Teodore Nikolić: 43 Sunsets

"One day, I saw the sun set forty-three times! ...you know, when a person is very sad, they love sunsets." – "The Little Prince" by A. De Saint-Exupéry

The concept of the exhibition "43 Sunsets" is based on creating a space of personal solace. The search for security and its realization is manifested in abstract spaces of geometrized forms. The project's title is derived from the quoted passage of the literary work "The Little Prince".

The initial idea of the author, Teodore Nikolić, is to create a unique world - a planet, a space. It is a space where limitations do not exist. The places presented in this series of paintings are depicted with geometrically pure colored forms, rooted in the classical Euclidean space. They are devoid of human presence and thus act autonomously on the observer. Scenes, resembling frames of a familiar world, strive to isolate the individual from daily external pressures and uncertainties with their architectural elements, while the spatial installation provides physical contact with the non-physical world depicted on the canvases.

Teodora Nikolić was born in 1998 in Belgrade. She is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade, in the Department of Applied Arts and Design, under the mentorship of Dr. Tijana Kojić. She completed her undergraduate and master's studies at the same faculty in the Department of Applied Painting.

She is a recipient of the "Dositej" scholarship from the Fund for Young Talents, for her undergraduate and master's studies. In 2024, she obtained the title of research assistant at the Faculty of Applied Arts. She is a regular member of the painting section of ULUS and the painting and graphic section of ULUPUDS. She is actively engaged in visual arts and has held four solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions.

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