Vladimir Rabat Rovnjev – sculptor, painter, graphic artist, songwriter, composer, poet and designer. Last few decades spiritual realities seeker. His father, Stevan, was a professor of physical education and his mother, Olga, also. Their family Rovnjev as a distinguished Russian nobility, gifted artistically, came to this area in 1920.
Elementary school, high school and Teachers’ college-department of arts, he graduated in Novi Sad. Until 1976, he practised tutorship, especially in education of arts.
Since 1979, he has been experimenting in the fields of sculptures, poetry, music and in development of spiritual energy. He releases LP album in 1979, RTV production, on the subject of ecology. He creates acoustic sculptures, he is one of the pioneers in the world, and since 1980 he has been performing on them, he plays concerts, makes exibitions, creates music for radio, television, theatre and film. All this is possible thanks to him knowing and using 16 different crafts, so he is able to connect his ideas as a sculptor and a musician who transforms that idea into a multimedial concept.
The author is also a participant of numerous exibitions, as his own or as a group, concerts in homeland and abroad and he was a guest in hundreds of TV and radio shows and gave many interviews.
One of his remarkable works he united when created the symbol of Yugoslav military and special forces SDB. The latest multimedial design ‘OMFAL’ and ‘SVAR’, created in 1996, an authentic design as such in the world, represent acoustic, energetic and visual structures and shapes, whose impact activate sensitive and overwhelming perception.
This form of creations leads a man into altered state of mind and graphic and spacious form permanently transforms and keeps in parallel dimension which we ‘SEE’ by perception which is all sensitive. He is a member of The Association of fine arts of Vojvodina, The Artists of Vojvodina, The Association of fine and applied arts of Vojvodina and The Association of Performing Artists. He is also in an international directory of significant persons.
He lives and works in Popovica and Petrovaradin fortress on Fruska Gora.

Some pieces of art often inspire us to imagine and create an imaginary impression of our world. There are just few pieces that evoke every sense, of hearing and seeing and overwhelming spiritual sense like Acoustic sculptures of Vladimir Labat do. Vladimir Labat Rovnjev – a sculptor, painter, graphic artist, songwriter, composer, poet and designer, over decades creates and plays on unique acoustic sculptures. These sculptures lead us into a world, unfamiliar to us, a world we wish to reveal. And we should indulge. Music experts did this: they weren’t ashamed of abandoning academic knowledge and embracing this, bold and charming challenge of curiosity.

It is quite risky to define a work of creativity which breaks down the barriers among certain arts and combines them into a new creation.

We are due to understand him and then accept it or not. It was the only motif why Labat entered into a risk of unknown sounds working on his sculptures all those years. In 1979, he began a hard work on ‘capturing’ those metal sounds and their ‘channeling’, even controlling them. Labat’s previous musical experience  regarding this search was endless, it guaranteed certain motivation, perseverance and faith. Act of creation is a desire and a need that only predict the discovery and then others called it a success.

‘Playing on sculptures’ is likely a simplified contradiction. Maybe the thing is the other way round, it might be said that instruments are original sculptures. Whatever to decide, the truth is common: well known compositions played on these acoustic sculptures become almost new ones. And what about improvisations an possibilities of creating new musical pieces? As far as we know, the horizon is open. Are these instruments, therefore, already known?

Now you can assume what kind of objects are these you’re standing in front of, but still don’t know what they can do. That is the essence of Labat’s invention: to unite space and sound but do not know its size and what it is like. Watching and listening, but not seeing the end of it. Understanding and enjoying, but still wondering. Wondering is also an act of creation – not a reflection of spectator’s liberation of viewer’s responsibility.