A departure from any premeditated scheme, or, moreover, from an anticipated final structure, coupled with a masterly controlled creative process and clearly focused intuition, stands in the core of Maja šeparović’s way of making jewellery. Out of the long process of patient and precise work the amorphous shapes appear, seemingly resisting to be tied up to any formal system. That is why a functionality – following a completion of the creative process in order to allow an emerging form to assume its practical value of a piece of jewellery – comes suddenly, even instinctively. Never pretending to be some final, inevitable outcomes, her objects always retain an element which opens up a possible expansion into some new, imaginary forms. <\/p>\n
Surely, this organic quality of the jewellery – while designing it, moreover, the artist sometimes expands her interest and makes various platters, jewellery boxes or even light mobiles – gets very much defined by the working methods. While designing jewellery Maja šeparović puts her emphasis on a manual work. She adapts and models the materials with her hands and very often uses craft techniques of a traditional handiwork (heklanje). The focus is on the detail, being born that very moment, which will gradually, as a link between an inner logic of the qualities of the material with the artist’s creative instinct, flow into a visually alluring object. <\/p>\n
The very process of creation begins with a choice of material, which also defines its morphological framework. As her primary expressive materials, Maja šeparović utilises shells, pebbles, coloured or white pieces of glass, their edges smoothened by the action of the sea, everything which has been rejected, born out of the womb of the sea, changed by the forces of nature. A synthetic thread – a fishing line – forms a web around milky, blurred glass. Sometimes she also uses plastic tubes and glass beads, in various colours, aiming to make the structure more translucent, lighter, free of any attempt to restrain it by force. Relying upon an instinctive rhythm of her own hands and that of the material, she assembles the collected pieces, almost ritually, into same fragile shapes reminding us of corals, algae, sea foam or floating plankton. When put on skin, Maja’s jewellery does not wish to remain just a mere decoration – it strives to assume the quality of a magical object, provided by its meaning and significance by our own imagination. <\/p>\n
Indeed, this object – no matter how much it could be poetically inspired by the nature and the sea – simultaneously carries a breath of an utopian sci-fi concept from the 1960s. It is “Space Oddity” defended by the weaves.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – A departure from any premeditated scheme, or, moreover, from an anticipated final structure, coupled with a masterly controlled creative process and clearly focused intuition, stands in the core of Maja šeparović’s way of making jewellery. Out of the long process of patient and precise work the amorphous shapes appear, seemingly resisting to be tied up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-mk.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Ružica šimunovic <\/em><\/p>\n
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Maja šeparović<\/strong> was born in 1966 in Split, Croatia.
education: 1996 history of art and comparative literature (BA), Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb. Lives and Works in Zagreb. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"