“Liberation” is an exploratory and thematic repertoire of sculptures created in the period 2017-2023, which in a suggestive way conveys new, complex ideas as well as the deeply repressed emotions of the author. By projecting personal emotional states, freed from the constraints of everyday life, through the transformation of matter, Masa Paunović conveys the magnificent idea of freedom, or the multifaceted liberation of thoughts, ideas, souls, matter…
As a sculptor who enters the very core of the material, whether it is wood, stone or metal, she devotes great attention to the dynamic shaping of trapped emotions.
Each of her sculptures exists as an authentic, living organism that is in a state of reshaping or transformation, striving to connect with space, while at the same time emitting a unique form of energy.
Articulating new energetic values, she not only establishes a connection with the viewer, but also generates new spatial visual content, problematizing current topics of contemporary society.
Maša Paunović was born on November 30, 1981 in Belgrade. She graduated in 2005 from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Department of Sculpture, in the class of Prof. Zorica Janković and Prof. Milun Vidić. In the same year, she enrolled in master’s studies and in 2010 she defended her master’s thesis on the topic “Sanduk-duh vremena, Trg Republike, Belgrade” in the field of sculpture. In 2012, she completed a specialization course in the field of artistic metal processing with sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, at the “Centro Tam” institute in Italy. At the National Museum in Belgrade, on December 5, 2014, she passed the professional exam and earned the right to the professional title of conservator-restorer.
She has been exhibiting in collective exhibitions since 2002 and has participated in over 100 collective exhibitions in the country and abroad, and has also had 8 solo exhibitions so far: