The Threads of My Identity

She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Painting in Belgrade. She has been exhibiting since 1999 in the country and abroad. Without role models and without feeling belonging to any movement, she creates works that are in most cases on the border of abstract and figurative expression, or exclusively abstract. She is a member of ULUS and ULUPUDS. She is also involved in music and is a member of SOKOJ.

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

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

STATEMENT
“I create, therefore I am.”

ART CRITICISM

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

Danijela Jović is one of our artists who is furthest from the concept of the so-called “painting of a single picture,” using one successfully found solution until it is exhausted into mannerism and cliché. She operates with multiple models and creative levels, valuing art as a special reality. Perhaps behind her work, as with prominent (post)modern artists, there is fundamentally only an exploration of the 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, is crucial, not just the finalization. It is an open work that, like some avant-garde works, can remain unfinished, so that the viewer can complete it in their imagination or mind. This was already noted in Cézanne. In this way, the viewer is not underestimated, but understood as an active participant in creation, instead of being exclusively presented and defined literally and banally to the end. It is about the immanent human need to conquer a space of freedom, which would be one of the possible definitions of Danijela Jović's creativity. (Art historian Dejan Đorić)

On one hand, the visible dynamics of the compositions, most often expressed through figures caught in motion, in a pose, in a striving for something that transcends the boundaries of the format, suggests overcoming given forms, while at the same time “Steps” become a note of the creative process - Danijela'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 towards quieter, more refined forms with a calm tone and reduced details.

In this dialogue between the movement of the body and the movement of the spirit, between the external expression and the internal impulse of the artist, the exhibition opens a space for reflection on what it means to create, to seek, to 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://danijelajovic.crevado.com/

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