Selena Vicković

Selena was born in 1958 in Belgrade. She graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 1982. In 1984 she furthered her studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris as a recipient of the French government scholarship. She obtained her MA in 1988 at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, where she begins to teach shortly after as a docent of drawing and painting. So far Selena has had numerous solo exhibitions in Belgrade, Paris, Rome, Copenhagen, Azerbaijan, and had participated in various group shows in former Yugoslavian countries, France, Belgium and Germany. She received the Salon de Montrogue award in 1999. Currently she lives and works both in Belgrade and Paris. She has got two published artist monographs: „About Selena Vickovic’s Art”, dr Lidija Merenik, Foundation Vujicic collection, 2015. and „Selena Vickovic: Crying Game 1997-2009“, Marina Martić, 2011.

Marija Avramović

Marija was born in 1989 in Belgrade and is currently living and working in Paris. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2014 and shorty after received her MA at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In her work she is mostly focused on drawing and painting, and she has recently turned to installation through which she explores space as well as different materials. Up to now Marija has had three solo exhibitions and took part in many groups shows in Serbia, France, Germany, England and Portugal. In the last series of Marija’s works, which holds a title After party, the artists deal with topics such as: women friendship, adolescence, pools and parties seen as physical and emotional spaces of utopia and liberation.

Mario Kolarić

Mario is a visual artist born in 1984 in Belgrade who grew up in Osijek, and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2010. He has been a member of Croatian Association of Artists since 2010. Mario works in the field of drawing, objects and installation, creating an abstract narrative through simple visual artistic elements. So far, he has had several solo and numerous collective exhibitions in the Balkans and Europe. Currently he lives and works in Belgrade.  

Emilija Radojčić

Emilija is a visual artist who currently lives and works in Belgrade. Through almost ritual dedication to the process of drawing and painting, she examines feelings, vibrations, natural events and phenomena in which a man reflects trying to find potential positive and often abstract solutions for his state. She works in the field of drawing, painting, objects, installation, performance and urban interventions. Emilija frequently exhibits in Serbia and abroad – so far she has realised many solo and group shows, audio-visual performances, collaborations and publications.

Mišo Filipovac

Mišo Filipovac was born in 1987 in Bajna Bašta. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology and Arts in Kragujevac in 2010, where he is currently lecturing drawing, painting and academy figure as an assistant professor. HE has been a PhD student supervised by Vladimir Veličković since 2012. He is actively exhibiting in the country and abroad. Mišo is a member of ULUS (Association of Fine Artists of Serbia). The focus of his work is drawing. He lives and works in Belgrade and Kragujevac.

Bratislav Milenković

Bratislav is an illustrator who lives and works in Belgrade. He graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade at the Department of Graphics and Book Design. He has participated in numerous exhibitions in the country and abroad and his works can be found in various books, popular magazines, and other publications dealing with illustrations and graphic design, as well as printed and online journals, such as: New York Times, Guardian, Wired, GQ, Esquire and many others.

Summer vibes

Radiant sun, vivid colours, sandy beaches, seaside, waves splashing against the shore and feeling of sublime joy are only some of the associations that bring summer to mind. No other season tolerates such fondness for cliches as summer does, and its enchanting atmosphere has always been inspirational to artists.

As we drift deeper into the summer, we present you the selection of interesting artworks by six artists, emanating summer charms.

The artworks by Selena Vicković, Mario Kolarić, Emilija Radojčić, Marija Avramović, Mišo Filipovac and Bratislav Milenković search for no conventional aesthetics and often find a new sort of rebellious beauty. This beauty dares to reveal the grotesque of pictorial art, while telling no difference between the digital and „real“, and giving away the enjoyable beauty of the imaginative as well as popular.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date>

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;

And every fair form fair sometime decline,

By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st<

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Sonnet 18

William Shakespeare.