САЛОН 77
"Word and/or Image, Ethics and/or Aesthetics" by Irena Vuković
"Word and (or) Image, Ethics and (l) Aesthetics" by Irena Vuković - an artist from Podgorica. The exhibition consists of digital drawings printed on canvas, realized in the last five years.
Irena Vuković was born in 1975 in Titograd. She graduated from the Department of Graphic Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, in the class of Professor Mile Grozdanić. She received her master's degree in 2020 from the same faculty with the thesis "Graphic Design of the Edition or the Artistic Autonomy of the Book". Since 2014, she has been working as a professor at the Secondary Art School "Petar Lubarda" in Cetinje. She has exhibited solo in Podgorica, Tivat, Herceg Novi, Pančevo, Vranje, Belgrade, Bijelo Polje. She has participated in numerous collective exhibitions, art and creative workshops in the country and abroad. She has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Montenegro since 2005. She won the "Good Design" award at the Novi Sad Book Salon (2008) for the graphic design of the "Nobel Prize" edition.
With an interdisciplinary approach, combining the experience of graphic design with painting and drawing, and applying modern technology in its implementation, Irena Vuković develops an indigenous opus based on original visual art and visuality that synthesizes text and image.
Personally, active reflection on contemporary social relations and circumstances opens up a wide range of psychological, ethical, and ultimately existential themes for Irena Vuković, which the artist interprets with a pronounced dose of humor, often with a bitter undertone. Supporting the form of comics, Irena mainly defines scenes in the form of dialogues between figures, often presented on a geometric background that is reminiscent of pixels of electronic images or graphics of old video games. Her figures are expressively caricatured in character with intense yet harmonious colors, and the texts they "pronounce" are either witty wordplay or verses whose form refers to traditional folk literature, while the content reflects contemporary vocabulary and situations.
Irena Vuković is the author of a special mental and emotional code and clear perceptions of the circumstances of her own time. Her works, as inspired visual testimonies of the "new normality" we live in and current models of behavior, provoke reflection on the perspective of living in conditions of shaken humanistic principles.
The exhibition will run until June 23.
"Center" by Andrea Moračan
Andrea Moračanin
"Center"
Lithographs and Projections
Salon 77, May 8 -June 1, 2025
On Thursday at 7 p.m., Salon 77 in Tvrđava will open an exhibition of lithographs and photo-projections by the younger generation artist Adrea Moračanin. The exhibition titled "Center" is the artist's first solo exhibition in Niš, and the gallery in the former Bali-beg mosque is a perfect fit for her recent artistic work. Namely, with a simple and precise system of straight, bright lines on a deep black surface, Andrea Moračanin defines the views of the interior of a residential building. Even if we don't know it, and this is her own childhood home, the development of the themes of temporality, eternity, or death, as Dr. Mina Rakidžić Dostanić notes, is clear. Therefore, the display of this graphic entity (and its extensions) in the space of a former religious building encourages the loading of a new value into the artist's work, which is the view of the home as a sanctuary.
Andrea Moračanin (Kraljevo, 1995) completed her undergraduate (2018) and master's (2019) studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, at the Department of Painting in the class of Prof. Dobrica Bisenić. She is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at the Department of Graphic Arts, FLU, under the mentorship of Prof. Vladimir Milanović. During her studies, she was a recipient of a scholarship from the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and during her doctoral studies, a scholarship holder from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, where she was engaged as a student-researcher at the Department of Graphic Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade.
She has participated in over twenty group exhibitions in the country and abroad (Belgium, South Korea, Poland, Romania). In 2022, she stayed at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, as part of the "Start In Gdansk" project, where she completed a lithography course. In 2024, as part of the Erasmus+ project, she spent two months on a professional internship in Paris, as a printing assistant at the Michael Woolworth Atelier. She holds an art therapy certificate as part of the "Mad Balkans - transforming psychiatry through art" project organized by the Prostor Association from Belgrade and Oslo Metropolitan University.
Mila Guardiola ''INTERACTIONS''
On Tuesday, April 15, starting at 7 p.m., Salon 77 will host the opening of a solo exhibition by Mila Gvardiol, an artist from Belgrade. The exhibition features paintings from her latest production, which belong to the "Interactions" cycle.
Mila Gvardiol (Belgrade, 1979) graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts (2004) and received her doctorate from the Interdisciplinary Studies Department of the University of Arts in Belgrade (2012). She is an associate professor and dean at the Faculty of Digital Production in Sremska Kamenica. She taught at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade from 2015 to 2023. She has held more than 40 solo exhibitions in many cities in Serbia and Croatia. She has exhibited at over 200 collective exhibitions in the country and abroad. She has won 15 awards, including the ULUPUDS Annual Award (2018).
The thoughtful and intellectualized transformation of the scene from the macrocosm into the language of geometric forms and lines with a sensitive coloristic choice is the basis of Mila Guardiola's painting manuscript, while the original motif inspiration is recognized in the architecture of urban environments. The artist sublimates fragments of architecture to the level of basic geometric bodies and forms, neglecting the primary function of architecture and creating works that are abstract in terms of visuality and semantic ambiguity with emotional, psychological, or existential connotations.
Mila Guardiola's latest paintings from the "Interactions" series are dominated by massive cubes that resemble apartment buildings, but they are offset from their axis, slanted, disturbingly tilted, prone to falling. The artist mainly presents them from a lower angle, so that their tops are concentrated around a central whiteness as a light source, or the light source is displaced outside the canvas and illuminates the scene in the form of a prismatic beam. By varying the compositional approach, the way of treating light, and the color scheme (from darker, monochrome to lighter pastel), the artist artistically defines different states of interaction, which results in a variety of general impressions that range from the extreme drama of a high energy charge to the tranquility of the coexistence of subdued energy.
The exhibition of Mila Guardiola in Niš will last until May 6th.
SELMA ĐULIZAREVIĆ EXHIBITION
SELMA ĐULIZAREVIĆ EXHIBITION
Selma Đulezarević – Karanović was born in Sarajevo in 1967. She studied at the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. She graduated from the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, in the class of Professor Milica Stevanović. She also completed her postgraduate studies at the same faculty in 1997. She earned a Doctor of Arts degree in painting under the mentorship of Professor Anđelka Bojović in 2012. She has been a member of ULUS since 1995. She currently works at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade as a full professor. She has had 34 solo exhibitions in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Belgium. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in the country and abroad. Her works are in the collection of the Belgrade City Museum, the Nadežda Petrović Gallery in Čačak, the Contemporary Gallery in Subotica and the Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo.
In 2010, Selma Đulezarević Karanović participated in the Symposium of the International Organisation of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians in Istanbul, entitled Cultural Exchange Between East and West: Kaftan and Its Influence in Fashion. In the same year, she became a member of this organisation. The thematic framework of this symposium had a stimulating influence on her artistic work. Although she is a painter by vocation, she began researching the kaftan, a traditional shirt of the peoples and nationalities from the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Since the author herself comes from Bosnia and Herzegovina, more precisely from Sarajevo, she places emphasis on the urban costume, noticing various depictions and ornaments on the shirts of women of Jewish, Muslim and Christian faiths. One thing was common to all of them, and that was the beauty in the execution of various embroideries and weavings, as well as the dominant floral motif (rose, jasmine, tulip, lily of the valley,..). The importance of folk handicrafts, the richness of weaving in cotton, hemp and silk as well as embroidered decorations on clothing items, shirts, dresses, towels are sublimated in the new opus of Selma Đulezarević Karanović. Following the basic formal principles and patterns in the original embroidery, the artist paints and draws with textile paint floral decorations, song lyrics and messages. Collages made by combining different pieces of textiles have a special charm. This encounter of antiquity with objects of modern clothing creates new horizons not only of the aesthetic but also of the mental concept of a personal nature. The artist uses the white shirt from the folk costume as a metaphor for the permanent and the imperishable, as a symbol of the unbreakable bond of every woman with her mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, generations ago. As the artist herself says, with these works she makes a special kind of gratitude to our ancestors from whom we inherited a sense of beauty. We can freely say that our grandmothers turned manual labor from an everyday necessity into an individual pleasure and a means of expression. Women in domestic conditions, excluded from any socio-political influence and public life of that time, through this type of activity become the forerunners of today's emancipated women. Through various status or romantic messages ("Beauty is within us", "Housewives, talk less so your lunch doesn't burn", "Dew fell on the meadow, I gave my beloved my hand"...) Selma parries the traditional and contemporary position of a business woman, exposed to new global challenges. She has written the verses of Vera Nedić on her wedding towels, her shirts are called "Covid Depression", and her corsets are written with the names of antidepressants. Dresses, collages and other objects make the ambient installation entitled "Heritage-Burden" complex and multi-layered. Going through each segment of the aforementioned works, the artist gives us the opportunity to experience the past and heritage through the prism of the aesthetic, philosophical, material and immaterial segments of our individual and collective heritage, questioning our willingness to accept its weight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_uPe1z9XnA
''Ослобађање'' Маше Пауновић
Као скулптор који улази у сам срж материјала било да је у питању дрво, камен или метал са великом пажњом се посвећује динамичном обликовању заробљених емоција.
Свака од њених скулптура егзистира као аутентичан, живи организам који се налази у стању преобликовања или трансформације тежећи да се повеже са простором, док истовремено емитује јединствен облик енергије.
Артикулишући нове енергетске вредности не само да успоставља везу са посматрачем него и генерише нове просторно визуелне садржаје проблематизујући актуелне теме савременог друштва.
Излаже на колективним изложбама од 2002. године и учествовала је на преко 100 колективних изложби у земљи и иностранству а такође је имала до сада 8 самосталних изложби:
Sofia Vojinović "Daydreams"
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, Department of Painting. She is a member of ULUS.
She has participated in several group exhibitions and has realized four solo exhibitions in Užice, Belgrade, Čačak and Kragujevac. Since 2018, she has been starting her exhibition career with drawings in which she explores the shadow. This project has resulted in the cycles Presupposition, Home in the Home, Shadows of Home and the latest Dreaming.
The shadow in Jung's psychology of personality has a deep meaning and the term shadow refers to a part of identity that the conscious self does not understand or accept. Psychic traits that the human ego does not recognize as its own are instead repressed into the unconscious, where an inferior, dark part of the personality called the shadow is formed. What is 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 children's stories, let's remember Peter Pan, the eternal boy who chases his mischievous shadow. The shadow can appear in visions, memories and dreams. That is why the artist turned her shadows into memories that, although faded, have 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 the wind blows, patterns are created on the wall, outlines of silhouettes, geometric and amorphous forms like the shadows of a home. This interweaving represents the memory 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 Daydreaming builds on previous cycles, shadows revive memories, and 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 arise from daydreaming. They have the power to materialize their daydreaming and transform it into a painting, music, or song.
Shadows on walls, drawings, and canvases by Sofija Vojinović represent geometric compositions with a pronounced perspective, painted in gray layers of transparent paint with visible overlapping of crossed lines and surfaces. Discreetly presented combinations of vertical and horizontal surfaces, bordered by a shadow through which light passes, create a certain contrast that is very important in fine art. This 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 whether visualization is the only important thing or the artist is just playing around in order to draw our attention to listening to our Self a little better, and accepting it as it is without any restraints or complexes.
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JELENA JOCIC EXHIBITION: "PROSTIRANJA"
"SALON 77" /July 16 - August 7/
She was born in Belgrade in 1970. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1997, at the Department of Graphics, received her master's degree in 2000, and received her doctorate and 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 a recipient of a scholarship from the Republic Foundation for the Development of Scientific and Artistic Youth of Serbia. In the period from 1998 to 2002, as part of a project for talented individuals, she worked at the Department of Graphics at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade.
Since 2003, she has been working as a professor of professional studies at the Academy of Professional Studies Polytechnic, at the Department of Design. So far, she has had several solo exhibitions and over two hundred group exhibitions in the country and abroad. She has exhibited in New York, Paris, Luxembourg, Liege, Quebec, Thessaloniki, São Paulo, Seoul, Madrid, Budapest, Istanbul, Stockholm, Skopje and at many international graphic arts biennials and triennials. 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 significant awards in the field of graphics are:
The Graphic Collective Mali Pechat Award in 2010 and the Veliki Pechat Award in 2021. The work "Bridges" is in the collection of the Belgrade City Museum. Her works are included in the Purchase of Works of Art of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia (2005, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018). She has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS) since 1998, and on the board of directors of ULUS from 2022-2023. She has been a member of the Artistic Council and the board of directors of the Grafički kolektiv Gallery in Belgrade since 2011. She was elected as the president of the board of directors of the GK at the GK assembly held on 06.07.2023.
Jelena Jocić continues her artistic research, relating to the existing interiors of large industrial centers, finding in them the idea for defining an ideal space. By merging the visual and the perceptual into one whole, he develops a unique artistic language in whose context visions of an ideal space can be glimpsed. Through his own photographic observation, he singles out the dominant motif of empty, devastated industrial complexes, approaching the framing process that hints at transience, alienation and loneliness. Continuing the process of creation, in addition to nurturing visual relationships, the network of crossed lines and collage pop art pieces also includes a certain number of artifacts.
Through the play of light and geometric surfaces, as well as the assembly procedures used by constructivist artists, he explores the boundaries of personal and private space.
The architectural specificity of the interior, which associates with metal structures, served as a metaphor for the boundary that separates the artist from the existing environment, entering new timeless dimensions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb39KY7LJdE
Унутрашње чуло
Изложба фотографија „Унутрашње чуло“ Паулине Алексић и Саре Поповић.
Изложбу „Унутрашње чуло“ претежно чине интерпретације предела у техници црно-беле фотографије. Два битно различита ауторска рукописа Паулине Алексић и Саре Поповић понудиће публици две позиције мишљења медија и дела.
Уметнички сензибилно и мотивски радознало Паулина Алексић прецизно организује кадар. Специфични и призори свакодневице предмет су избалансираних закључака, слутњи и питања. Професор Миљан Недељковић примећује како се овим радовима залази у колективно сећање, што публика интуитивно препознаваје.
Највећи број фотографија Саре Поповић снимљен је из „из руке“ и у покрету. Првом линијом истраживања Сара манипулише маглинама, блуром и светлошћу, док је такође завидна група радова наглашеног графизма. Потпуним пренебрегавањем фактографског својства фотографског медија, уметница се приближава исказу својственом традиционалним ликовним врстама или и, са друге стране, естетици новоталасног филма.
Миљан Недељковић закључује да „Радови две младе ауторке сугеришу повратак идеји да је живот непрестано кретање и збир проживљеног, који као такви и умножени искуствима генерација, граде мозаик историје и будућности“.
Паулина Алексић (Зајечар, 1999) дипломирала је 2021. године на Факултету уметности у Нишу на департману за примењене уметности, одсек графички дизајн, а мастер студије завршила је 2022. на Факултету примењених уметности у Београду на одсеку за фотографију. Учествовала је на бројним изложбама организованим од стране уметничке студентске групе „ПЕТА 128” и излагала своје радове у оквиру различитих фестивала и манифестација.
Сара Поповић (Ниш, 1997) завршила је основне и мастер студије 2022. године на Факултету уметности у Нишу, департман за примењене уметности, одсек графички дизајн. Током студија учествује на колективним изложбама из области графичког дизајна и фотографије у земљи и иностранству, као и на изложбама које организује са независном уметничком групом „ПЕТА 128”. Од 2019. године као фотограф активно волонтира на интернационалном џез фестивалу „Нишвил”. Огранак САНУ Ниш 2022. године објављује видео рад и мултимедију под називом „Сведочење о човечности” (П. Донков, М. Недељковић, С. Поповић).
Прва заједничка изложба Паулине Алексић и Саре Поповић „Унутрашње чуло” реализована је 2023. године у Галерији „Чедомир Крстић“ у Пироту, Радул-беговом конаку у Зајечару, Музеју Хајдук Вељка у Неготину и Галерији Народног музеја у Врању.
Изложбу „Унутрашње чуло“ публика може посетит до 9. јула.
Џеф Сипел и Небојша Лазић „Место сусрета“
Позивамо вас на отварање изложбе графика Џефа Сипела (Jeff Sippel) и Небојше Лазића под називом „Место сусрета“
уторак, 4. јуна 2024. године у 19 сати
Салон 77
Џеф Сипел и Небојша Лазић су дугогодишњи пријатељи и колеге који већ више од тридесет година негују пријатељство и уметничку сарадњу започету давних деведесетих година у Тамаринд Институту у Новом Мексику у Сједињеним Америчким Државама.Сарадња се свих протеклих година одржавала, дружењем, разменом идеја у области ликовне графике, заједничким радом два уметника са различитих континената. Овом изложбом под називом „Место сусретања“ настављена је у Србији, најпре у Малом ликовном салону у Новом Саду , затим доласком у Графичку радионицу Сићево и на крају овом изложбом у Салону 77.
Џефри Сипел (Jeff Sippel) је интернационални уметник и амерички графичар. Дипломирао је на Универзитету (University of Wiskonsin-Eau Claire) 1976. године и студирао на Тамаринд Институту од 1977. до 1979. године. По завршетку студија на Тамаринд институту добио је сертификат за мајстора штампара. Касније и МФА на Државном институту у Аризони. Сипел је предавао у Druchaus EA Kuensen, радио је и као главни штампар у Ocean Vorks LEL и предавао на државном Универзитету Охајо. Сипел тренутно предаје на Универзитету у Мисурију, Сент Луис. Специјализирао се за литографију без воде, његов рад је укључен у многе реномиране колекције, укључујући Симинсонијан институт. Осим тога, Сипелова многа излагања укључују предавања у Совјетком Савезу, Финској, Јужној Африци, Чилеу, Белгији, Пољској, Немачкој, Бугарској, Мексику, Канади и другим местима у Сједињеним Америчким Државама. Сипел је излагао своје радове на преко 200 изложби по читавој Америци и свету.
Он користи цветне мотиве, апстракујући их по облику и форми. Ради на папиру, милару или платну комбинујући много различитих слојева графичарских техника да би постигао жељене ефекте. Своја визуелна истраживања сматра суштинском инспирацијом у раду са студентима, сарадњи са колегама и у свом личном раду. Пре свега као штампар,користи апликације, клишее за штампање, комбинујући различите слојеве који често одступају од првобитне намере.Фундаментални елементи доприносе не само визуелном већ и аналитичком аспекту и емоционалном одговору.
Небојша Лазић је дипломирао (1992), магистрирао (1996) и докторирао (2015) на графичком одсеку Факултета ликовних уметности у Београду. На двогодишњим специјалистичким студијама на Тамаринд институту за литографију у Новом Мексику, САД, стекао је звање сарадничког штампара за графику. Добитник је неколико награда, стипендија и признања за допринос у ликовној и графичкој уметности у земљи и иностранству. До сада је приредио двадесетри самосталне и девет ауторских изложби у земљи и иностранству. Редовни је члан УЛУСа од 1993.Током деценије боравка у Њујорку (1995-2006) Лазић је основао професионални литографски студио у коме је као сараднички штампар сарађивао са Rutgers Универзитетом у Њу Џерсију, уметничким студијом Доналд Бечлер, Стефан Дин, Ана Де ла Порте, Реј Смит, Сенклер Семин... У професионалном графичком студију Lower East Side је демонстрирао литографске технике. Од 2014. године ради на Академији уметности у Новом Саду као стручни сарадник на предмету цртања, а од 2007. до 2014. радио је у истом звању на Факултету ликовних уметности у Београду. Тренутно има звање доцента на катедри за цртање на Факултету уметности у Новом Саду и на катедри за графику на Академији класичног сликарства при Универзитету ЕДУКОНС у Сремској Каменици. Лазић је оснивач Центра за графику у Новом Саду 2008. где је кроз низ пројеката у сарадњи са домаћим и страним уметницима организовао многе ауторске изложбе у Новом Саду, Пиму, Њујорку и Минхену. Учесник је бројних стручних симпозијума у земљи и иностранству. Када је реч о његовом стваралаштву, он је своја визуелна истраживања у области литографије пренео на сликарство. Апстрактну слику гради у слојевима, просипањем боје на платно, уз експресивне гестове. Свесно ствара ситуације хаоса где „слика саму себе слика“организујући постигнуту случајност у ликовну целину.
Теодора Војиновић "Микрокосмос"
Теодора Војиновић
Микрокосмос
Скулптуре и инсталације
Салон 77, 14. мај – 2. јун 2024
Микрокосмос - свет у малом, један мали дао света који се донекле може посматрати као засебан свет, а од негде као умањена слика великог света или макрокосмоса, света увеликоме. Скулпторску лексику Теодоре Војиновић одликује свођење, с једне стране минимизирање сретстава и односа, а са друге стране монументална архитектоника у галеријском формату. Такође, њен микронаратив је до те мере ненаметљив да делима отворено подстиче индивидуални доживљај. Она се суптилно исказује и она суптилно побуђује загледаност и промишљање света. Изложбу „Микрокосмос“ у Салону 77 чине циклуски скултура „Месеци“ и инталација „Цвеће“, затим инсталације „Рефлексије” и „Киша”. Заједно узевши овим радовима се у формалном смислу парирају форме природног и вештачког окружења, а њихово сучељавање има за циљ изузетост појава из примарног контекста и његову ревалоризацију.
Теодора ВОЈИНОВИЋ (Чачак, 1993) је завршила мастер академске студије на Факултету примењених уметности у Београду, на смеру примењеног вајарства (2018). Добитница је Награде „Радета Станковић” за најбоље скулпторско остварење студената Факултета примењених уметности у Београду и Награде УЛУПУДС-а. Реализовала је четири самосталне и узела учешћа на 50 групних изложби.