Ivana Glibota

Ivana is a Croatian artist from Makarska born in 1987. She graduated in 2011 from the Academy of Fine Arts (Bosnia and Herzegovina) with a Master´s degree in painting. She has held 3 solo exhibitions and been invited to take part in over 20 national and international exhibitions. In the competition held by the University of Mostar in 2008 she was awarded second prize in photography. Josip Karamatic describes her work as a vision of homeland landscapes, refined with a substantial dose of symbolization. Reductive figuration with its systematic accentuation of form, makes her canvases a form of personal re-examination of painting. On first impression, these paintings suggest an absence of the artist’s interest in any kind of moving outside of painting; a way of trying to find the meaning of life, the despair over the fate or an appropriate creative hyper production under powerful rush of inspiration. Author with her paintings, measure of the most romantic spices, adds just particles of mood of being what, with simulated narration, leaves all of the stories, her own before all, and then ours too, in the second plan. Free as that, already in the beginning she devotes herself to the painting alone. She freely plays with colour, tones, li...

Academy of Fine Arts (Bosnia and Herzegovina)