate, and pain is an intimate thing.'