Pictures by Aleksandra Popović

Aleksandra Popović graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1995, as well as from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade in 1987. She exhibited independently at exhibitions in Paris (2001), Vienna (2008), New York (2008). She is the winner of the prestigious prize for fine arts awarded by the "Academia di Belle Arti" in Rome. Criticisms of her work were published in the media in France, Croatia, Serbia, and Montenegro. He lives and works in New York.

"The most important paintings in this exhibition are dedicated to my father (Aleksandra is the daughter of the late Montenegrin cinematographer Nikola Popović, pr. JPT) and I worked on them for several years, and the second part of the exhibition consists of paintings based on water, the sea. I made them based on photos I took on the Adriatic coast. The theme of water itself is impressive, complex and difficult for the painter, because constructively everything is set in motion. That theme can take you lyrically, abstractly," said Aleksandra Popović, who creates her paintings using the oil on canvas technique.

"If you work with acrylics, you are limited. It's like working with plastic. But when you work with oil paints, you have unlimited possibilities of using natural pigments. All these pigments react very sensitively to light, so it is possible to create images that change in the light. They are alive," Popović told "Vijesta" that the exhibition in the "Centar" gallery is the first art presentation in Montenegro.

"The wonderful work of Aleksandra Popović is a study of contradictions. Pictures made with such precise craftsmanship must have been created slowly and methodically, while the completed work shows the explosive energy and personal attitude of the most impulsive movement picture. These paintings reveal ecstasy in nature, but they also possess the ferocity of the most passionate contemporary abstraction," art critic Dan Bergman wrote about Aleksandra Popović's work.

The exhibition in the "Centar" gallery, organized by the Center of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, will be opened by Milica Radulović, art historian and Blagota Eraković, director.

When you work with oil paints, you have unlimited possibilities of using natural pigments. All these pigments react very sensitively to light, so it is possible to create images that change in the light. They are alive, Popović told "Vijesta".