Truth is not to be found in a dream,
truth is to be found in many dreams…
Tatjana Dimitrijević takes us, on the roads of her dreamlike
intuition and mysterious dreamy visions, through the labyrinths of
unconsciousness. With dreamer’s certitude, not knowing the way, but
moving driven by a far larger force than knowledge: by intuitive
sense. That is why, for us observers and travellers on these dreams,
the experience of every such discovered interstice, in which we have
accidentally found ourselves in, is completely different, diverse.
There are no two humans that can feel the identical potential of
these spaces, passages and half-opened doors within the volume of
one dream (or many). Everyone imprints themselves in the dimension
of sleep, and the courage to reside in dreams and to believe in
dreams, is the real temptation to which we are invited by Tanja's
paintings. The temptation to drift away to unknown paths, those to
whom our consciousness does not recall, who remain deprived and who
keep the secret of meaning.
As long as there are pathfinders in this world, artists who go first
down that incomprehensible paths in search of the joy of meaning,
who then want to show us the way, so that the omniscience of our
unconsciousness could open the door to its foolishness and secrets,
the human kind cannot stray down the pitfalls of human evolution.
Even if pathfinders are few today, their power and their role are
never exhausted. They, just like vegetable seeds, can wait centuries
for the time when the essence of their prospicience and spiritual
foresight will blossom. Therefore, temptations remain only on us.
Shall we go on a path through which our spiritual knowledge grows,
on which omniscient unconscious becomes a source of comfort in
wisdom and eternity…or not. Tatjana's paintings invite us to follow
them and I'm sure we should respond.
- Borislav Čičovački
NOREN
acrylic on canvas tarpaulin, 30x165cm, 2018
the art of the boldest turns, unexpected relationships, mature,
sensitive, and childishly innocent
Starting as a 'formalist,' she infuses her formalistic education
into her explorations of free form. Art in which there's no trace of
threats or anxieties. On the contrary, Tatjana Dimitrijević strives
to surround us with a bright and tranquil atmosphere, inviting us to
engage in refined and undisturbed emotions. Some might find it
challenging to grasp Tatjana Dimitrijević's art, perhaps due to the
way she focuses her power in her work on purely visual components –
color and light, on subtle shifting relationships achieved through
various saturations and gradations of transparency and permanence,
the warm and the cold – showcasing an exceptional sensitivity to
color. Drawing strength from a fairy tale-like imagination,
memories, nostalgia, and the soil, this artistic practice holds
elements of Renaissance uniqueness in which monumentality,
melancholy, rage, and passion converge, an art that reconciles
Francesca and Pollock – with the roughness of carving the finest
messages of the human heart as well as the excitement and dramatics
of expression – all of which do not restrain the author's lyrical
nature.
- Ljubiša Dimitrijević
SILENT FREQUENCY
acrylic on canvas, 80x120cm, 2020
