Exhibition of Marija Svetieva (celebrating 25 years of artistic creativity)

At the very first meeting with art, our artist Marija Svetieva (celebrating 25 years of artistic creativity this year) does not look for recognition and does not offer a recollection. Her every move, whether deliberate or not, realizes the whole vision, and that, in turn, may be considered justified and possible, or to be experienced as a set of meta-figural forms.

In any case, it is a mastered skill for the painting techniques, and the courage and the anthological selection of sensitivity is a condition that creates the Faustian adventure, only personally and independently, without anyone’s mediation.

Her art is the experiencing of life through innocent associative presentations, micro-conditions, temporal and extra-temporal, so as all of it to become a rescue of the lasting from oblivion, i.e., to create a mildness that does not recognize loss and destruction. This means that such kind of art is created that captures us magically, an art that stirs us from within and builds hope. This is an open art of endless inventiveness, melodic palettes and humane messages, while the copious freedom captivates us with magical force in the game of the spirit.

Marija Svetieva creates a surreal world made of tangible data from the personal surroundings, at the same time mystifying the reality as far as entering the sphere of recognition of the artistic, for which the artist rejoices in the act of creation, surpassing at the same time the sense of loneliness and desolation, thus rightfully granting this work the epithet “healing”.

The works of this artist bring joy and revitalization, they charm us with the joy of life and harmony born of a story-teller of small-big things. We follow a lyrical catharsis, beauty of thought and its emotion. A precise gesture of the drawing, which is an extension and clarification of the content of the thought, i.e., the dream-story. A strong artistic and lyrical adventure, sensitive suggestions, visualization and poetics in conjuncture with the artistic gesture.

Ljupco Malenkov

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MARIJA SVETIEVA

Marija Svetieva MA in Fine Arts, was born in Skopje, in 1960. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Graphics and Graphic Design in 1987. The same year she became a member of the Macedonian Painters Association. Obtaining a scholarship, in 1990 she specialized graphics in Bologna, Italy. In 1991, she become a member of the International Graphic Artists Association in Rome and the International Journalist Association in Rome. In the period 1992 – 1996, she managed the film production company Farfara Anstalt in Rome. She has visited many film centres in Europe, America and Africa and has written for the Czech film magazine Premiera, as well as for the Macedonian magazines: Zhena, Puls, Mlad Borec, Forum, Utrinski Vesnik, Horoskop and Portal. In 2000, she used the art studio of the International City of Arts in Paris. In 2004, she graduated from the Faculty of Education in Skopje, teaching department.

Address: Marija Svetieva
25/10 Atinska str.
1000 Skopje
Tel. No. ++389 (0) 70 234 713

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITION

1988 Macedonian Museum, Skopje
Museum and Gallery, Bitola
A Gallery, Zagreb

1989 Cultural Center Belgrade
Art Gallery, Kumanovo
Cultural Center, Ohrid

1991 ARM Gallery, Skopje
Youth Center, Prishtina
Cultural Center, Pech
Art Gallery, Prizren

1992 International Graphic Center, Rome
Notagen Gallery, Rome
Slovenian Culture Center, Prague
Forum Hotel, Prague

1994 Due Rote Gallery, Vicenza
Cultural and Informative Center, Skopje

2000 Macedonian Painters Association, Skopje
D+ Gallery, Prague

2001 Nuova Tirena, Rome
Planet Calabria, Rome

2000 St. George, Struga

2001 Art Gallery, Prague

2002 Gilardoni Studio, Lugano

2002 For Macedonian love poetry, Cultural and Informative Center, Skopje
Macedonian Painters Association, Skopje

2003 J&T Gallery, Malmo
Una, Bajared

2007 Cultural and Informative Center, Skopje

2009 Li Café, Skopje Cultural and Informative Center, Skopje (with Simonida Filipova Kitanovska)

2010 Cultural and Informative Center, Skopje (with Andrijana Nachevska)

2010 MA work of art in the Macedonian Painters Association, Skopje
White Nights, Kora, Skopje

2011 University Gallery of Vranje, Serbia
European House of Nish, Serbia
GZM, Split, Croatia

2012 Prima Center, Berlin

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
In the period 1987 – 2012, Marija Svetieva has participated in 188 exhibitions throughout Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Russia, Thailad, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, etc.

PRIZES
She has won nine prizes for graphics and two for two paintings in Macedonia, Sweden, France, Italy.