" Paper, rags, glue"
In the art gallery of Belgrade Cultural Centre paintings as well as drawings of the young artist from Belgrade, Jelena Minic, are exhibited. The works are created in the combined technique and have been emerging during the last two years. Jelena’s paintings look like huge collages created in a traditional way, but with nonpainting materials: glue, collage details taken from other paintings, rags, wrinkled paper, found objects with which she creates the base and, over this base, puts new layers of picturesque material on which she paints, creating completely new forms. In a foreward of the catalog Sreto Bošnjak, an art historian as well as an art critic, wrote:
„ Every painting is based on several colorist zones (ocher, blue, pompadour/purple), but without strong painted contrasts: on the paintings there are almost not pure black, nor pure white colors: the painting lives from its dynamic harmony based on the visual (formal) on one side, and semantic complexity in the unity of the feelings and consciousness of the beauty of the freed language. In that way the painting appears as a whole, an idea of sincerity, knowledge and a sense for the authentic value of the ideas in general and artistic materials, too.“
Jelena Minic graduated at The Faculty of Applied Arts and Design in Belgrade, under professor Vladimir Todorović, and postgraduated her studies under professor Gradimir Petrović. She has many times taken part in joint/group exhibitions, and this is the first solo (independent) exhibition of hers.
L.D.