" Through action to message"
A young artist Jelena Minic (1970) is aware of the necessity of belonging to the global world, she doesn’t hide her models, two huge icons of the world painting, Jackson Pollock and Jean Dubuffet on whom she has managed to create her own manuscript as well as a rich vocabulary recognizable all through the art history to technology of the chip, always questioning the implications of it and then, applying it in a new context.
Her paintings move into two directions: the expressions of movement on the painting and naturalistic fantasy of the message the painting is carrying. The images of a certain action cover an idea of the whole painting as well, images with no beginning and no ending, images of the invironment, the complex that surrounds an observer and insensibly aspirating that complex into oneself. Those are huge „built“ painted fields of intensive colorite calculated as ones that free positive energy which draw strength from many inserted (collage) paintings and objects arranged with incredible imagination which provokes an observer to carefully reads them.
The needed patience gives birth to the pleasure of travelling into the past as well as the future thanks to the author who has a special knowledge to highlight it. A special place in this group has „Pets’ Cemetery“, 2001, mixed technique 450 x 145 cm.
The other whole – a painting and a message – like „Shaman“, „Gossip“ or „Lilith“ starts from the reality of the painting as a physical object, which is of great importance in accomplishing the misterious, premordial effect. These pintings are bathed with magic lights shining from the pasta inside.
Jelena Minic is a painter of refined nerve and good craft, and her canvases testify that a painting is not dead if, like herself, one has a clear message, an artistic as well as a human one, which then, moves from personal to general. That entity has always been the characteristic of authentic, true Arts.
Gordana Vasiljević
Newspaper - „Danas“
15th April, 2002