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"Trepča" by Ljiljana Šunjevarić
Ljiljana Šunjevarić's eyelashes.
Ljiljana Šunjevarić's latest art collection will be exhibited for the first time in Nis, in the Pavilion in the Fortress from August 22 to September 15. With these paintings, the artist remains consistent with the issues of social reality, but makes perhaps the first more extensive contribution to the understanding of living conditions in the north of Kosovo in local art. The complex of the Trepča Mining Combine, which symbolizes the failed ideas of socialist workers' progress, indirectly tells us about the policy of restoring Serbia's sovereignty over the province, from the end of the eighties and the more than excessive epilogue from the nineties of the 20th century. However, Ljiljana's paintings mostly thematize the twenty-year transitional vacuum in this territory, issues of people's lives and endless waiting. With that, the artist painted views of this complex in a hilly landscape in muted tones, a genre scene from the Trepča restaurant, and portraits of the staff and its guests. With the Trepča exhibition, Ljiljana Šunjevarić makes precise but open artistic remarks and thereby provokes a response from the public consciousness.
Ljiljana Šunjevarić was born in 1979 in Užice. She graduated, master's and doctorate in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade. He has been actively exhibiting at individual and group exhibitions in the country and abroad since 2000. She was awarded in the field of drawing. She is the author of several art projects in public space. She participated in numerous domestic and international art colonies and workshops. Her artistic works are represented in many collections: Painting Collection / Period after 1950 of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade; Contemporary art collection of Nadežda Petrović Gallery in Čačak; Collection of the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Zrenjanin; Collection of the National Museum in Arandjelovac; Collection of the National Museum in Smederevo; Collection of the Museum of the City of Belgrade; Collection of the National Museum in Kraljevo; Collection of contemporary paintings of the Gallery of Contemporary Fine Art Nis and in several private collections. She is employed at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pristina with a temporary seat in Kosovska Mitrovica, as an associate professor.
Sofija Vojinović "Dreaming"
Sofija Vojinović "Dreaming"
SALON 77
Sofija Vojinović, born in 1991 in Čačak. She completed her master's and basic academic studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, at the painting department. He is a member of ULUS.
Participated in several group exhibitions and held four solo exhibitions in Užice, Belgrade, Čačak and Kragujevac. Since 2018, he has started his exhibition career with drawings in which he explores the shadow. From this project, the cycles Predestavka, Home in the Home, Shadows of the Home and the last Dreaming followed.
The shadow in Jung's personality psychology has a deep meaning and the term shadow means a part of the identity, which the ego does not understand and does not accept. Psychic traits that the human Self does not recognize as its own, but are repressed into the unconscious, where an inferior, dark part of the personality, called the shadow, is formed. What's even more interesting is that the shadow is an inexhaustible source of creativity and often superb art. Shadows are also mentioned in fairy tales and stories for children, let's remember Peter Pan, the eternal boy who chases his mischievous shadow. The Shadow can appear in visions, memories and dreams. That's why the artist turned her shadows into memories that, although faded, remained permanently recorded in special folders and memory cards. A shadow on the wall, a shadow on the floor, a shadow from a window with outlined traces of a curtain through which, as it flutters, patterns are created on the wall, outlines of silhouettes, geometric and amorphous forms like the shadows of a home. This interweaving represents memories of childhood, events from the past, beautiful unforgettable moments experienced in youth, in life, but also repressed difficult, emotional moments that occasionally surface.
The latest cycle of Dreaming builds on previous cycles, shadows revive memories, so new fragments remain framed within the drawing, frozen in time. Daydreaming is a characteristic of artists, poets, inventors, philosophers. Many scientific achievements, imaginary landscapes of visual artists, beautiful symphonies of composers can be born from daydreaming. They have the power to materialize their dreams and turn them into a picture, music, song.
The shadows on the walls, drawings, and canvases of Sofija Vojinović represent geometric compositions with a pronounced perspective, painted in gray valer of a transparent spread with a visible overlapping of crossed lines and surfaces. Discreetly presented combinations of vertical and horizontal surfaces, bordered by a shadow through which the light passes, a certain contrast is obtained, which is very important in fine art. That contrast enhances the excitement of the composition. However, the artist places special emphasis on the shadow, which is dominant in the entire composition. Judge for yourself if only the visualization is important or if the artist is just playing around, would she not in that way draw our attention to listen to our Self a little better, and accept it as it is without any inhibitions and complexes.
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EXHIBITION OF JELENE JOCIĆ
"SALON 77" /16. July - August 7/
She was born in Belgrade in 1970. Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1997 at the Department of Graphics, received her Master's degree in 2000, received her doctorate and earned the title of Doctor of Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts within the University of Arts in Belgrade in 2017. During her undergraduate studies, she was awarded a scholarship by the Republic Foundation for the Development of Scientific and Artistic Youth of Serbia. In the period from 1998 to 2002, as part of the project for talented people, she worked at the Department of Graphics at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade.
Since 2003, he has been working as a professor of vocational studies at the Polytechnic Academy of Vocational Studies, at the Department of Design. Until now, she has had several solo exhibitions and over two hundred group exhibitions in the country and abroad. She exhibited in New York, Paris, Luxembourg, Liège, Quebec, Thessaloniki, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Madrid, Budapest, Istanbul, Stockholm, Skopje and at many international biennials and triennials of graphics. She is the winner of several awards in the field of graphic art (Petar Lubarda, Đorđe Andrejević - Kun, 8th and 9th Biennial of Yugoslav Student Graphics).
The most important awards in the field of graphics are:
The Small Seal Award of the Graphic Collective in 2010 and the Large Seal Award in 2021. The work "Bridges" is in the collection of the Museum of the City of Belgrade. Her works were included in the Acquisition of Works of Art of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia (2005, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018). He has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS) since 1998, and a member of the board of directors of ULUS since 2022-2023. year. He has been a member of the Art Council and the Board of Directors of the Graphic Collective Gallery in Belgrade since 2011. She was elected as the president of the Board of Directors of the Central Committee at the General Committee meeting held on July 6, 2023.
Jelena Jocić continues her artistic research by connecting to the found interiors of large industrial centers, finding in them the idea for defining an ideal space. Combining the visual and the perceptual into one whole, he develops a unique artistic language in the context of which visions of an ideal space can be seen. Through his own photographic observation, he singles out the dominant motif of empty, desolate industrial complexes, approaching the framing process, which hints at transience, alienation and loneliness. Continuing the process of making in addition to nurturing and visual relationships, the tangle of crossed lines and collaged pop art pieces also includes a number of artefacts.
Through the games of light and geometric surfaces as well as assembly procedures applied by constructivist artists, he explores the boundaries of personal and private space.
The architectural definiteness of the interior, which is associated with metal structures, served as a metaphor for the border that separates the artist from the found environment, entering into new timeless dimensions.
MILORAD BATA MIHAILOVIĆ - THE FIRST PARIS DECADE
Gallery of Contemporary Fine Art Nis invites you to the ceremonial opening of the exhibition of the works of the painter and academician Milorad Bata Mihailović (1923-2011) on Thursday, May 30 at 8 p.m. - Pavilion in the Fortress. The exhibition entitled The First Paris Decade of Milorad Bata Mihailović, authored by Sofija Ž. Milenković, SLU Gallery organizes in cooperation with the Rima Gallery and the Milorad Bata Mihajilović Foundation, and on the occasion of the great jubilee, the centenary of the birth of the prominent artist.
The exhibition will feature some of the most significant works of Mihailović's first decade in Paris, including newly discovered works, which will be presented to the domestic public for the first time in Niš.
Milorad Bata Mihailović was born in Pančevo in 1923. He began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1946, and after staying in Zadar and working as part of an informal group of students known as the Zadar Group, he left them two years later and continued working independently. In the very early period, the figure predominates in Mihailović's paintings, most often through the genre of portraits, self-portraits and group portraits, as well as urban landscapes, among which Belgrade views stand out. Later, staying on the coast, after leaving the Academy, under various influences the artist developed his own artistic expression, adopting a two-dimensional and modernist approach to painting.
From 1951, he was a member and founder of the group Jedenaestorica. In the same year in Belgrade, he held his first solo exhibition at the ULUS Gallery, which met with the approval of art critics, with the observation that Mihailović, although clearly talented, had not yet found his authentic artistic expression.
With his wife, the painter Ljubica Jovanović, he went to Paris in 1952, where he spent most of his life, with occasional returns to Belgrade.
Entering the new, developed art scene, in the very center of European art events, the artist encountered multifaceted currents of abstract painting that were unknown to him until then. Painting at first moderately geometrized abstract forms, Mihailović's expressive painting temperament was more suited to freer lyrical expression in Paris. He organized his first solo exhibitions as early as 1953 in the Marseille gallery and the Paul Morihien bookstore, and his notable performances led him to the acquaintance and cooperation with the distinguished gallerist Rudi Augustinčić and the Rive Gauche gallery, where he exhibited for the first time with the Polish artist Marjan in 1957, and then in 1959 with the Dutch painter Bram Bogart. Decisive for Mihailović's positioning on the local art scene was the collaboration with Jean Polak, owner of the prestigious Ariel gallery, where Mihailović has been exhibiting independently since 1960.
He stayed in New York on several occasions from 1962 until his final return to the art scene of Yugoslavia in 1965. The first retrospective exhibition in Belgrade was organized in 1981 in the Art Pavilion of Cvijeta Zuzorić.
Milorad Bata Mihailović was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. His works are represented in the collections of renowned museums and institutions, private collections, social institutions in the country and abroad.
The public in Niš will have the opportunity to visit the exhibition in the Pavilion in the Fortress until June 30.
