Images of Letters
Jelena Erdeljan
Belgrade, May 2018
From time immemorial it was impossible to distinguish entirely images from letters. In principio erat Verbum. Logos incarnate is the icon of Divine Wisdom. The union of man, as an image of the Divine Creator, and Logos is mystical and eschatological. Through archetypal examples and icons of Moses or Saint John the Theologian who, having ingested a scroll, became initiated into his vision on Patmos, the Word and the Letter have been as a sign, standard and signum of the presence of the Divine among men – from Thoth and the hieroglyphs, through Prometheus, to the cryptogram that is also an icon of the eucharist, IXΘYΣ. read more
The Love Stories
Anđela Rokvić, Art Historian
August 2018
The visual world of Snežana Vujović Nikolić, the painter, is one that is delicately built, aesthetically systemized, and purified into present forms only after a lengthy, prolific, and extensive creative period. Her entire artistic opus is interwoven with eternal cosmogonic topics. The struggle of Eros against Thanatos – that erotic power which is the most potent trigger setting off the conception and the instincts of death – is the very essence of life. Eros, the mighty power that controls gods and men, is the crucial restorer of the life of universe. The result of this battle of giants and the instinct for survival and enlargement of life are lastingly chronicled on the canvases of this artist. Indissoluble unison of that dichotomy, of those antipodes, lead Vujović towards the awareness of happiness and truth, exemplified in her creative and innovative handiwork and the aura of poise that emanates from her oeuvre. read more
A VISIT BY MORPHEUS
Dr Zoja Bojic
Belgrade, May 2019
When and whom is Morpheus, the ancient Greek divinity of dreams, visiting and why? As per the painter Snežana Vujović Nikolić (born 1959, Belgrade), Morpheus is a metaphor for creative vision who visits artists and inspires them. Morpheus’s visit is unexpected and joyous. He emerges from the darkness of the mythical world continually changing his form representing different ideas. read more
A JOURNEY OF THOUGHTS OR PAINTINGS THAT TOOK ON THE APPEARANCE OF LIFE
the works of Snežana Vujović Nikolić
Marta Vukotić Lazar
September 2019
The artistic world of Snežana Vujović Nikolić that spreads in front of us gives us an idea of how different, ceaselessly incoming and outgoing, emotions and subjective experiences leave, in the inherent complexity of their synthesis, a unique personal touch on our inner life.
In this way the exhibited paintings are turning into the components of Snežana Vujović Nikolić’s personal history in which the mentioned experiences acquire a tangible structure and can be cognitively perceived. It is a virtual space in the form of a ‘primary illusion’ enveloped in virtual time, the same as music or silence, appearing as images of the time that is lived rather than the time read on the wall clock. read more
The Sentinels
Dr Zoja Bojić
August 2020.
The Sentinels by Snezana Vujovic Nikolic is a corpus of paintings, drawings and sculpture representing her personal and communal guardians. These works carry innate recognisable and identifiable primordial and archetypal meanings. The sentinels emerge from the world of myth and step into the world of reality to protect and guard us. Their appearance is sweet. Their presence is precious and soothing. As the artist herself says, “they protect us from temptation.” read more
“Zōē” – the Life
Anđela Rokvić, Art Historian
January 2020
Here in front of us is a newly selected segment from Snežana Vujović Nikolić’s life as a painter. Each of these selected works witnesses the journey of author’s personal thoughts, and all of them together create a harmonious artistic arrangement with its own distinctive history. “Zōē”, which means ‘life’ in Old Greek, has been the zenith of Snežana’s creative endeavours in the course of the previous decade. Being an organised and functional system for the flow of matter and energy, the life is an incessant metabolism. Democritus is known to have said that the main characteristic of life is that it has a soul (psyche). The emergence of life, such as the one in the Cambrian period – “the explosion of life” brought into being a colossal number of living shapes and inspired the author’s creative work. Her paintings are distinct live organisms in their own right, the instilled souls which all together form the “Zōē”. read more
OSVIT, Lidija Merenik
Who’s Afraid of Black and White
“There is a tendency to look at large pictures from a distance. The large pictures in this exhibition are intended to be seen from a short distance.”
If we cast even a cursory glance at the modern art, we shall discover, inside and around its bonds, numerous myths raised on a common foundation, that is on the discrimination of the media: from myths that take painters or the art of painting to be démodé to myths that only recognize the traditional media, like a painting, as real art and all others as naught, the case remains the same. However, there is a danger in the acquiescence of myths, it being their transformation into the criteria or factum according to which an artwork is either prized or discredited. Some artworks can clearly demonstrate that myths are not healthy: the essential-realistic content of an artwork is unrelated to the medium or technique used in its making, but close to the logic of transitivity… read more
COMPOSITIONS, Marta Vukotić Lazar
The Iconography of an Established Order of Facts
The artistic world of Snežana Vujović-Nikolić is a world of letters crystallized in shapes that continuously repeat themselves. These shapes are symbols: recurrent variations of profoundly personal messages that are arranged in such a manner so as to facilitate order and “readability.” Everything that is perceptible on her paintings – the colours, lines and compositions – has a symbolic nature… read more
THE PRINCIPAL OF IDENTITY, Milan Peca Nikolić
Principle of Identity: Common formula for the principle of identity is ‘A’ = ‘A’. The principle of identity is accepted as the highest law of thought. This formula relies on equivalence. It defines ‘A’ as the same. In this way, the common formula conceals that what is intrinsic to the principle as such, namely that each ‘A’ is the same, which means that the apposite formula for the principle of identity ‘A’ is ‘A’ does not mean only that each ‘A’ is the same, but also that each ‘A’ is the same as itself… read more
THE SENTINELS, Srđan Tunić
The creative work of Ms Snežana Vujović Nikolić the artist has been unwaveringly following the same path since the 1980s, predominantly featuring the flippancy of the expressionistic, rapid, and purified, self-disciplined, geometrised approach in the medium of classical art and the painting as an object, having a stronghold in the abstraction, as the approach… read more