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Artist Exhibitions:
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Joy Pastel Series, Po Bota
Gallery, Split, Croatia,
August 2002.
Mater Magna Pastel Series,
Alfa Gallery, Split, Croatia,
1992.
Mater Magna Pastel Series,
Art Gallery, Split, Croatia,
1992.
Mater Magna Printmaking
Series, Art Guard - Croatian
Arts Society, Protiron
Gallery, Split, Croatia,
1992.
Mater Magna Pastel Series,
Zvono...
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Artist Reviews:
“ Sonja Svete is, as this
exhibition is witnessing, a
sophisticated and enlightened
creator who has accepted and
realized the values of the
must – less is more.”
“We are talking about
paintings of women nudes,
better to say nameless torso’s
and body fragments made in the
manner of
figurative-abstract...
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Artist Statement for Sonja Svete
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The form as a dwelling of human spirit. Primary medium: soft pastels on paper. Figurative-abstract transactions made in very controlled manner. Colors are very personal, drawing is cleaned of all unfunctional details.
My first pastel series was born during last year of studying fine arts like the fastest way to catch the idea of form for latter printmaking. These were static human figures captured in circle form, representing complex emotions. I named that Series 'Mater Magna' because of the obvious archetypes this forms represented. With time they lost that symbolic meaning and eventually become just abstract body fragments, with my interest more focused on the correlation between shapes and colours.
With time that evolved in this last Series I named 'Joie de Vivre' or just 'Joy' (of Life). In the same technique and manner, these stylized figures are liberated of their symbolic meanings or complex psychological heritage. They now exist in the space of colors - they attend to just be in it and be it at the same time. Here all my previous endeavors evolved in unrecognizable, abstract forms expanding in space.
Finally, feeling of the human spirit being set free.
Secondary medium: acrylic painted reliefs in cardboard or wood.
Few different layers, with flat coloured surfaces contrasting textured one. Texture: acrylic modeling paste.
Born 1965 in Split, Croatia. After finishing Art High School in Split, studied for some time Technical College. In 1991 graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the same time studied philosophy and sociology at the University in Sarajevo for some time.
Live in New York and Split.
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