Marija Skoric

"Marija Škorić's paintings are a kind of arabesques of dense handwritten weaving. These arabesques sometimes resemble the calligraphic gesture that we find in the painting worlds of Mark Toby, Jean Bazaine, Alfred Manessier and Roland Barthes. Elsewhere, however, we perceive it in the form of multi-colored patterns, structured on a base of discrete geometric weft, softened by plasma-like melting (Birth of Pegasus, Shaman's Forest Selfie). And these patterns have a related genealogy of related painterly poetics in authors like Jean le Moal. We then encounter a somewhat more freely expressed arabesque in paintings in which the color is laid down in multicolored spots that take on irregular, organic shapes (Wonders of the Forest), and which paintings are influenced by the stylistic pattern of tachism, following in the footsteps of Sam Francis, Norman Lewis and Judith Lindbloom. The last subgroup of the arabesque syllable can be found in the pictures Happy Dog, Sunny Night and Good Morning, Good Night. These are pictures that are somewhat phantasmagorical in their inspiration, in which the arabesque resembles the method of automatic drawing practiced by certain surrealists. All the mentioned references are branches of the painting fami...

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022.
– Gallery of Croatian Association of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Good Morning and Good Night

2016.
– Gallery of Croatian Association of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Identities

2015.
– Gallery of Croatian Association of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Life of Elements

2014.
– Gallery of Croatian Association of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Playfulness

2010.
– City Library, Novi Vinodolski, Behind Things

2006.
– Gina’s Weibar, Vienna, From above

2005.
– The BRAP Club, Vienna, Andere Welten



SELECTED COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2022.
– Gallery Modulor – CEKATE – We Are Only 40 Years Old

2021.
– Gallery of Croatian Assotiation of Fine Arts, Zagreb, The Smell of Summer
– Gallery of Croatian Association of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Black and White World
– Gallery Crta, Zagreb, Half a Year
– KUC Travno, Zagreb, Španciranje
– Gallery of Croatian Association of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Her

2020.
– Galley of Croatian Association of Fine Arts, Zagreb, The Memory of First Love
– Gallery of Croatian Association of Fine Arts, Zagreb, The Colors of Summer

2019.
– Gallery of Croatian Association of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Ages
– Gallery of Croatian Association of Fine Arts, Zagreb...