Pavilion in Tvrđava, exhibition by Mia Arsenijević – artist from Kragujevac.
The exhibition titled In Between consists of acrylic paintings and works made in the embroidery technique.
Mia Arsenijević was born in 1985 in Kragujevac. She completed her undergraduate and master’s studies in painting at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. She received her doctorate in 2015 at the University of Arts in Belgrade. She is employed as an associate professor at the Faculty of Pedagogical Sciences in Kragujevac, teaching courses in the field of fine arts with methodology. She is also engaged at the Faculty of Arts in Niš for the course Methodology of Fine Arts Education. She is actively engaged in artistic, scientific and pedagogical work. She has exhibited her work 23 times in many cities in Serbia. She has participated in more than 50 collective exhibitions. She has won 3 awards for her artistic work. She is the author of more than 20 scientific papers in the fields of theory, art history and art pedagogy, as well as the textbook “A Brief Overview of the History of Art” intended for students of pedagogical faculties.
Encouraged by her own emotional and intellectual process, and her personal role as a mother and educator, Mia Arsenijević develops a unique artistic oeuvre, in which children are the main characters. Representing them in moments of play or various actions (skiing, walking, snowshoeing), the artist emphasizes the idea that play is for children the primary source of acquiring knowledge and experiences, establishing a relationship with reality, and not just harmless leisure, as the adult world usually perceives and interprets it. Children are generally synonymous with the primordial meaning of life and lasting values, but in Mia Arsenijević’s paintings, children are depicted in an environment that is only indicated by some detail or on a simple, often monochrome background, that is, in an undefined space. Displacing the scene from concrete reality, the artist elevates her works to the metaphorical level of speaking about the antagonism between the exciting present and the uncertain future, in the context of personal but also collective concern for the fate of today’s young generation.
The exhibition will run until September 11.