Blue Composition 5 (2023) by artist Bosiljka Zirojević Lečić expands the exploration of spatial and material relationships within the Drawings series. Crafted on 27 x 20 cm semi-transparent parchment-style paper, this piece features a bold, vertical rectangle of saturated blue acrylic paint commanding the right side of the composition. Flanking it, delicate graphite lines outline open architectural and volumetric frameworks over soft blue glazes and textured white oil pastel planes. Signed on the back and offered unframed, this artwork can stand as a powerful individual piece or be paired as part of a diptych/polyptych, exemplifying a refined balance between geometric order and delicate material transparency.
The series includes drawings where analytical relationships towards the essential elements of pictorial plastic creativity are dominant: surface, line, color, matter and material; geometry functions as a framework within which the possibility of dealing with the surface/surfaces as the basic problem of painting.
Several combined painting and drawing methods and procedures were applied: glaze underpainting, applying paint in several layers, combining watercolors, acrylic paints, oil pastels and drawings. Each separate surface in these geometric paintings has its own autonomy, its color and plastic integrity, and their harmony tends to create a compact whole in which all relations are well balanced and leave an impression of order, harmony and concord.
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Contemporary Artwork on Paper - Blue Composition 5, 2023. By Bosiljka Zirojevic
Blue Composition 5, 2023
From Drawing Series
Mixed media on semi-transparent industrial paper.
Dimensions:
Overall size: 10,6 H x 15.8 W x 1.5 D in.
Individual size: 10.6 H x 7.9 W x 1.5 D in.
Signed on the back by the artist
She graduated with a B.A. from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in 1994, specializing in the Painting Department. She later completed her postgraduate studies (M.A.) in the same department, graduating from the academy in 2000. That same year, she began working at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad within the Department of Fine and Applied Arts. Currently, she serves as a Professor at the institution.
She has been a member of both the Association of Fine Arts in Vojvodina (ULUV) and the Serbian Association of Fine Arts (ULUS) since 1995. Additionally, she belongs to the art group Multiflex, where she collaborates with fellow artists on multimedia projects. Since 2022, she has also served as a permanent curator at the "Mitar Subotić Suba" Foundation.
Since 1992, she has participated in over 150 group exhibitions regionally and internationally, spanning countries such as Serbia, Poland, Italy, China, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Great Britain, Austria, and France. Numerous fine arts critics have nominated her in various national artist selections within the contemporary art scene.
Throughout her career, she has held 27 solo exhibitions and received several awards for her work. These honors include the Special Award at the 6th "Salon for the Young Artists" Exhibition (Serbia, 1998) and the Annual Award for the best solo exhibition in the Gallery of the I. M. Kolarac Foundation in Belgrade (Serbia, 2001). That same year, she won an award at the 30th Artistic October Salon in Novi Sad. She went on to win awards at the 10th Exhibition of Drawings (Serbia, 2003) and the "30x30" Exhibition (Serbia, 2009). In 2011, she received the jury award at the 27th International Short Film Festival in Germany with the art group Multiflex, followed by the "Milivoj Nikolajevic" Award (Serbia, 2016).
She has coordinated numerous projects in art and education, while also participating in many international symposiums and conferences. Furthermore, she has served on several faculty and university boards, as well as councils for multiple art galleries.
Her academic work focuses on researching traditional and new visual media, exploring their parallels and intersections. The relationship between internal and external space is her primary field of exploration, where she examines the possibilities of expression and abstraction through diverse disciplines, including art, ecology, urbanism, and visual culture.
