Exhibition opening this evening from 21h.
Group exhibition "Belief" is extended until January 31

Introspection, withdrawal, fragility.

Magnetic dialogue between the figure and the space, namely inner dialogue.

Confrontation with oneself, with pain and memories.

Play of plains in the space and juxtaposition of organic and artificial, expressive and precise elements are making a special atmosphere within the painting.

Likewise in my other works, the space reflects the inner state of the figure.

My Lady of the Various Sorrows, 2013 Oil on canvas 143x190cm

 The work is going to be exhibited at the group exhibition "Belief" from 30th November 2014-4th January 2015 in Magicum Museum Berlin, Grosse Hamburgerstr.17

Opening on 29th November from 21h.

Some new small-sized works from my studio

Useful Experience, 2014 Oil on canvas 30x40cm

All by Myself, 2014 Oil on canvas 50x40cm

David Lynch- Ghost of Love

Besides his movies I like and my favourite series of all times "Twin Peaks", David Lynch keeps inspiring me with his music, as well. This song definitely touches my nerve and it's dreamy but yet uneasy quality is very close to my sensibility. Makes me drown deeper and deeper into myself, to the unforeseen depths...

My dear friend Dragana Nikolic won the Special Young Designer Award for her design of Collected Poems by Wisława Szymborska and Tadeusz Różewicz at the 59th Belgrade Book Fair. Take a look at her beautiful design!

Dreamy Shelter

Dreamy Shelter, 2014 Oil on canvas 105x140cm

Supercool Society and the Little Girl's Scream, 2014

Oil on canvas, 105x140cm

Lovely Infatuation

Lovely Infatuation, 2014 Oil on canvas 105x140cm

One of my newest works: The Unbearable Lightness

The Unbearable Lightness, 2014 Oil on canvas 105x140cm

Turning Demons into White Balloons

Turning Demons into White Balloons, 2013 Oil on canvas 150x200cm

The keywords for understanding artists!

"I think it's impossible for a man to write, unless two conditions are met: he either has to be extremely ambitious, which I'm not, or he has to have been through a very hard time. He has to either want to get his revenge against someone, or to make a confession, to scream into an empty space about something that is hurting him."

Meša Selimović

Photographs from my studio while working. Copyrights© and thanks to Reza Daie

 

Text about my works "Human Observation" #The Wall Breakers
Thank you Daniel Dunt & The Wall Breakers!

is a Berlin-based Serbian artist who focuses on human beings and human relations in her work. “I am observing them from different perspectives and making my own, nuanced take.”
Tijana’s work is, in most cases, very colorful and slightly abstract. Her almost messy approach to working is her signature, and it always gives her the ability to present intriguing outcomes. Also, men and women are often placed in slightly surreal landscapes, giving Titin’s work a dream-like quality.
- See more at: http://thewallbreakers.com/human-observation-berlin-based-serbian-painter-tijana-titin/#sthash.T2rzY4mB.dpuf

Tijana Titin is a Berlin-based Serbian artist who focuses on human beings and human relations in her work. “I am observing them from different perspectives and making my own, nuanced take.”
Tijana’s work is, in most cases, very colorful and slightly abstract. Her almost messy approach to working is her signature, and it always gives her the ability to present intriguing outcomes. Also, men and women are often placed in slightly surreal landscapes, giving Titin’s work a dream-like quality.
You can view more of Tijana Titin’s work through Saatchi Art, where you can also purchase originals and prints.

- See more at: http://thewallbreakers.com/human-observation-berlin-based-serbian-painter-tijana-titin/#sthash.T2rzY4mB.dpuf

Tijana Titin is a Berlin-based Serbian artist who focuses on human beings and human relations in her work. “I am observing them from different perspectives and making my own, nuanced take.”
Tijana’s work is, in most cases, very colorful and slightly abstract. Her almost messy approach to working is her signature, and it always gives her the ability to present intriguing outcomes. Also, men and women are often placed in slightly surreal landscapes, giving Titin’s work a dream-like quality.
You can view more of Tijana Titin’s work through Saatchi Art, where you can also purchase originals and prints.
- See more at: http://thewallbreakers.com/human-observation-berlin-based-serbian-painter-tijana-titin/#sthash.T2rzY4mB.dpuf

Tijana Titin is a Berlin-based Serbian artist who focuses on human beings and human relations in her work. “I am observing them from different perspectives and making my own, nuanced take.”
Tijana’s work is, in most cases, very colorful and slightly abstract. Her almost messy approach to working is her signature, and it always gives her the ability to present intriguing outcomes. Also, men and women are often placed in slightly surreal landscapes, giving Titin’s work a dream-like quality.
You can view more of Tijana Titin’s work through Saatchi Art, where you can also purchase originals and prints.
- See more at: http://thewallbreakers.com/human-observation-berlin-based-serbian-painter-tijana-titin/#sthash.T2rzY4mB.dpuf

Mind Travel, 2013. Oil on canvas, 150x200cm

Strawberry Fields, 2014. Oil on canvas, 70x70cm

One of the works from the new series of paintings, now in a private collection in Hong Kong

Voices of the Light Breeze, 2014. Oil on canvas 70x70cm

Dear readers,
my home country Serbia and Bosnia are heavily affected by flooding.
Rainfall in Bosnia and Serbia was the heaviest in 120 years of recorded weather measurements. By 20 May, at least 48 people had died as a result of the flooding, and 30,873 people in Serbia alone have been forced from their homes. You can read more here and #SerbiaFloods.

Please support and help raise awareness!

 

One month visiting professorship at China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou. I was giving lessons at the CDK (Chinesisch-Deutsche Kunstakademie) Department of Oil Painting (油畫系).
Encounter of different cultures, mentalities, as well as approaches to the art. The experience to remember!

During my stay, we organized closing exhibition of the first year's master students in the Moca Westlake Gallery.

The final exhibition of the first year Master’s students of the Chinese-German Academy of Art (CDK) shows different artistic positions. The special orientation of the CDK allows students an exciting interplay between the traditional and Western art, culture and the mindset. As a result, there is a new, “a third position", which is full of opportunities. This exhibition displays artistic positions of the twelve students who are in the search of their own visual language.

On the one hand, we see a development of the painterly possibilities which are coming out of figuration, as well as lyrical abstract approaches on the other hand.
In the discourse of culturally different spatial and conceptual models, as well as different pictorial traditions, here are appearing interesting approaches to work for the students. The exhibition enables young artists an overview of the accomplishments in the first Academic year and is a further step towards professionalization and self-reflection.

Introduction in Chinese and German

Artists: Cao Yu, Guo Runi, Guo Xiaojing, Han Jin, Li Fengrui, Liang Xiao, Peng Junyi, Pan Xiaoqian, Pei Yu, Sun Yuxiu, Shu Ye, Yu Qiushi
Academic Host: Burkhard Held, Tijana Titin
Art Director: Tong Yanrunan
Curator: Tijana Titin
Assistants: Peng Junyi, Yu Qiushi
Exhibition 25.4- 3.5.2014 Moca Westlake Gallery, Hangzhou

Guo Xiaojing

Liang Xiao (left) and Shu Ye (right)

Pan Xiaoqian

Works by Li Fengrui

Work by Pei YU

The first year's master students in front of works by Yu Qiushi

Gallery entrance and the work by Sun Yuxiu

Ten am is when you come to me.
Inspiring drawings by Louise Bourgeois!

...and Duende in my works the last years...

 

Fields of Dreams, 2013. Oil on canvas, 160x200cm

 

 

Red Touch of Poetry, 2012. Oil on canvas, 162x197cm

Obscure Swinging, 2010. Oil on canvas, 40x50cm

Let Go II, 2011. Oil on canvas, 95x115cm

Mortal Game, 2009. Oil on canvas, 200x300cm

More on Duende

Mentioning the book of poems "Duende" yesterday, reminded me on another interesting book, namely "Kunst und Leben, Mythen und Tod", Ein Streitgespräch. Recommend! Very interesting conversation between Anselm Kiefer, Mathias Döpfner and Manfred Bissinger.
Here is a part of it:


BISSINGER In Mathias Dopfner Book  Die Freiheitsfalle can be read : "The two primal motives of art are God and a woman. In both cases the point is overcoming the fear of death. On the run from the death one becomes a hermit, the other ecstatic. But the only one who has a chance at least, to be successful at that running away is the artist. A drive for his work, whether he admits it or not, is the hope of immortality."

KIEFER Well, immortality can be a motivation, but it is superficial like most motivations. It has usually not much to do with the result. I am not running away from my death, but rather  at the moment I am doing something that I think managed to be real, when it is like an ecstasy, then I could say : "Now I can even die ." This is the opposite of running away. Roughly speaking: at the moment when it is the most beautiful , I might as well die.

DOPFNER  Moments that are beautiful to die for, I also know. Garcia Lorca had meant it by the term "Duende ". Duende is a moment of maximal concentration, perfection and beauty. The total merger. Lorca describes Duende mainly in bullfighting and flamenco. Duende can be anywhere where art meets life.

(in original)
BISSINGER In Mathias Döpfners Buch Die Freiheitsfalle ist nachzulesen: "Zwei Urmotive der Kunst sind Gott und Weib. In beiden Fällen geht es darum, die Angst vor dem Tod zu überwinden. Auf der Flucht vor dem Tod wird der eine Eremit, der andere Ekstatiker. Der einzige aber, der beim Davonrennen zumindest eine Chance hat, erfolgreich zu sein, ist der Künstler. Ein antrieb für sein Werk ist, ob er es zugibt oder nicht, die Hoffnung auf Unsterblichkeit."

KIEFER Na ja, Unsterblichkeit, das kann eine Motivation sein, aber sie ist oberflächlich wie die meisten Motivationen. Sie hat mit dem Ergebnis meist nicht viel zu tun. Ich renne nicht vor meinem Tod davon, sondern in dem Moment, wo ich etwas mache, das ich für wirklich gelungen halte, wenn es wie eine Ekstase ist, dann könte ich sagen: "Jetzt kann ich auch sterben." Das ist das Gegenteil von Wegrennen. Salopp gesagt: In dem Moment, in dem es am schönsten ist, könnte ich auch sterben.

DÖPFNER Momente, die zum Sterben schön sind, kenne ich auch. Garcia Lorca hat das mit dem Begriff "Duende" gemeint. "Duende" ist ein Moment maximaler Konzentration, Perfektion und Schönheit. Die totale Verschmelzung. Duende beschreibt Lorca vor allem in Stierkampf und im Flamenco. Duende kann es überall geben, wo Kunst das Leben trifft. 

Photo by a young, talented photographer in my studio - copyright ©Tatjana Jule Schenk.

Painting: Fields of Dreams, 2013.

 

Inspiring book of poems "Duende" by Tracy K. Smith

History

Prologue

This is a poem about the itch
That stirs a nation at night.

This is a poem about all we'll do
Not to scratch-

Where fatigue is great, the mind
Will invent entire stories to protect sleep.

Dark stories. Deep fright.
Syntax of nonsense.

Our prone shape has slept a long time.
Our night, many nights.

This is a story in the poem's own voice.
This is epic.

Part Three: Occupation

(Excerpt)

Every poem is the story of itself.
Pure conflict. Its own undoing.
Breeze of dreams, then certain death.