Paper Filigree of Viktorija Janić
26 Aug 2022
By M.S.
The emergence of Viktorija Janić, a visual artist, in the Serbian art scene, represents a small yet an invaluable contribution to the genuine innovation and the expansion of program concepts of the discipline of applied arts of sculptures and paintings-installations.
Photograph: private archive
That was how the art historian Mile Isaković opened the exhibition of Viktorija Janić, “Math & art: aesthetics of calculation,” in the gallery of Chamber of commerce of Vojvodina, summarising her creative journey as a successful continuation of her creative path in the sense of reception of new tendencies in the creative process of paper art as a plastic material within the paper filigree technique. Her existing pieces display a synthesis of her talent, her attitude towards life and the world we are surrounded by in its widest sense, says Ignjatović. Her works carry the signature of a figurative choice within 3D sculptures-installations, unlike spatial installation, which rely on single or several anchoring points, as the framework of the crucially installed project. The diversity of her thematic choices are sculptures – human figure, animal shows of mythological background, birds, flora, architecture, the golden ratio, the Fibonacci number present in numerous physical, chemical and biological phenomena as well as cosmic phenomena based on the harmony of cosmic laws.
Ignjatović adds that all these elements are integrated with their fauvistic intensity of colored strips as its main building blocks, thus such approach of creative assembly upgrades the visual impression up to the actual art form.
– By intellectually shaping the primary idea, Viktorija’s filigree work strives towards giving the hidden and extended meaning to the very form, having in mind our collective awareness and, from the historical perspective, the importance of paper in the world culture and art, Ignjatović continues.
In his opinion, within such intellectual transformation of visual content her works can no longer be observed as a plain reconstruction of optical reality but rather as a “narrative installation” beset with a layered spiritual, existential and mythological symbolism:
– In the process of paper filigree materialization of 3D structures, Viktorija perceives the creative process highly personally, with the belief that art is all-encompassing, that it permeates both the visible and the invisible reality in most various aspects – via symbolical, metaphorical and metaphysical dimensions, which adds a complex conceptual context to her activity. Via her creative process of transparent assembly of paper filigree she has enabled this discipline to evolve into a sublimed form of modern tendencies in the domain of activities of applied art.
The exhibition is open until 5 Sep 2022.
