The Hollow Men

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Directorate of Young Artists Biennale of Europe and Mediterranean (BJCEM), headed by artistic director Andrea Bruciati, art historian, selected her work The Hollow Men to represent Montenegro in the event Mediterranea XVII Young Artists Biennale in Milano, 2015.
September 2015 she had a solo exhibition called The Hollow Men-Burning Way in the the Kolarac Foundation Gallery in Belgrade.
Also, she had a solo exhibition The Hollow Men-Burning Way in a former factory hall Radoje Dakić, in Podgorica, as a part of celebration of 30th anniversary of FIAT in September 2015.
May 2015 she had a solo exhibition in Association of Fine and Applied Artists in Kraljevo and she had a solo exhibition Burning Way in Shooting Association
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However, prior to analytical approach of the interpretation of the exhibition I would like to emphasize a crucial thing, which is, that this exhibition does not represent illustration of literary work; it represents a creative freedom of an artist whose visual vocabulary, used as a mean for expressing her own thoughts, her emotional and spiritual world, is coloured by strong individual …show more content…
What subtle spiritual threads have connected her with the poem? It is not only about using the title of poem ‘’The Hollow Men’’ and its content , but it is more about the deeper sense of meaning which she discovered by the author, through visual characteristics of his poetic language and his personal attitude of the world in which dominates empty, Hollow Men, the world in which love and respect vanish and only a grotesque play remains. In his concept of ideas Elliot is relying on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Joseph Conrad’s book Heart of Darkness finding in them psychological and sociologic elements close to his own world. Ivana Radovanovic builts on the progressive continuum of those books with her sculptures presented on exhibition ‘’Hollow Men’’, based on simultaneity of past, present and

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