ANDREJA PROKOPIJEVIC SCULPTURES AND DRAWINGS
Ballet pointe-shoes SCULPTURES
Andreja Prokopijevic has drawn inspiration from her long-term training in various dance styles, at first classical ballet, and then modern dance. In her sculptures, the movement is frozen. Relying on her artistic intuition, she succeeds in conveying all the dramatic tension, the theatrical aspect of the ballet movement, arduous work and self-discipline it requires. Andreja combines seemingly irreconcilable things-the rough texture of iron, unsightly and sensual at the same time, with the sophisticated satin. The raggedness of object is illustrative of the vulnerability and limited duration. The object is understood as a phenomenon which reduces the universal to the particular, a historical fact to a subjective experience. It is a catalyst between time and man, between a sculpture and space in which it exists. It carries multiple meanings. It is a sign of the times, a subjective expression, and at the very same time – a visual form and psychological symbol. The artist has created the subtle interplay between light and shadow, balance and imbalance, mass and void, abrupt endings and sudden urges. The unadorned sculptures are completely freed from mimetic demands. Dance can be regarded as a way to transcend the material world, an expression of one’s spiritual life. Dance can also be interpreted as a symbol of the fight, the fight against death, adversity, but also against oneself, one’s fears, weaknesses and doubts. Sculptures from this series were granted as an award at the Belgrade Dance Festival to famous choreographers Sharon Eyal and Dimitris Papaioannou in the Belgrade City Hall by the Prime Minister of Serbia Ana Brnabic. These art-works are presented at the Art People Gallery platform from San Francisco.
Motion: space in-between SCULPTURES
Synthesis of infinity 2016 inox, plexiglass 100x160x10 cm
Phenomenology of motion 2016 inox, plexiglass, metal 97x95x33 cm
Sculpture for Belgrade Dance Festival choreography award granted to Jiri Kylian 2016 inox, marble stone 60x55x40 cm
Motion 14 2017 inox, marble stone, plexiglass, wood 57,5x67x45 cm
Balance and Dynamics 2018 metal, plexiglass, wood 57,5x67x45 cm
The Dynamic of Personal Space DRAWINGS
Remade Function 2019 mix media 50x50 cm
Acceleration 2018 mix media 25x25 cm
Motion 1888 2017 mix media 100x100 cm
Rhythmic and Dynamics 2019 mix media 200x50 cm
Intrinsic kinetic 2017 mix media 70x50 cm
Blue kinetic 2017 mix media 70x50 cm