Tristesse Photograph

Ivana Ranisavljević was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1983. Graduated in 2010, at Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Painting department. She is final year student of the Faculty of Philosophy, since 2002, History of Art department. Solo exhibitions: 2009- Drawings and photo-collages, University Library "Svetozar Markovic", Belgrade Group exhibitions: 2010- ''Perspective 9'', photo-collage, Art Clinic, Novi Sad, Serbia 2010- ''New Young'', photo-collage, ''Zvono'' Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia 2010- Photo-collage, Gallery of Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia 2009- ''Young 2009'', mosaic, Gallery of Nadezda Petrovic, Cacak, Serbia 2008- Dance performance and photography, Art Summer School (University of Art-Belgrade), Negotin, Serbia 2009, 2008, 2007- Drawings, DOB Gallery (Dom omladine Beograda), Belgrade, Serbia 2007- Painting, National Academy of Arts, Bulgaria Awards, Scholarships: - Second aword from the Provincial Secretariat for Culture of Vojvodina, 2010 - Scholarships from the Ministry of Youth and Sport, Republic of Serbia, 2006\2007, 2007\2008, 2008\2009, 2009\2010 - Scholarship from the City of Belgrade, Department of Education, 2007\2008 Ivana Ranisavljević is a young artist, who very early discloses her deep understanding of the interactive unity of the outward and the inward, the full and the empty, and who suggests her profound, dominant interest in the direct issues of man's physical, psychological and spiritual life within the context of his social conditionality. She uncovers the high abilities to articulate the issues of man's rituality and its role in the differentiation and development of his ethical and aesthetic being. In her latest series of drawings and photo-collages under a common name ''Liberation'', this young artist suggests that man's loneliness is an inevitable consequence of the being as a discontinuity. Using primarily her own body as a medium, through a very defined, seemingly 'ritual' gesture of an artist-shaman, she simultaneously places herself into the role of the narrator, the subject-mediator and the passive object, who, as a unique symbol, indirectly suggest the various spheres of human existence and man's ultimate purpose.