Rajko Apollonio is back creating paintings which, in many ways, are reminiscent of his artistic work when he just started out in the mid-1980s, especially the period 1985–1987, and some of the works and cycles he produced after 2000. Landscapes veiled in semi-darkness have always been a typical feature. His earlier paintings, however, showed a hint of blue in the background, only to reveal a fragment of a distant darker shade of the sky.

This time around the first cycle displayed in Bežigrad Gallery 1, called "Be the Knife for Me", female and male bodies are presented, which vanish and melt into endless blue hues. Seawater of all shades and hues covers the human bodies as they move and live within it ("I Comprehend with my Body" cycle). The former cycle is devoid of human bodies. There are also no sharp lines between the blue surface and the human body. The blue from the apparent undersurface melts into and appears to veil, hide and replace certain parts of the bodies.
Miloš Bašin

Rajko Apollonio was born on 26 August 1957 in Koper. He studied from Accademia di Belle arti in Florence and Venice in years 1976−1981. He lives in Koper.