tadija janiČiĆ filein one of slobodan tišma’s first review of tadija janičić’s exhibition...
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The images from the cycle “Optimism a Virtue of Life” with recognizable icono-graphy and motifs are consistently continued with the works of Tadija Janicic. The exuberance of everyday life becomes a worthy motive for one, with all the techni-cal characteristics, the traditional media - oil on canvas. Cacti, animals, sunglasses, surf boards, tents and electricity cables, washing machines, flowers, bushes and bumblebees. Human figures that seem to be all about a caricature of a universal man or woman, with addition of various accesories so that we might recognize them in our surroundings. The combination of motifs and decorative, once schema-tically designed backgrounds, creates a quasi-psychedelic atmosphere, characteri-stic of the techno-culture of the modern age, yet not deprived of characteristic wit. And the most horrible scenes have taken away the “terrible” with infantile display, or by inserting the screen frame. It is terribly scary when someone is missing a head or is devoured by an animal, but it is banalized to humor on paintings. They are narrative and descriptive, figurative as well as abstract. If they are metaphors or fables, they are lacking moral of the story. The meaning of the scenes is displaced, the connotations evade’ the semiotics and the meaning of the hermeneutics.
In one of Slobodan Tišma’s first review of Tadija Janičić’s exhibition it says that his paintings “speak of the condom order in which we live”. In the most recent interpre-tations, Miško Šuvaković finds Tadija’s works in the context of “new painting” that emerges in the time of media and transitional globalism, and in which the image is a “new type of abstracted” event in a reference relationship with the media screen images1. The screen is the connection of these images to the “real” world. They are decadent, sarcastic, provocative, screaming colors. One represent simulacrum, though they are not simulacrum. In the same way, they show the world - consumer, superficial, disturbing, psychedelic, transitional, globalized, and glocalized, banal - yet optimistic about the next news story, the next source of joy.
Ivana Benović
1 M. Šuvaković (ed.), Art History in Serbia XX century, Vol. 1: Radical Art Practices, Belgrade, 2010.
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EDUCATION
2015Doctoral studies, Academy of Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia2000 - 2004Academy of Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia1995 - 1999Faculty of Fine arts Cetinje, Montenegro
AWARDS
2008.First prize of the 37th Novi Sad photo gallery2008.YU Youth Yield Award2003.The best young creator in the drawing category within the Perspective II project2001.Annual Award for drawing of the Faculty of Fine Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015.Gallery prototype, Belgrade2014. Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad2013. Gallery Haos, Belgrade2012. Gallery 73, Belgrade2012. Gallery Pizana, Podgorica, Montenegro2011. Gallery Aleksandar Đonović, Arandjelovac,2011. Gallery Ozon, Belgrade
2011. Gallery Art9, Budapest, Hungary2011. Gallery Remont, Belgrade2010. Gallery Nova, Belgrade2009. Gallery Mali likovni salon, Novi Sad2009. Gallery Perjanički dom, Podgorica, Montenegro2008. Gallery of Contemporary Art, Smederevo2008. Arte Gallery, Belgrade2008. Gallery of the Cultural Center of Novi Sad, Novi Sad2007. Gallery Pac, Murska Sobota, Slovenia2007. Dom omladine Gallery, Belgrade2007. Gallery Vojvodjanska banka, Novi Sad2007. Gallery Tableau, Novi Sad2005. Gallery Tableau, Novi Sad2005. Art Clinic, Novi Sad2003. Gallery Alterlibre, Osaka, Japan2003. Gallery Den, Tokyo, Japan
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015.Exhibition Mangelos finalist, gallery Remont, Belgrade2014. Premonition / Blood / Hope, Art in Vojvodina and Serbia, Vienna, Austria2014. Excellent 5, New Moment, Belgrade2014. Serbia. Arte festival-Belgrade Now, Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns, Austria2013. Presences - Zone Illusion, Gallery le Club des Arts, Palace of The Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France2013. European Parliament, Brussels2013. Gallery Factory Art, Berlin, Germany2013. Gallery Presence, Le Club des Arts, Palais de l’Europe, Strasbourg, France2012. Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad2012.Intersections - Montenegrin Contemporary Art in the 21st century,Erarta- Contemporary Art Museum and Galleries, Sankt Petersburg, Russia2012. Intersections - Montenegrin Contemporary Art in the 21st century, NCCA- National Center for Contemporary Arts, Ekatarinburg, Russia2011. Spring Serbian Salad, Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Vienna, Austria2010. Art in Vojvodina 2000-2010, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad
2009. The Iwano Project, Museum 25.maj, Belgrade2008. Museum Night, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad2008. In (and o) transition, Gallery Zlatno oko, Novi Sad2008. In (and about) transition, Gallery of the Culture Center of Serbia, Paris, France2007. Figure, fate, comments, Gallery of Cultural Center, Belgrade2006. Contemporary Art of Novi Sad, Banat Museum, Timisoara, Romania2006. City, Art Stage, Novi Sad2005. Art clinic in the salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Of fine arts, Novi Sad2005. HUGO BOSS Ego (šk) art: New edition, Art Pavilion Flower Zuzoric, Belgrade2005. Gallery Annecy, Paris, France2005. OKVF / Östersund kunstvideofestival, Östersund, Sweden2004. Real Presence, Museum May 25, Belgrade2003. Leap in empty, Zvono Gallery, Belgrade2003. Jump into the empty, Center for visual culture Zlatno oko, Novi Sad