Jelena Papović

The Path In To the Painting

Jelena Papovic
Sometime in the early '80. in an old Mediterranean town called Budva, a young girl dreams about distant worlds, journeys, circus tents, the trapeze, acrobats, fire eaters and walking on the tightrope.

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL!

Nothing has really become of all of those dreams until now. The world is still big and she is about to conquer it.

Little Jelena did not realize that it is possible to conquer the world by painting.

She sketches using her imagination (some of these sketches still exist) and she hopes that one beautiful day a circus will arrive in the old town of Budva and she will leave with them as one of the acrobats to a far away world.

These dreams are not typical of a small girl living by the sea neither of a small boy, as they dream about the sea, ships and distant lands.

Jelena lives by the sea but dreams about the circus and draws strange fish, dolphins, octopuses, sea urchins and star fish, and she grows up.

Jelena PapovicShe learns to play the piano, grows up even more and realizes life is very complicated and that the circus will not have a great influence on her further journey.
After school, Jelena's dreams of a long journey come partly true. She moves to Belgrade to continue her education and temporarily leaves the sea behind her. The further she is from the sea, however, the more it churns inside her.

Jelena dreams of the old town, storms, and dolphins all the time she is in windy Belgrade.

She finishes her studies in Cetinje and finally realizes that all her later journeys: trips to Venice and some other big cities are not as important as the journey inside her, the journey through painting.

Her fascination with the human form which since early childhood was connected to the circus and her great love of the sea floods from her on to the canvas and directly to the outside world.

Music which she enjoys through rhythm and dance finds its place more and more in the rhythm of her paintings.

Jelena PapovicMovement.

The moment when the divers body hits the water.

Bodies frozen in whiteness and heated in the darkness.

Jelena Papović was born in Cetinje, 28 January in 1975.Spent her childhood in Budva, a middle school for industrial design classes in Belgrade, and the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje ended in June 1997 with Professor Nicholas Gvozdenovića-Gvozda. She lives and works in Budva, Montenegro.
Елена Папович родилась в городе Цетинье, Черногория в 1975 году. В 1997 году стала выпускницей Академии Изобразительных Искусств в Цетинье, где обучалась под руководством известнейшего черногорского художника, проф. Николы Гвозденовича Гвозды. Елена Папович является членом Союза Художников Черногории. В настоящее время живет и работает в Будве, Черногория.

Jelena Papović je rođena na Cetinju, 28.januara 1975. Detinjstvo provodi u Budvi, Srednju Školu za industrijsko oblikovanje pohađa u Beogradu, a Fakultet likovnih umjetnosti zavrsila je na Cetinju, juna 1997.godine u klasi profesora Nikole Gvozdenovića -Gvozda. Živi i radi u Budvi, Crnoj Gori.

Samostalne izložbe:
-Galerija grada –hotela Sveti Stefan - Budva,1997.
-Galerija “Laza Kostić”- Sombor,1998.
-Galerija “Stari grad”- Kotor,1998.
-Galerija “Centar”- Podgorica,1999.
-Moderna galerija- Budva,2000.
-Galerija kulturnog centra- Kotor,2002.
-Galerija “Josip Bepo Benković”- Herceg Novi,2003.
-Spomen dom Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša- Budva,2004.
-Galerija “Stari grad”- Kotor,2006.
-Galerija “Strategie art” centre de l’Art Contemporain-Beograd,2008.
-Galerija Festivala Grad Teatar- Budva, 2012.
-Galerija "Queen of Montenegro"- Bečići , 2013.

Učestvovala u kolektivnim izložbama u Crnoj Gori, Srbiji, Makedoniji, Češkoj, kao i u likovnim kolonijama i radionicama.

Njeni radovi se nalaze u Americi, Japanu, Francuskoj, Engleskoj, Nemačkoj, Norveškoj, Švedskoj, Holandiji, Češkoj, Rusiji, Mađarskoj, Italiji, Slovačkoj, Australiji, Srbiji i Crnoj Gori.