ANDREA IVANOVIĆ JAKŠIĆ
I have always felt an inclination to the matter, a closeness to the matter from nature.
I have always wanted to create a work that would be the real reflection of me as an inseparable part of nature.
Andrea Ivanović Jakšić graduated from the Department of painting (Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia) but she never really practiced traditional painting. In the sense of artistic media her works are hybrid art objects, between painting/drawing and sculpture/reliefe. They are ment to be phisicaly percieved as paintings – basic support of the work is canvas or paper, and they are intended for traditional wall instalments. On the other hand, the nature of Andrea’s object-paintings is extreamly non-painterly – their abstract forms are modeled out of thick material that she produces in her studio (and layers onto the support) and are bursting into tridimentional space, similar to deep reliefs.
Intuition and Philosophy
Behind Andrea’s object-paintings/drawings lays her deep intuitive relation to existance, very close to ideas of the anciant Greek philosopher Heraclitus. Among many connections to heraclitean philosophy, three main concepts are the basis of Andrea’s art: change and transformation as the only inalterable facts of existence, oppositions in permanent shifting, and the most important – inseparable unity of everything in nature. The whole world or nature is ONE regardless of infinite visible differences that exist within. Not only is man a part of nature, but he is its equivalent, so that everything produced by him/her is only a new difference in that unity.
Creative process
Creation of art is profoundly linked to Andrea’s handling of natural matter. The material of which the works are made consists of decomposed and moistened paper, mashed and applied in thick and heavy layers, and then transformed into abstract organic-like shapes. Natural materials (in other cases she uses also cotton, wood and wax) are submitted to controlled influences of natural elements – air, water and fire (moistening, drying, burning). At the same time, the created matter is shaped by extremely physical processes of hand molding, scratching, grinding, flaming, hammering. Andrea’s making of art is a long and patient process of fighting and hugging the Nature – applying her existential feelings in the very creation of art.
SHORT LIFE!
Andrea’s works from the series Short Life!, (2022-2023), highlight all the main characteristics of her art: hybrid type of art objects between painting/drawing and sculpture/relief, (semi)controlled use of natural matter (materials, elements and processes), abstract organic-like forms, creation based on intuitive approach to existence but also conceptualized in Heraclitus’ philosophy. The title comes from the phrase “Life is short!” and defines artist’s recent life energy that made the process of creation more intense, faster and powerful – almost as a ritual for feeling the inner forces of life as present and strong as possible. Lines are extremely deep and densely entangled in the artificial yet natural tissue of Andrea’s work. Forms are swelled up and bursting with matter. While mightily inscribing her trace in the fiber of nature, Andrea creates a new entity of nature within the space of art.
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