Katarina Fajgelj
Katarina graduated from the ecclesiastical art program of the High School – Academy of Arts and Conservation of the Serbian Orthodox Church, majoring in fresco painting, and completed master’s studies at the Faculty of Arts in Belgrade. She also studied Visual Elements of User Interface Design at the California University of the Arts and Introduction to User Experience Principles and Processes at the University of Michigan.
She studied the expression of Romanesque and Byzantine style and from its weightless and deeply symbolic language she ever finds inspiration. In her world we all exist together, visible with the invisible, living with deceased, past with present, bodies with bodiless, plants with saints, sun with stars… Balanced fluently like a poem.
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Life Behind Art
She finds these words of Odysseas Elytis, Nobel prize winner poet, sums the aim of her art: “I consider art a source of innocence full of revolutionary forces. It is my mission to direct these forces against a world my conscience cannot accept, precisely so as to bring that world through continual metamorphoses more in harmony with my dreams. It is for this reason that I believe, to the point of idealism, that I am moving in a direction which has never been attempted until now. In the hope of obtaining a freedom from all constraints and the justice which could be identified with absolute light, I am an idolater who, without wanting to do so, arrives at Christian sainthood.”
In her previous work, she illustrated book series, textbooks, painted temples and was part of various exhibitions and art colonies in the country and abroad, as well as ecological-sacred land art projects, and she also painted murals in Serbia and Croatia. Her works are in private collections in Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, USA.
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