In the "Vitomir Srbljanović" Gallery in Pljevlja, an exhibition of paintings and drawings entitled "Touch of Self" by Marija Abramović was opened.
Marija Abramović (Vemić) was born in 1991 in Nikšić. She completed the painting study program at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, in the class of professor Dragan Karadžić, where she also completed specialist studies. She obtained the title of Master of Fine Arts in 2020, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, under the mentorship of prof. Tatjane Milaković – department of painting.
She exhibited at eight solo and several collective exhibitions. Participated in several symposiums and art projects in the country and abroad. She won the second prize at the "52. Hercegnov Winter Salon" in 2019. She is a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Montenegro.
"A lot has been written and spoken about Maria's painting through the study and reading of Maria's painting. I can say that I was quite amazed by the diversity and different approaches in the description of her creativity, which certainly speaks to the fact that this painting is worthwhile," said Aleksandar Ostojić, director of the Vitomir Srbljanović Gallery in Pljevlja, opening the exhibition.
He also read a text that "in a certain way treats certain questions and certain phenomena that Marija processes through the language of painting and deals with in a specific way".
"Interiority, multi-corporeality, unconsciousness of the function of corporeality opens up to us the aspect of interiority as an obligation and a form of punishment, which is assigned to man. Instability, reflected by the polyphony of movement and speech that is already sound, is unarticulated bodily aggressiveness and is the fruit of the polyphony of the interior. Aggressive corporeality and inarticulateness represent the image of a movement that cannot be defined in any other way than by positing human destiny as an end point that eludes time and again. The ruthlessness of the process of emotional experience, as opposed to aggressive physicality, dictates the tonalities of multicorporeality, this aspect is confirmed on the level of feeling that is captured in the eye and that only becomes a witness of the interior. We cannot speak in a sound that does not already exist. Such a reflection is only a reflection or some kind of shadow of reality, and the echo is possible only if the object of true cognition is emptiness, both spatial and sensory. Internal, without reflection, without sound, without reflection, becomes only internal and completely unknowable. In the entirety of its interiority, the interior becomes fulfilled, whole and possibly knowable only from the inside and which is only accessible to us from the outside and from the inside. To come out from the inside," Ostojić said, explaining that in this text he tried to treat some phenomena and aspects of Marija's painting in a different way than others who wrote about her work.
The author said that she is very pleased to be exhibiting at the Gallery in Pljevlja.
"I was pleased to respond to the invitation of my dear colleague and friend Aleksandar (Ostojić). I would like to thank you, Aco, for the way you analyzed my painting and for approaching this topic from a different perspective and for not sticking to an established form. Maybe it also contributed to the fact that we have known each other for a long time and you know all that I want to say through my works," said Abramović.
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