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21/1/2006

Jelena Tomasevic

Jane Kim Thrust Projects, New York

Joy of Life II

Reality under the stuffy cover of “art"… No trick cheeky enough, no exciting techniques, no effects strong enough… (JT)

Thrust Projects is thrilled to present a solo exhibition of new work by Jelena Tomasevic, opening Sunday, January 22, 2006 through March 14, 2006. Entitled Joy Of Life II, the show is the suite to Joy of Life, a series of paintings exhibited in the Serbia/Montenegro Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennial

Jelena Tomasevic’s twenty or so paintings of figures, interiors, and architectural models are taken from her personal photographic archive, magazines, and newspapers. The canvases, each approximately 35 x 31 inches, are hung flat on the wall, and the effect is an installation of individual storyboards.

Intimate scenes of home are placed next to figures walking in public; in one painting a man with an electrical cord around his neck is joined by a woman staring nonchalantly out at the viewer. Death and life, darkness and light, happiness and sadness exist side by side. Tomasevic places opposing situations together to create a new reality and challenge conservative Balkan tradition.

Jelena Tomasevic is part of a new generation of female artists from Montenegro/Serbia, a region undergoing reconstruction after being heavily marked by war and political turmoil. Born in 1974 in Podgorica, Montenegro, she graduated from the School of Fine Arts, Cetinje, Montenegro. Her work been has been shown in several museums: the Kunstalle Fridericianum Kassel, Germany, with In the Gorges of the Balkans, Il Bienal de Jafre, Jafre (Girona), Spain, and the Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Germany, with Montenegrin Beauty. She will participate in the upcoming Sydney Bienniale, Zones of Contact (June 2006).

Opening Sunday, January 22nd: 6 - 9 pm

Thrust Projects
114 Bowery - New York

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