INTERNATIONAL ART COLONY Cetinje 2019

CETINJE MONTE NEGRO APRIL M A Y 2 0 1 9

Towards Cooperation in the Adriatic - Ionian Region Through Dialogue

I N T E R N AT I O N A L

ART COLONY Montenegro Ministry of Culture

Montenegro Ministry of Foreign Affairs

ADRIATIC AND IONIAN INITIATIVE CHAIRMANSHIP OF MONTENEGRO JUNE 2018 - MAY 2019

ADRIATIC AND IONIAN INITIATIVE CHAIRMANSHIP OF MONTENEGRO JUNE 2018 - MAY 2019

Montenegro Ministry of Culture

Montenegro Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Towards Cooperation in the Adriatic - Ionian Region Through Dialogue Dijalogom do saradnje u Jadransko - jonskom regionu

Cetinje, 29 April – Budva, 8 May 2019

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Canvases of nine artists on the theme Towards Cooperation in the Adriatic – Ionian Region Through Dialogue, created in Cetinje in the past days, provide insight into different poetics of unique sensibilities. In arts of classical format, carried out by traditional painting techniques, affinities and reflections of unusual creativity are presented.

The purpose of art has always been to interpret and deconstruct the reality in search for deep meaning and answers, but also to warn on wrong ways that are an inevitable companion for every social development. Today, as rarely as ever, art has been put before challenges that equally require talent and inspiration as well as responsibility.

The innovative view of the artists of our epoch almost obligates to reject the so-called artistic legitimacy, i.e. requires a conscious and brave variance from the desirable previous paths in order to seek new ways of expressing and creating new maps of meaning.

In this sense, the artworks created on this colony are encouraging with their originality and freshness in their quest for – how and in which ways to the more humane and conscious future of this region? On this significant contribution, we would like to thank these authors and once again emphasize our support and strategic commitment towards promoting good neighborly relations and regional cooperation with the aim of further development and growth of this region, which is the strategic goal of the Adriatic – Ionian initiative.

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ARDIT BORIÇI

A L B A N I A

Born in Lushnja, Albania on February 26, 1988. After having developed the artistic high school in Tirana he graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana, under the profile "Painting of Cavallet". In the years 2014 - 16 he works as a teacher of painting at the art school "Jordan Misja" in Tirana. In the last years he is absent in the Academia dell Arte in Tirana in the profile "Painting Monumentalle".

In 2015 he is the curator of the Youth Center of Tirana. In 2016 manages the WAG Albania Foundation (world Art Games).

During these years he opened collective exhibitions, he is also the curator. In 2016 he opens his personal exhibition "SOSPENDED" in Galleria FAB, Tirana.

Now he is a free artist.

BUFFALO HEAD oil on canvas 100x70, 2019

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NELISA BAŽDAR

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Nelisa Baždar born in Sarajevo in 1986.

She graduated from the University of Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts in 2011, Department of Teaching, subsection graphics. During her studies she attended additional classes of restoration and conservation of objects and artifacts.

She worked as a professor of art education.

She has exhibited at several collective and independent exhibitions in the region and abroad. Twice she was a participant of the Biennale of Young Artists in Nottingham, England in year 2012, Milan, Italy in 2015, where she had the honor to represent the country where she was born, lives and works in the field of visual arts. In 2018 acquired a prominent status of independent artists in the Sarajevo Canton. She is a member of ULUBiH.

THE WEALTH OF TRADITION oil on canvas 100x70, 2019

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DOMINIK VUKOVIĆ

C R OAT I A

Dominik Vuković was born in Zagreb on December 13, 1990. He completed the School of Applied Art and Design in 2009. That same year he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts where he opted for the direction of the graphics and fine art printmaking. At the third year of study he comes to the classroom of Svjetlan Junaković where he meets with applied graphics and illustrations and graduates the academy in Junaković's class in 2015. He participates in many art colonies and workshops. He is exhibiting at several group exhibitions and four solo exhibitions. After graduation, he worked in the Space Shuttle collective with Klara Rusan and Martin Hrastić and collaborates with the collective Pimp my Pump in the Lapo Lapo Street Art collective. During that time in street art studio he is introduced in painting murals. He collaborates with Croatian publishing houses Fraktura, V.B.A., Albatros and Mala zvona (litlle bells). He lives and works as a freelance illustrator, graphic artist and painter in Zagreb.

MEŠTROVIĆ IN LOVĆEN oil on canvas 100x70, 2019

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SPIROS GELEKAS

GREECE

Spiros Gelekas was born (1979) and raised in Corfu, where he lives until today. He is a professional artist, who studies and embraces the artistic movements of surrealism, realism and modern art. He ďŹ rst met painting in 1987, next to his teacher and artist Spiros Alamanos.

In 2017 he became member of the Corfu Art Gallery and the International Art Events organization, which is exclusively represented by MO2art (micro-oxygenated art).

In 2018, one of his artworks was selected in order to be included in the annual calendar of Corfu Events Organization (OKE).

The same year he was included in the Global Art Freaks magazine and in addition, his artworks were presented in various exhibitions in China, next to Salvador Dali's and Pablo Picasso's paintings.His artworks can be found in the Corfu Art Gallery, i-club M02art and private collections of famous musicians, photographers, athletes and theatrical producers worldwide (Greece, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, UK, USA and China).

THE UNION OF BEAUTIES oil on canvas 100x70, 2019

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ANTONIO MAZZOTTI

I TA LY

Antonio Mazzotti was born in Bologna on June 12th 1997.

He enrolled in the Artistic School in Rimini in 2012. And attained the “Artistic Degree” in 2017. He is currently studying at the “Academy of fine arts” in Venice and he is attending the painting course.

He started off by drawing comics, going on into a more realistic kind of representation with figurative painting. He draws and paints portraits, but lately he shifted his focus onto landscapes and nocturnal sceneries.

He partoook in various workshops, not only about painting, but also cinema and sculpture themed, keeping his mind open towards every form of Art.

MONTENEGRO oil on canvas 100x70, 2019

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MILICA LAKIĆEVIĆ

MONTENEGRO

Born in Cetinje in 1993.

Student specialist postgraduate studies at Faculty of Fine Arts, study program Painting, in the class of prof. Mr. Branislav Sekulić.

She received special awards at the 1st International Biennial of Engraving and Painting in Hungary 2012.

She has exhibited at several collective and independent exhibitions in the country and abroad.

She is a member of ULUCG and UMHCG.

COMMUNICATION oil on canvas 100x70, 2019

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IVANA MOJSOVSKA

NORTH MACEDONIA

As an expressive painter aiming to depict her emotional states, Ivana is seeking to materialize her own energy which is driven by her intuition. The aesthetics of the inwards is what she is interested in, and she strive to convey it to the real world. Ivana Mojsovska was born in Skopje, Macedonia in 1993. She graduaded in 2017 with a Bachelor's Degree in painting at the Faculty of ďŹ ne arts in Skopje, and she is also persuing a Master's Degree in the class of professor Blagoja Manevski.

UNTITLED oil on canvas 100x70, 2019

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GALA ČAKI

SERBIA

My work can be subsumed under a kind of schematic expression of my inner life in all of its dramatic turbulence. In this way my paintings become a sacred space, a sanctuary in which my ego can reclaim its depthness and creativity that have been lost in the world. I pull my strength from the non oblivion and the capacity to imagine a multiple coexistence of destinies. The presence of yearning for understanding of passings that last indefinitely around us, all those lives that are deaths undercover, is what leads me to creation.

The purpose of my work is bringing into question the logic of reality, and that points to awareness of a different reality. With my artistic synthesis I strive to bring to life a new, different, so far not seen reality- a noble, sensible, exciting and highly aestheticized one.

DINARAC oil on canvas 100x70, 2019

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LUČKA ŠPAROVEC

SLOVENIA

Lučka Šparovec was born in 1984 in Kranj, Slovenia. She studied painting in Ljubljana at College of Visual Arts from 2005 to 2010. She has finished her MA at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ALUO), University of Ljubljana.

She works in the fields of painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpure. She has received several Recognitions and the Student Prešern Award of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana. She has solo exhibitions in Slovenia and Austria and participated numerous group exhibitions and at symposia in Europe, Canada and Israel. She lives and works in Bled, Slovenia.

PEACE oil on canvas 100x70, 2019

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ADRIATIC AND IONIAN INITIATIVE CHAIRMANSHIP OF MONTENEGRO JUNE 2018 - MAY 2019

Montenegro Ministry of Culture

Montenegro Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Publishers: Ministry of Culture of Montenegro Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro Permanent Secretariat of Adriatic & Ionian Initiative Photography: Vladana Vojinović Franci Virant Design: Petar Kovačević Print: Opus 3, Podgorica Copies: 150

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