Description
‘Touch’ by Ivana Živić
Artist: Ivana Živić
Title: ‘Touch’
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Dimensions: 25.6″ x 25.6″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2021
About the Artwork:
The act of swimming, as the sole form of movement through the space of a painting, imposes a strong experience of forgotten, sunken space or even space of a dream. The atmosphere of underwater reality create and expand the swimmers themselves. The ease and freedom of the movement of their bodies is contrary to the experience of incarceration and loneliness of the painted space. The rooms of water suggest soaking, sinking and drowning, but searching as well. Dislocation of the individual into the submerged, lonely world of urban living refers to reconsideration of life choices, relationships and environments. Through analogy with water, interior or inner space, and the very act of swimming my work deals with emotions and emotional states. In the life of every individual and in all areas of social life emotions have an enormous significance. To understand them, means not only to know better yourselves, but also to better understand another person as well.
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Ivana Živić was born in 1979 in Sarajevo (BIH). She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Arts in Belgrade, Department of Painting (2004). She completed her postgraduate studies at the same university (2008). She has exhibited in 23 solo and over 60 group exhibitions at home and abroad. Awards: Contemporary Painting Award 202, Drawing award of the Salon des Beaux Arts 2019 Paris, Praise for drawing, Vladimir Velickovic Fund 2016 Belgrade, Rotary Club Award 2014, Belgrade ; Award for Production Work, Mangelos Fund 2012, The Second Biennial of Drawings in Pancevo. She has exhibited at Nord Art (2017 and 2016) as well as at The Other Art Fair in partnership with the Saatchi Online Gallery in London (2019). She has participated in art residencies: Artist in Residence at Serbian Art Month, Art hub, Abu Dhabi 2018; GLO’ART (Global Art Centre) Lanaken, Belgium (2015) and at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2009).
Ivana’s paintings are characterised by exploring the interiors submerged underwater in a unique blend of realism, fantasy and montage. Executed with great finesse, the viewer feels enveloped by these spaces populated by a single presence of a swimmer exploring the inner world of emotions. In the life of every individual and in all areas of social life emotions have an enormous significance. To understand them means not only to know better yourselves, but also to better understand another person as well.