Category: Artists through History Inspiration
Kiki Smith visit to the Woven worlds exhibition as
It was a privilege to visit the exhibition of Kiki Smith in Montenegro in January of 2025 and journey the world from creation to ascension in the “Woven Worlds” which was the title of the exhibition.
Kiki Smith is an artist who goes deep into the world of mythology, connectivity of everything between the universe outside and universe within, a wonderment of this experience of being a human, interpreting and exposing a lot of societal dissonances. She places many question marks about the way the world is, and in some aspects a state of women in it. One of the most memorable of her sculptures is the series where she portrays women about to be burnt at the stake with the title: “Why have you forsaken me?”
Emerging from initially one would say religious background many pieces are alchemized into the material which speaks much more universal language, a modernity of mythologies and stories. Idea of progress, let’s start:
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Hilma af Klint mysticism that brought innovation in art which nobody was aware of at the time
Exploring the work of artist Hilma af Klint, with all the mystical, occult, metaphysical that she has been tapping into, indirectly going deep into the art that would have later be defined as abstract art. She innovated without even being aware of it and was was the world, unaware.
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Exploring the world of Petar Lubarda, seeing through all the way to building block that the stone is
This is a story, a personal impression rather, of a great artist Petar Lubarda with his roots in Montenegro, with trunk in former Yugoslavia’s Belgrade and Paris and branches, leaves, fruits and flowers in the World. He reaches deep into the history and yet gives us something completely new, a way to look through the prism of the stone that becomes a bone that becomes a structure that becomes an architecture. An architecture of the cosmic journey that we all take on this planet becoming one with the stone that made us and at the same time we become appalled from time to time when we notice the glimpses of the core. We live in the world so dominated by the ruthless ruler called beauty that often times we live in the superficial layer that the underlying truth frightens us. We have learnt to ignore the depth to such a degree that we follow the footpath of positive psychology, from one landmark to another, to avoid abyss at any price, the abyss of the unknown that the subconscious mind knows.
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Louise Bourgeois is crossing the boundaries of any of the definitions and exploring and emphasizing on the prevailing forces of the subconsciousness of the 20th century
Louise Bourgeois graced this planet with her presence spanning almost a century, during which she created a wide range of artistic pieces in different languages of materials and expression. She is one of the artists of 20th century who always came back to the psychology, self observation, getting back to the core, finding essence in the childhood memories and events.
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Luigi Russolo sees and hears the potential that the world has as the 20th century is unraveling from the build up of complexity
Luigi Russolo sees and hears the potential that the world has as the 20th century is unraveling...
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Marcel Duchamp and the road to the core concept and idea that creates art
Marcel Duchamp and the road to the core concept and idea that creates art
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Max Ernst his core ideas and place that inspired him the most
The center of gravity in the physical sense for Max Ernst on this planet was nothing less but the desert of Sedona, in Arizona. He found it when on his way traveling in a car with his partner Dorothea Tanning. His impression was that his entire life he painted this place and then Sedona found him, as a response he had to build a house, in full solitude, with famous sculptures watching over the inhabitants, they are called Capricorn.
“The role of the painter… is to project that which sees itself in him.” by Max Ernst
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Maurice Denis at the intersection of styles bridging the gap between impressionism and the beginning of 20th century movements
Finding the spiritual in art, and interpreting the flat surface into what it is – two...
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Inspiration for us in the 21st century Odilon Redon and his imaginary world that taps into the nightmare and the lightness of being simultaneously
Depicting the reality of fantastical or finding it within “I have often, as an exercise and...
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Oskar Kokoschka and making the invisible forces visible, while they shape the essential human condition
Exploring the 4th dimension of painting which is the core of vision in everything Oskar Kokoschka...
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Egon Schiele opens the world of visual distortion and traveling away from traditional, conventional and the definition of beauty is in the other world
The essence of human existence, what drives it forward or backward is the question “Bodies have...
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Joseph Stella, the efforts of the individuals and the stability of the whole collective. Lines and structure of both society and materials
Finding a true identity and meaning of life, a quest each of us is experiencing Joseph Stella felt...
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