MARIJA KORUGA

BEAUTY IS NOT ENOUGH

October 5-23, 2016

Exhibition opening: Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 7pm

With distinct lightness, Marija Koruga transformed her painting and drawing impulse and temperament into a material and haptic dimension, creating a series of six highly communicative abstract works rich in colour. The structures of circular objects, their glimmer surfaces, animated with various interventions, are defined by an internal logic, which sets a completely different, yet, within the whole series, consistent compositions.

Individual works are based on colouristic reduction, monochromization of surfaces; the others, in turn, dissolve in rhythmical and dynamic relations, which the artist builds in her own way by playing with variable possibilities of overlapping in the painting that transformed from second to third dimension. She achieves this overlapping with airy transitions, emphasized accentuation and contrasting and other artistic methods.

With colour frequencies and associated interventions in the matter, these sensory images evoke in the viewer an impressive sequence of eliciting associations, identification. The artist’s need to eliminate the border between herself, the audience and the work also becomes prominent. This elimination is partly achieved by mirroring the environment on the surface of the work, which attracts attention with its carnal or organic materialness.

Precisely this segment witnesses the experimental potential of Marija’s dealing with the material, epoxy, which is susceptible to the reflections of light, an activator of perception of everything there is, and whose existence is also confirmed in the interaction with the object, body… Just as the existence of an art object is based on the interaction with its viewer and interpreter.

The mentioned topic of overlapping is especially indicative, because based on this principle the objects also overlap, that is, build upon each other, and the viewer is also encouraged to experiential and physical overlapping, i.e. to touch the work. This eliminates the sacrosanct status of the exhibited work, more precisely, the emphasis is put on its exposure, just like its witnesses witness their own exposure in different orders of real, physical, emotional, virtual and many other realities.

Barbara Vujanović

Marija Koruga was born in Zagreb in 1988. In 2012 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists. Marija lives and works in Zagreb.

She has exhibited in numerous group and several solo exhibitions.

The realization of the exhibition was financially supported by the City Office for Education, Culture and Sports of Zagreb.

 

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