MAJA MARKOVIĆ

The Happening, 2009, drawing, pencil, wood color and self-adhesive foil on paper, 1000x700mm

"The Happening" (100x70cm, 200x130cm) is a series of drawings with depicting scenes where I can not specify the time and place. Images come from my vague memories: the landscape of events is fixed, and movement of clouds and changes in light indicate distorted perception of time.The event is again each time: there is uncertainty of the following scene. My aim is to reconstruct the kind of anxiety we feel in our dreams.

Outline specified architecture (scenes) is in service of the sudden separation of plans, while space remains between the planar and strong perspective. At the same time, inserted black silhouettes of people and

dogs are in the function of approaching the scene to "real". Architecture is unnaturally combined with nature (in the construction of new suburbs, abandoned houses, industrial buildings ...).These drawing are my continuing preoccupation with plans and maps, as well as my interest in architecture, set-spaces that contain uncertainty and indefinite (imaginary) time...

Maja Markovic has completed her education at School Of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb in 1999. In 1999. she enrolled Fine Arts Academy in Zagreb. She was granted with CEEPUS Student Exchange Stipendy for spending three months in Ljubljana at the Fine Arts Academy (Design department in the class of prof. I. Paik). Currently she is completing her studies at Fine Arts Academy in Zagreb, in the Class of Painting (prof. Ante Rasic). She was born 1979. in Zagreb. She is a memeber of Croatian Association Of Artists and Croatian Freelance Artists Association. Lives and works in Zagreb.

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