Exhibitions of young artists from Podgorica, Tijana Vujović and Nikola Radonjić, were opened in Nikšić galleries "Nikola I" and "Ilija Šobajić" last weekend. The exhibition of artists of different sensibilities and artistic approaches was opened by David Delibašić, curator at the Nikšić Museums and Galleries, within the Nikšić cultural scene program.
"Here, in one breath, we have a collision of art forms that can be understood as classical. So, we are talking about classical painting and relief sculpture. Right away, we can notice and profile two particular perspectives that treat contemporary issues, or rather, the reaction to them," said Delibašić.
Tijana Vujović exhibited two diptychs and nine works in combined technique and acrylic, from the cycle "What lies beneath".
"The focus of my research is man, who is always in a close community or conflict with nature, as well as human nature itself. I usually take the characters from family photos found in the digital iconosphere, from which I 'crop' the figures and place them in another, alienated and somewhat lonely environment, which is harmless and unknown", said the artist who completed her painting studies at the FLU in Cetinje, in to the class of prof. Rajko Todorović, and last year she received her master's degree in Cultural History at the Institute of History in Podgorica
With the works, he says, he wants to pose the question of human identity and incarnation - the elevation of man as the central object of the work.
"I use a symbolic narrative to wander between reality and fiction," she explained.
As part of the "Dance of Flying Spheres" exhibition, the painter and sculptor Nikola Radonjić exhibited 17 authentic symbolic relief structures, of various forms, with accumulated corrosion and cracks, with which the author covers and accentuates these structures.
"The spheres represent the most subtle forms of consciousness, such as inspiration, while the corrosion on the reliefs represents neglect and ignoring of those forms of consciousness. Inspired by archetypal symbols, I made certain compositions such as crosses, spirals, mandalas, and other forms of meaningful symbolic meaning. These are forms that are found in different cultures and can often be found in nature," explained Radonjić, who completed his basic and specialist studies, sculpture department, at the FLU in Cetinje.
The reliefs were created, he explains, using a technique he "invented".
"In the process of work, I used a type of plastic, which I somehow 'invented' and adapted to work in a closed space. It is based on acrylic and is not harmful to health. Also, I accidentally invented 'rust' with a type of electrolysis, applying it to relief surfaces from several layers," said the artist.
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