Marija Orlovic

About Artist:

I came from Croatia to Germany (Mainz) in 1973 with a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service. At the Johannes Gutenberg University I did my doctorate in 1977 with a linguistic work. I live in Wiesbaden since 1978 and have been a German citizen since 1984.

I have late entry into art.

Although I've spent my entire life working on art - but only totally private, just for me. When I retired in 2014, I decided to look through my work, sort it, and make it accessible to the public. I applied for the 2017 Leipzig Art Fair and was admitted. In 2018, I applied to various online galleries - especially in the US: a total of 11 galleries have exhibited and included 30 of my artworks in their monthly exhibitions (February, March, June 2018) - where they are available. I got a total of 9 awards (Honorable Mention, Special Merit and Special Recognition Awards)

My aim is to present my view of "beauty" and the emotional state of experiencing beauty.

To experience and feel the beauty is always something special. I experience it as an ever-changing, polymorphic element of eternity that can be experienced in just a moment.

The experience of beauty for me takes place at the point where finitude and eternity touch.

That's what I try to visualize with my pictures, photos and videos. The tools of digital technology are my means of expression. With my camera I search for traces of untouchedness, originality and innocence in nature. In my short videos (30 seconds to one minute), I try to capture moments that are banal, but convey in their core the conflation of finitude and eternity as an experience.

It is important to me to maintain the authenticity.

That's why I kept the authentic soundscape of the recordings and worked without a tripod. In some videos you can therefore hear human voices and follow my breathing in the camera work. Thus, in my videos, a banal presence consisting of images and noises encounters the untouched eternity.

I work digitally because I think digital technology is a contemporary means of expression. It also makes it possible to feel experience and the creative as the "new seeing" in a unique symbiosis of being, is and will.

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Visit Website: www.mo-pictures.com

About Artwork:

I am Marija Orlovic and I love colors!

Specifically, it is the beauty of the interplay of form and color, of light and shadow, of calm and movement that inspires me. Together, one finds all these elements of perception in nature.

Only the nature knows no laws when it comes to creating new forms or mixing colors - and to present it all in a light that is only natural.

That is why I work with real photographs and films and try to present my view of things, my experience, my interpretation of reality on this basis. I edit the photos as I experienced and felt the photographed. It is my particular perception and experience that I present through various computer programs.

A jpg file is thus the result of my work as an artist.

For this file / artwork I create a certificate ("Certificate of Uniqueness for digital artworks") with all the required information about the file, artist and copyright. All pictures / photos / videos are signed and certified. The signed and certified downloads of editions, series and videos are limited to 50 pieces. The acquired jpg image can be viewed on the monitor (computer, laptop, mobile phone, TV) or as a projection on the wall or printed at the printer of own choice in the desired quality and format. In this way, I draw the viewer into the artistic process by deciding in the last instance - according to his preferences - the "tangible", the "material" of my art.