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Born in Zagreb, on February 5th, 1966., a teacher of fine art and have a BA in fine arts from the Zagreb [...]
Born in Zagreb, on February 5th, 1966., a teacher of fine art and have a BA in fine arts from the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, as well as an additional degree in graphic design.
Graduated in 1997, in the class of professor M. šutej, with painting as her main subject.
As an undergraduate, she participated on 1992 and 1993 group exibitions in Zagreb, in Vladimir Nazor, SC, and Gradec picture galleries.She is profesor of Fine Art in High School.
She lives and works in Zagreb.
Ana Krleza treats her paitnings as places of playful games and memories. They become imaginative and talkative picture-books, dreamy memory albums in which, artfully and with inspiration, with the feeling of joy and melancholy, she paints childhood tales and miths of long ago, of folk poetics and joyous fantasy.
Three main motives are nurtured, varied, and modified: ships, masks, and trees. Strong and metaphorical, rich and morphological potential of the motives impregnated with deep symbolism, grants them the ability of
communication and clarity, makes them evocative, as well as fluid and metaphisical. The trees are connected with the idea of constant and cyclic renewal of life, bearing the notion od fertility, mortality, and eternity; both cosmic and human.
The author handles relations between volume and space, mass and surface, ulness and emptiness in a way that she transforms the three-dimensional physical reality into the two-dimensional one.Reality and illusions are met somewhere at the edges of the painting.
Graduated in 1997, in the class of professor M. šutej, with painting as her main subject.
As an undergraduate, she participated on 1992 and 1993 group exibitions in Zagreb, in Vladimir Nazor, SC, and Gradec picture galleries.She is profesor of Fine Art in High School.
She lives and works in Zagreb.
Ana Krleza treats her paitnings as places of playful games and memories. They become imaginative and talkative picture-books, dreamy memory albums in which, artfully and with inspiration, with the feeling of joy and melancholy, she paints childhood tales and miths of long ago, of folk poetics and joyous fantasy.
Three main motives are nurtured, varied, and modified: ships, masks, and trees. Strong and metaphorical, rich and morphological potential of the motives impregnated with deep symbolism, grants them the ability of
communication and clarity, makes them evocative, as well as fluid and metaphisical. The trees are connected with the idea of constant and cyclic renewal of life, bearing the notion od fertility, mortality, and eternity; both cosmic and human.
The author handles relations between volume and space, mass and surface, ulness and emptiness in a way that she transforms the three-dimensional physical reality into the two-dimensional one.Reality and illusions are met somewhere at the edges of the painting.
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Born in Zagreb, on February 5th, 1966., a teacher of fine art and have a BA in fine arts from the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, as well as an additional degree in graphic design.
Graduated in 1997, in the class of professor M. šutej, with painting as her main subject.
As an undergraduate, she participated on 1992 and 1993 group exibitions in Zagreb, in Vladimir Nazor, SC, and Gradec picture galleries.She is profesor of Fine Art in High School.
She lives and works in Zagreb.
Artistic production of Ana Krleza uses and analyses two incongruously disimilar media. First and foremost, there was photography. After having painted with light, Ana commenced with rice paper, using it in a complex combination of various kinds of paint and applications. By the means of crushing, kasiranje (the process of dipping paper into glue and arranging it in many layers), and painting of paper on a hard surface, a genuine atmosphere of an old piece of art is invoked. Sometimes realistic, sometimes stylized, the paintings od these ships are firmly linked with their authentic historical counterparts.Thus, the name given to the exhibition itself - 'Naves Nostrum', is a geographically located segment of Croatian history.
The ships brought to us by Ana are not so volatile in their realization and techical aspect, as the scale of colours they use is distinct in a way that opens an interesting and dinamic game. In an almost ascetic repetition of theme and motives, we can read out a very subtle, yet convincing aesthetic game.Harmony of details interpolated on a static motif both puzzles and fills us with wonder; the motif which, nonetheless, does not lack the wind in its sails.
Artistic shape of Ana Krleza's works is, above all, a consequence of a poetically moved female soul, looking for a dream within the given framework of the world of facts.
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- Date of birth : 1966
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- Groups: Croatian Contemporary Artists
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BIOGRAPHY
Born in Zagreb, on February 5th, 1966., a teacher of fine art and have a BA in fine arts from the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, as well as an additional degree in graphic design.
Graduated in 1997, in the class of professor M. šutej, with painting as her main subject.
As an undergraduate, she participated on 1992 and 1993 group exibitions in Zagreb, in Vladimir Nazor, SC, and Gradec picture galleries.She is profesor of Fine Art in High School.
She lives and works in Zagreb.
Artistic production of Ana Krleza uses and analyses two incongruously disimilar media. First and foremost, there was photography. After having painted with light, Ana commenced with rice paper, using it in a complex combination of various kinds of paint and applications. By the means of crushing, kasiranje (the process of dipping paper into glue and arranging it in many layers), and painting of paper on a hard surface, a genuine atmosphere of an old piece of art is invoked. Sometimes realistic, sometimes stylized, the paintings od these ships are firmly linked with their authentic historical counterparts.Thus, the name given to the exhibition itself - 'Naves Nostrum', is a geographically located segment of Croatian history.
The ships brought to us by Ana are not so volatile in their realization and techical aspect, as the scale of colours they use is distinct in a way that opens an interesting and dinamic game. In an almost ascetic repetition of theme and motives, we can read out a very subtle, yet convincing aesthetic game.Harmony of details interpolated on a static motif both puzzles and fills us with wonder; the motif which, nonetheless, does not lack the wind in its sails.
Artistic shape of Ana Krleza's works is, above all, a consequence of a poetically moved female soul, looking for a dream within the given framework of the world of facts.
Added Nov 4, 2009
EXSPOSITIONS
Individual exhibitions:
1994, CEKAO Gallery, Zagreb - photography exibition 'Shadows Conceal Time'
1998, Ideal City Gallery, Zagreb - photograps, 'Challenge of Negation'
1999, Juraj Klovic Gallery, Rijeka - relief paintings 'Naves Nostrum'
2000, Dora Art Gallery, Varazdin - relief paintings; together with M. Kumbatovic and Lj. Buble-Dragojevic
2001, Zagreb-CEKAO Gallery, Zagreb - exhibition of masks 'The Masks'
2002, Spektar Gallery, Zagreb - paintings and sculptures; without name
2004. „Contempora“ Gallery, Zagreb – sailing ships
- trattoria „ La Storia“, Zagreb –small ships
- Brasseria restoran, Zagreb
- Stuttgart, restoran „Dalmatia“
2005. „Contempora“ Gallery – street exhibition
2005/06.- „From Atelier“ – salon „Zrinjevac“, airport Zagreb
2006. Retrospectiv – „Kristofor Stankovic“ Gallery, Zagreb
2006. Bogdan Ogrizović library, Zagreb
2006. Exibition in library „Bogdan Ogrizović“, Zagreb
2006. Exibition in „Kraš“ factory show-room, Zagreb
2007. Retrospective exibition of HDLU members, Prsten" gallery, Zagreb
2008. City Museum - Krapina, „Bau Bau“ – exibition of masks,
2008. Exibition „Naves Nostrum Nuove“, caffe - cultural centre "Zeus Faber", Zagreb.
2009. Exibition „Naves Nostrum II“ - gallery of Arsenal, Zadar.
Group exhibitions:
2000, Grad Gallery, Rijeka - 'The Mask of Croatian Painters and Sculptors'
2001, gallery of the Town's Museum of Makarska - 'Duration of Heritage', original project of M. Baricevic, together with 8 other artists
2005. Review election works of HDLU members- House of HDLU, Zagreb
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