GALLERY “SALON 77”
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.
Milan Kujundzic
Milan Kujundzic
objects, installations and video
Salon 77, April 11 - May 1, 2024
Expressing himself in different media (installation, object, video, drawing and sound), Milan Kujundžić deals with the relationship between the individual and the collective, i.e. questioning the position of the individual within the wider and narrower global system. He is interested in the question of man's susceptibility to living in a complex social structure, with a large number of predefined rules for living and acting. Looking for border points when the statement acquires a tone of protest and calls for resistance to the order, Kujundžić, with his recent works, reflects on the need for the liberalization of social dogmas and the re-examination of newly created imperatives. "To the fight to save humanity" the artist adds a variety of stripped-down remarks from global reality. Conducted in the spirit of rebellious art of the last century, and anticipating the current phenomena of reality, the works of this exhibition represent Kujundžić's contribution to public consciousness.
Milan Kujundžić was born in 1997 in Foča, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He completed his basic painting studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Trebinje in 2019. He won an award for painting at the same academy and was awarded a special award at the International Student Biennial in Osijek in 2021. He completed his master's studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, module New Visual Media. It exhibited at several collective exhibitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia. He exhibited independently in Foča, Trebinje, Sarajevo, Novi Sad, Belgrade and Užice. He participated in numerous colonies, festivals and art workshops in the region and abroad, some of the more important ones being the film workshop "ACTive" in Skopje and Ulcinj and the film workshop "Fighting stigma through film" in London. He is a finalist of the "Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos" award for young visual artists in Serbia in 2022.
He participated in guiding through the exhibition "EUROVISION. CROSSING STORIES AND SPACE" in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina. He is a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Vojvodina.
The public can visit the exhibition of objects, installations and video works by Milan Kujundžić until May 12 in Salon 77.
