After a short illness, Montenegrin sculptor and professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Nikšić, Ana Miljkovac, died today at the age of 57.
Asst. Dr. Ana Miljkovac was born in Nikšić, where she completed primary and secondary school. She enrolled in the sculpture department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, and graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, in the class of professor Pavle Pejović. She received her doctorate at the Performing Arts Faculty of Art and Design in Belgrade under the mentorship of Professor Miloš Šobajić. She is the co-author of five textbooks on fine arts, four for elementary students and one for elective classes for the first and second grade of high school, and the same number of manuals for teachers.
She exhibited at numerous collective exhibitions in the country and abroad, and she also had 13 solo exhibitions. She is the winner of several national and international awards for sculpture, as well as an award for a Montenegrin souvenir.
"For me, the awards are a sign that the work has been noticed as original and separate from the multitude of surviving ones. In this sense, they are desirable. Somehow I prefer it when I receive an award that is not from Montenegro, because it comes from unknown selectors. "Montenegro is a small community, we know each other, so I think that personal contacts and the subjective relationship of the selectors in relation to the authors have a great influence," Miljkovac told "Vijesti" two years ago.
Sculptures, installations, mixed media – different ways of expression, but always the same "signature" by which she was recognizable.
"All these works were done in different time periods, but they were accidentally exhibited in a short time interval. In relation to the content I deal with, I choose the medium of expression, and the work process itself, if it succeeds, brings satisfaction. I'm always interested in the beginning of work, a kind of discovery, construction, creating a concept, planning, in any medium," said Miljkovac at the time.
The artist's work is always a story about himself - sometimes less is revealed, sometimes more, and not so rarely he is not aware of the revelation.
"There is probably a lot of me in my works. I think that art is the sphere of activity where a person is the most open. That is why it is so specific and close to people. From time to time it happened to me that quite some time after finishing the work I see something in it that is related to me intimately, and that I wasn't aware of that during the work itself", said the artist who will be buried tomorrow at the cemetery under Trebjes.
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