We often say much more with our body than we can express with words, and non-verbal communication is, not so rarely, stronger and more expressive than verbal communication. This was also shown by the paintings of Lidija Vujačić exhibited in the "Onogošt" hotel, in which the body, primarily the extremities, occupy the central place, and positive energy shyly peeks through the canvases.
Her paintings are at the same time a "criticism" of today, where the body has taken a central position in relation to, as the author said, the spiritual, cognitive and creative. "The legs that the frame of the picture 'amputates' and isolates from everything else, thus making them the only theme that, from picture to picture, manifests itself through various variations, making the demand that they are the center - and here is another among the great truths with which after no one considered all previous appearances, at least, as far as I know, nothing similar was said about it in artistic language", said, opening the exhibition, prof. Dr. Milorad Simunović.
Although, as he said, the pictures indicated another centration that concerns what we concentrate on, decentration is also present.
"The legs in the picture, isolated as a figure without a background, are actually one pars pro toto or one part for the whole that our attention and intelligence must understand, and they must, since the vital condition of these legs is injected with obvious muscular tensions and makes it unquestionable. Precisely, undoubtedly, and in the technical sense also literally invisible, so that whole is also a present absence for which we again need to decenter and rotate in our minds in order to eventually understand/imagine in which position or in which action that the whole which is outside the frame of the picture and thus absent, but also whose part is inside the frame and thus present", said Simunović.
Painting and design are the passions of Lidija Vujačić, accompanying scientific work and creating an original connection between anthropology and art, so her way of painting expression was called fine anthropology.
"The themes in the paintings are based on sociocultural phenomena that I deal with within the anthropological disciplines, primarily the anthropology of media and popular culture, as well as the anthropology of consumerism, where the emphasis is on postmodern society and the postmodern individual. It is sometimes extremely stripped down, even simplified, i.e. the subject has become more of an object," Vujaciceva told "Vijesta".
That is why, as she pointed out, her paintings are also "a kind of 'criticism' of the extremely visualized civilization in which we live".
"The body is placed in the center, it has become the main 'virtue' (in relation to everything else - spiritual, cognitive and creative), with all other materialistic values. On the other hand, my paintings, that is, themes and messages, but in the ancient sense, glorify the harmonious combination of the physical and the spiritual and the naturalness of the physical. There are, of course, some other related topics, especially from the arsenal of anthropology of popular culture, or more precisely, popular and jeans subculture", pointed out Vujačićeva.
She graduated from the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, and also trained in Berlin and Graz, and received her doctorate in the field of sociocultural anthropology. The areas of her research are the anthropology of contemporary and popular culture, media culture and art anthropology. She is the author and co-author of 11 foreign and domestic monographs, and has written more than a dozen scientific and professional papers, as well as several hundred articles, feuilletons, contributions, reports, reports. She participated, by invitation, in dozens of prestigious international scientific conferences, managed and collaborated on several foreign projects. She continuously works on the popularization of anthropological science in different types of media, and was also a co-author and expert consultant in the work on several documentary films.
In March of this year, the audience from Podgorica had the opportunity to see her art works, while she presented herself to the Italian professional public at a multimedia event.
The exhibition in Nikšić, which is called "Body Language", consists of 22 canvases made in the oil pastel technique, and the public will be able to view the paintings until January 17.
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