Exhibition: Nina Atević Murtić - OPEN CYCLE

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The exhibition Open Cycle by Nina Atević Murtić presents a new cycle of paintings by one of the most prominent representatives of contemporary colourist abstraction. In her painting, the canvas becomes a place of introspection and dialogue – a space where gesture, colour, and space merge into a meditative act, simultaneously calm and eruptive.

Atević Murtić belongs to that group of painters who approach the canvas with an almost ritual respect for the process: her act of painting resembles a prayer, a meditation, and the rapid transcription of an unrepeatable emotion. Colour is her main means of expression – a source of light, energy, and spiritual tension. “Process on a basic level… emanation space, gesture, form, colour – response. Space as a place of events – of dialogue,” the artist has written.

In her new series of works, the artist expands her already recognisable language of blue tones into more complex chromatic structures. She moves between turquoise, indigo, lavender, emerald, and pink – juxtaposing them with grey and dark tones in search of a balance between light and anxiety. In this encounter of colours and gestures, her “dialogue with the canvas” unfolds, a space of inner meditation and intuitive movement.

Art critic Iva Körbler emphasizes that “the painting of Nina Atević Murtić, despite delicate transformations, arises from the tradition of lyrical and colourist abstraction, but also from the calligraphic dimension of haiku drawing.” This is precisely why her paintings function like visual mantras – inviting the viewer to find their own moment of balance and silence within colour and gesture.

Open Cycle introduces us to a world in which every painting is a new beginning – an open cycle of creation, breathing, and self-recognition within layers of colour.

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Gallery opening hours:
Every day from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM, except Sundays and public holidays.

Free admission