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"For me painting, and therefore any creative activity, is only a way not to come to the end of my life with an empty heart...I think it all started with russian science fiction stories that my father used to read to me instead of fairy tales when I was a little girl." |
OLJA IVANJICKI |
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OLJA IVANJICKI SUNDAY, MAY 10, 1998 ORGANIZED BY BLAGO FUND & YU GO, INTERNET MARKETING AGENCY |
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ABOUT OLJA Olja Ivanjicki's work reflect antique and renaissancial
spirit, spirit of American inovations and cosmic euphoria.
In some sense, with her opus, Olja Ivanjicki
is-classifier. The art of Olja Ivanjicki basically is synthetic vision
of destiny of the man of our age, solved by superior
language of a painter, it is symbolic and poetic building of
spirit which longs to cosmopolitism, to the great future
without tragic breaks, nonsense and force. Her painting
seams to determine time and space of its own , in its deep
sinking into a secret, mystery and substance of life. The painting of Olja Ivanjicki is permeated by particular
fantasy in which is present remembering of film, of its
effects and characteristic. As a thinker, if it means something in the meter of
painter, Olja had pointed out at wide range of her
interests, from philosophical to political and social
problems related to the world of our age. Olja Ivanjicki tells her idea and vision of the world, by
metaphor, by automatic relations between objects and with
the kind of painted montage, with which she deepen and
develop the basic opposition between real and unreal, actual
and fantastic, which are characteristic for her
expression. The essence of her inspiration is in tradition as well as
in her cosmically strolls that we recently saw on the
screen. But among all inspirative impulses, the
transformation from the human being into a astronaut is the
most important. For Olja Ivanjicki a hero of our age is
conqueror who was dreamed about and who has became real.
Olja Ivanjicki is not interested in cosmically programs...
about alienation that follows that programs so often - on
the contrary, she takes it the way it is. Paintings of Olja Ivanjicki are not specially
surrealistic, popartistic or hyperrealistic, aldow they draw
the essence from all those movements... going in for entire
human history in a wide zest... Olja Ivanjicki is also a member of famous Belgrade group
"Medijala" whose works can compete with high artistic
standards of renaissancial tradition and technic. Her
paintings, with rennaissancial perfecy of drawing include
visions of astronauts and other famous people confronted to
Mona Lisa's face which also contents the facial features of
an author herself. One of the most outstanding artists of Europe today, Olja
Ivanjicki has created her own contemporary neorealism in the
group of amazing, mystical paintings... Meeting a group of Belgrade surrealistic painters
gathered around "Medijala" was a great surprise for me,
especially meeting virtuous painting of Olja Ivanjicki , a
sole female member of that group, whose painting Max Ernest
and Inferno Orange stands out by strong and mysterious
magic... |
E-mail: olja@YUbusiness.co.yu
