Paintings created of the trown materials
At the exhibition at Belgrade Cultural Centar
It is sometimes possible to realize a painting using only nonpainting materials which do not demand the author to be exposed to excessive financial costs.The work of Jelena Minic confirms the rule that paints, brushes and canvases can successfully be replaced by some trown materials like fabric, rags, paper, sand, newspaper clipping like cut off newspaper pages, details taken from other paintings, but only if they are, as in this case, fit into one coloristic and artistic harmony.
This way of collage in Jelena Minic’s creativity, together with very clear potentiation of the soft colours, has contributed, at first sight, to the wrong imression, that all the exhibited works were made by the most popular painting technique.
The value of these enormous compositions, in fact, lays in the idea that the compositions can be observed in two ways. The first: from the distance when they function as some abstract paintings, whish provoke by its yellow, pompadour (purple) and blue coloring. The second: up close, when they reveal small picturesque and nonpicturesque details that point out the fact that Jelena Minic realized her concept by conscious joining a child’s drawing together with a surrealist collage.
For all these reasons the whole representation satisfies the criterion of those temperamental observers who enter the gallery to spend only several minutes, as well as of the patient analysts who want to carefully reveal the kind of materials and variety of details Jelena Minic’s paintings were made of