Those Seen in Blood, Rubies, Human Lips and Fox’s Hair (2010) Oil on canvas, Size: 90 x 120 cm
Maja Maljević is a Serbian born artist who lives and works in Johannesburg. She creates a melodic cacophony of joyfully surreal and mostly abstract colour-scapes in which humor usually plays an important role. The shapes and objects are often enmeshed in a matrix of colours, textures, occasionally figures and often cryptic words. She works intuitively, splashing paint freely and expressively. For Maljević, describing her work is like putting music into words.
She says “I try to concentrate on the process of building and layering imagery, which is a central concern of mine when painting.” She enjoys the mistakes, mess and unintentional marks and believes that if you don’t create the layers, you don’t get the end result. The marks, whether intentional or accidental, are integral to this process.
Maljević first participated in a monotype workshop at David Krut Print Workshop in 2007 and since then has created several bodies of work with the DKW printers. In 2009 she had a solo exhibition at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, called Into the Spine, and she has worked at the Arts on Main workshop for the duration of the 2010 Monotype Project. Maljević had her second solo exhibition at David Krut Projects in February 2011. The exhibition, titled Bubble and Leak, consisted of a series of large oil paintings and selected monotype prints. Maljević recently did a two week painting residency at the Nirox foundation and will be exhibiting in a solo show at David Krut Projects Cape Town in 2012.
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