An Axe for the people

Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts, painting department in Belgrade. She has been exhibiting since 1999 in the country and abroad. Having no role model and not feeling belonging in any direction, she creates works that in most cases are on the border of abstract and figurative expression. She is a member of ULUPUDS. The techniques she uses are mainly acrylic and mixed techniques on paper and canvas. Group and solo exhibitions: New York, Phoenix, Tokyo, Seoul, Marbella, Berlin, Paris, Ohrid, Sofia,... Read More

Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts, painting department in Belgrade. She has been exhibiting since 1999 in the country and abroad. Having no role model and not feeling belonging in any direction, she creates works that in most cases are on the border of abstract and figurative expression. She is a member of ULUPUDS.

The techniques she uses are mainly acrylic and mixed techniques on paper and canvas.

Group and solo exhibitions: New York, Phoenix, Tokyo, Seoul, Marbella, Berlin, Paris, Ohrid, Sofia, Belgrade...
She lives and works in Belgrade.

STATEMENT
"I create so I exist".

ART CRITIC:

Danijela Jović is a painter who is also involved in music, thanks to modern technology. She is a multimedia artist who, despite her experiments, which we might rather call spiritual journeys, preserves the purely artistic values of paintings and drawings, aware of the contemporary visual challenge, as a broader and newer term than art. If we focus only on the painting area of her creativity, and for her it is fundamental, we will see the elements of a wider artistic activity. As a painter, she expresses herself in cycles that have an internal logic of development. Her painting world ranges from full to empty, from light to dark, between abstraction and figuration.

Danijela Jović is one of our artists who is farthest from the concept of the so-called "painting one picture", using one successful found solution until wearing out mannerisms and clichés. She operates with multiple models and creative levels, valuing art as a special reality. Perhaps in the background of her work, as with prominent (post)modern artists, there is basically only the research of awareness of art, of the importance of the creative act. For her method, as with some advanced artists, the process, the path to the image, and not just the finalization, is crucial. It is an open work which, like some avant-garde works, can remain unfinished, so that the observer can finish it in his imagination or imagination. This was already observed in Cézanne. In this way, the viewer is not underestimated, but is taken as an active participant in the creation, instead of being exclusively presented and defined literally and banally until the end. It is about the immanent human need to conquer the space of freedom, which would be one of the possible definitions of Danijela Jović's creativity.(Art historian Dejan Đorić)

On the one hand, the visible dynamics of the compositions, most often expressed through figures caught in motion, in a pose, in the pursuit of something beyond the limits of the format, suggest overcoming the given forms, and at the same time Steps become a note of the creative process - Danijela Jović's search for the perfect image, for the moment when line, thought and emotion are in ideal harmony. Each work is a recorded step, a trace that the author leaves on her creative path, moving from more expressive compositions with strong color and emphasized dynamics to quieter, more refined forms with a calm tone and reduced details.
In that dialogue between the movement of the body and the movement of the spirit, between the external expression and the inner impulse of the artist, the exhibition opens up a space for contemplation about what it means to create, search, move, and never quite arrive, and in this sense Steps are both an intimate diary and a universal existential metaphor. ( Art historian Jelena Gajić)

online portfolio:

https://sretenammike29.crevado.com/

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