Dbk J-D-S (more je sve je more)*TEBE NOSIM Painting

Dbk J-D-S (more je sve je more)*TEBE NOSIM / mixed media on canvas // 100 x 80 cm Created in July 2016 and will be exhibited on my solo exhibition: LENA KRAMARIĆ / " THE WORKS" 25/07 – 07/08/2016 in Old City - Dubrovnik - Croatia. from the exhibition THE WORKS: Exploring the world around me in relation to my own inner world in an introspective and autoreferential way I am trying to connect motifs of the real and surreal, of the actual, imaginary and subconscious in the narrative scenes, leaving enough space to observers for their individual interpretation. I reflect while I paint. Preparation for paintings are sketches that emerge inside my head around the clock. When I get hold of my tools I work spontaneously and fast, very often on more works simultaneously. Amongst my works there are those that are obvious and easily comprehensible and yet there are those that are less easily decipherable, there are symbols and elements from the real world that surrounds us, which together make a collage of emotions, states and words. Collage as an art technique is an integral part of my work, as well as drawing, which comes at the beginning and at the end of everything I do. Colour and drawing supercede and complement each other in the working process while the paint roller with white tempera partially annuls them, creating transparency or dimness. Vanishing turning into new creation. A painting is created in layers, using trial, error and success to achieve the desired final effect. Taking off and then adding new layers of colour and drawing, a worn-out surface is obtained which is contrasted by bright details. As in life, in which the most unusual combinations of emotions and sensations coexist simultaneously, my works also contain various mutually opposing elements so it seems that my work is a continual process of transferring impulses obtained from life into my work. Everyday experiences and information are turned into another state of matter. All that is mixed and something new emerges in the form of a painting, sometimes unclear and ambivalent and often unexplained because I move on, in my work as well as in life, undividedly and a bit too fast. Lena Kramarić (1982, Zagreb, Croatia). Living and working in Dubrovnik. Currently at Postgraduate doctoral studies (PhD) at Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Graduated 2008 from the Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Art education and Art history, course: Painting (MA). Finished course for Graphic design at Pro-anima school (2006-2007) and School of Applied Arts and Design (Graphic design, print and drawing department, 1997-2001). Member of HDLU (Croatian Association of Artists). She has exhibited widely in solo and group shows. Recent exhibitions include: New structures and other conditions, Monastery S. Klara (Visia Hall) / Seven (new generation of young artists of Dubrovnik), Studio for contemporary art Flight 777 / Strategies of survival and other combined techniques, Luža / Design in Croatia expo, Luža / Though the looking glass, Prijeko Palace / What I have been doing this year, Gallery Flora / Yellow gray pink - a look from the inside, Gallery Sebastian / Dubrovnik moment in the fine arts, Museum of modern art in Dubrovnik ::: The Irresponsibles , Presentation of a work in progress , ZPC _ Zagreb Dance Centre/ Annual exhibition Croatian association of artists , Gallery Prsten – HDLU / Luxury, Academia Moderna, Zagreb & Art radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik / Boiling point, Festival of contemporary painting / 45th Zagreb salon, HDLU - performance: ‘How to value work of Art’ in Zagreb ::: Leupold Gallery – Rothenbach a.d. Pegnitz, Deutschland / Amstel Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands / AAF (Affordable Art Fair), Amsterdam, Netherlands and Milan, Italy / AcquestArte, International contemporary art, Ascona, Switzerland / Interzone City, video work ‘Closer’, Gallery Galženica, Velika Gorica and many others.