Olia Ristic

Olia Ristic paints nature and its healing power, like Matisse who wrote once that he sought to create an art that would be a "soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue". Her paintings are dynamic compositions and powerful expression of vibrant colours and brightnes which reflects her internal joy and happiness of life.

Her compositions oscillate between abstraction and figuration, sometimes within a single work in which colour is an entity that create a meaning.

In early 2004, she discovered that she was suffering from leukemia and her life has changed. She spent that summer in Italy.

This is where her attitude towards herself and painting has changed. There, in Italy, Rome, Neples, and Capri, her searching for healing has begun, a searching for a new light in herself, for the strength to start all over again. And that is where the cycle "Searching for the Light" has begun.
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The Mediterranean spirit is rather rare in contemporary Serbian art. Yet it has a loyal advocate in the painter Olia Ristic. Picasso, Matisse, Capri, indigo, blue, richly saturated colours and light, all come through in abundanc...

MA, Faculty of Fine Arts, Prishtine, Kosovo

Solo exhibitions:

2010. Tivat, Montenegro, Buća Art Gallery.

2010. Niš, Serbia, NKC Art Gallery.

2008. Paraćin, Serbia, KC Art Gallery.

2007. Kragujevac, Serbia, Mostovi Balkana Art Gallery.

2006. Sombor, Serbia, "Laza Kostić" Art Gallery.

2006. Winipeg - Manitoba, Canada, Ken Segal Gallery.

2005. Apatin, Serbia, Meander Art Gallery.

2004. Bečići, Montenegro, Splendid Hotel Art Gallery.

2003. Belgrade, Serbia, SULUJ Gallery.

2000. Herceg Novi, Montenegro, Sue Ryder Gallery.

2000. Kragujevac, Serbia, Minor Art Salon Gallery, National Museum of Kragujevac.