"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 |
PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS 1955-1966
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ABOUT OLJA Olja Ivanjicki's (the right
pronouncement is Olya Ivanitski) 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... |
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