Invitation to the Art Exhibition of NINA SUMARAC Jablonsky“UNINTERRUPTED STARE: smallworks” at THISEAS GALLERY.Limassol 6-16 June 2014
Opening Friday 6th June at 7:30 pm by Mr S.Djurica, Ambassador of Serbia.
We kindle asking people with good intentions if they can please bring on the opening a small thing from any things listed in the text under; or packet optionally. We will be happy to pack and organize to be send to The Red Cross , Serbia.
We know the times are difficult for everyone, but your small contribution can be huge for someone in need!
15% any profits from the exhibition also will be donated.
Gallery open every day 11-13h & 17-19h
9,Thiseos st., 3026 Limassol
contact Akos Avraam:99674243
Nina Sumarac:99852123
Dear friends,
As you must have learn by now, catastrophic floods have devastated Serbia the last few days. In order to understand the magnitude of this tragedy, please note the attached photo. To put it in words: – the total flooded area in Serbia is about 9100 square kilometres!
– the total area of the whole Cyprus is about 9250 square kilometres!
In coordination with the Embassy of Serbia in Nicosia, we are trying to collect the humanitarian aid to be sent to Serbia. The response of our friends in Cyprus is huge and we are grateful for all their help. But, we are still in need of the following goods:
– diapers for babies and adults
– baby canned food
– personal hygiene items
-items for personal hygiene : soap, toilet paper, paper towels, hygienic pads, tooth brushes, tooth paste
Please contact me if you have any question or wish to donate something right away. You can also contact following people:
Limassol – Aleksandar Grbic 99857726
Nicosia – Dragana Ljubicic 97776494
Paphos – Marijana Milojevic 99112218
Paralimni – Mira Siokourou Ex Majstorovic 99454548
Larnaca – Snezana Radovic Grkovic 99091591
Inspired by the poem the cut, by Mika Antic
I will steal your shadow, put it on myself and
show it to everybody. You will be my way of dressing
all tender and secret. And even then, when
become worn, tattered, faded, I will not
take it off . On me you will decompose.
Because you are the only way to cover the nakedness of
this childish soul. And I will no longer be ashamed in front of
plants and birds.
On the ragged places together we will cry.
I’ll sew you up with the wind. Later, I know, I’ll confuse
my skin with yours. I do not know whether you
realize: it is not permeation.
It is being washed with you .
Love is to be cleaned with someone. Love is someone’s
scent, completely embroidered on us.
Tattooing by imagination.
Here, getting dark, and the world grows colder.
You are my way of warm. I will put you on
so that, so ebullient, I don’t catch a cold from
chill of my fear and loneliness.
In her new series of charcoal drawings of seated people Nina Sumarac expresses gestures that speak about how she looks at the world from her own reality, a different reality, which often seems susceptible, bizarre and mysterious.
The artist is the outsider. The observer. The voyeur who appears engrossed in the subject in front of her, enjoying a moment of peace and solitude, seemingly undesired to be stared back at — especially since she deliberately leaves the subjects almost faceless. Normally, when you look at a portrait you look at the eyes and the face which are the most expressive. However, in this series she wants to rob the viewer of that intimacy and to make her work more mysterious and surreal. She concentrates on the body language to be communicative without the distraction of the eyes.
The portraits as such become the embodiment of her mind’s eye, open to be interpreted without the subject’s own facial expression to dictate the mood. In each drawing, the freedom of the figurative is juxtaposed with a modern abstract. The artist seems to work from a non-thoughtful flow of lines and gestures where she surrenders to her own inner emotion creating an inexhaustible rhythmic narration. She does this through expressive and intricate set of recurring patterns or marks, making a connection between the visual and the physical experience.
In her work, the Serbian artist Nina Sumarac illustrates the complex imagery of subconscious visions in a neo-surrealistic manner, which is an amalgamation of symbolism, conceptual thoughts, philosophical views, fantasies and dreams. She depicts aspects of human and societal relationships through expressively distorted figures, encompassing a broad range of emotional states. She brings to the work her personal sensibilities and experiences — often unflinchingly portraying the demons that she harbors, in the hope that by doing so she may transcend the dangers that threaten her from within .”
Tatiana Ferahian MLS
www.ninasumarac.com
still from short film “Trip To The Moon 2″2009 by Nicos Synnos *toonachunks*
about Nina Sumarac Jablonsky
Is a Serbian-born painter living and working in Cyprus for the past 14 years. She holds a Master in Mechanical engineering at the Belgrade Polytechnic University for New Technologies in Serbia. She continued her studies taking up the 2-year course in Painting with Open College of the Arts of Buckinghamshire New University, UK and 2010 she finish with Postgraduate diploma in Fine Art at Cyprus College of Art .From 2001 Nina Sumarac Jablonsky had eight solo exhibitions and has participated in a great number of group exhibitions in Cyprus, Serbia and Europe, evolving into an acclaimed painter both locally and internationally. She has developed a very personal and distinct style by delving deep into subconscious visions, which she merges with conceptual reflections of reality in order to reveal the very quintessence of each human being, portrayed in a penetrative and revealing fragmentation. Nina Sumarac Jablonsky, is a member of the E.Ka.T.E.Cyprus Chamber of Fine Art, “Uros Predic” Association of painters and sculptors Switzerland and member of ULUPDS -The Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia. She has also had significant experience in film and animation production. Work in animation and illustration left profound impact with which she build her unique recognizable style. Furthermore, she is also actively involved in the cultural life of Limassol having offered curatorial contribution in art exhibitions that have taken place in the city..
Dr. Nadia Anaxagorou MA& MLS, Cultural director of the Limasol Municipality
