My solo exhibition from 2010. now is on You Tube - finally :) „…about wind, flying and movement!“. Female wall relief with digital art on the background.
Finally I put on You Tube art
works of an solo exhibition "... about wind, flight and movement!", Set
in 2010 at Djakovo Museum, town where I live, and a month later in
Gallery "Zvonimir" in Zagreb,capital of Croatia.
This
was for me and still is a very personal exhibition. It is
autobiographical. In addition to 40 female wall reliefs, I've also made
digital editing of the same women's torso relief in Photoshop and put on
a CD as an add-on to the catalog. That was an exhibition it the
exhibition. Technically complex exhibition, I worked for a year.
Although
I was referring to the ecology and ecological catastrophe of the
Planet, which is in the concept of the exhibition, I show that on
various patterns in paper mache and experimental techniques in female
torso, the greatest inspiration of this exhibition was the personal
experience that marked my life. The torso symbolically represents my
stiff body watching the life around myself. The author of the catalog's
preface was against mentioning a serious illness due to two professional
illnesses and several cardinal doctoral mistakes, and the professional
public was not polite about my health problem, so I was silent about my
reality. But illness have defined art for lots of artists. Frida Kahlo
is the most famous
example. The disease is not shame, it is not chosen, it happens without
consent. I was shocked by the lack of empathy of society. The empathy is
only shown in public humatin projects but in personal encounters and
communications people are often the mostly - cruel! Nor are artists
perceived in the writing of the law as a professional illness, as it is
recognized in all other professions, and doctors are not sanctioned for
cardinal mistakes that have destroyed my health. I have the right to
work as I'm completely healthy, but I'm not. I do not have any benefits.
Fortunately, I have a strong spirit so I've managed to organize my life
and work, and my studio is in the house so I do not have to travel to
work. We know we do not live in a legal state. My illness is registered
as a common illness, not professional, and all the tests in the KBC OS
went wrong and after 13 months of the search they told me that Osijek
hospital is small for my case, that my search I must continued in
Zagreb, capital of Croatia where there was a bigger flow of different
professionals and more people`s. In all outpatient papers, the doctors
were contradictory in the diagnosis, but they were agree only in one
position - I have to live a sparse regime. I was left without a complete
diagnosis and without a conclusion how to treat my illness. With my
diagnosis it is impossible to travel from Djakovo - Zagreb - Djakovo 500
km, so I began reading medical books and exploring methods of
alternative medicine treatment. I've been my own doctor since 2005
although I have diploma from Textile and Fashion Design . Because of
allergy to cobalt that is a professional illness due to textile dyeing, I
have allergies to all pills because cobalt is in the traces in all
pills. That's why all the pains and discomforts I live without pills,
because if I use them I would risk anaphylactic shock - heart failure, I
do not want that. Incorrigible are the effects on my spine and the
respiratory system, and allergy to cobalt is an allergy that leads to
death. I've even lost my work ability for a few years, while pain has
led me to the brink of loss of consciousness. My body occasionally
fails. I'm aware of my spirit that I exist but I do not feel the body.
The feeling is very uncomfortable. The radius of my motion is getting
smaller. Last year in 2018, I was only getting to the city once by
formal duty, and I went to the nearby shops twice. Each time the return
to home was very painful with severe discomforts, I walked only 30-40
minutes in total. In 2010 I was last time outside of Djakovo, at this
independent exhibition in Zagreb. On the day of the exhibition opened,
my body had collapsed. Travel to Zagreb and the arrange exhibition were
enough to kick my spine. Fortunately, the friends I stayed are knew how
to help me with that situation. I'm endlessly grateful to them, you know
who you are <3
If
you think that life is difficult, be happy if your body is healthy and
functional. This torso symbolically represents my stiff body that looks
at life around, or more precisely - I watch life virtually :)
Post about this solo exhibition is here:
https://vesna-kolobaric-art.blogspot.com/2011/10/samostalna-izlozba-o-vjetru-letu-i.html
Post about this solo exhibition is here:
https://vesna-kolobaric-art.blogspot.com/2011/10/samostalna-izlozba-o-vjetru-letu-i.html
