Teodore Nikolić: 43 sunsets

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

The concept of the exhibition "43 Sunsets" is based on creating a space of personal comfort. The search for security and its fulfillment is manifested in abstract spaces of geometrized forms. The name of the project originates from the quoted literary work "The Little Prince".

The initial idea of the author, Teodore Nikolić, is the creation of a unique world – a planet, a space. It is a space where limitations do not exist. The places presented in this cycle of paintings are depicted with geometrically pure colored forms, rooted in the classic Euclidean space. They are devoid of human presence and thus act independently on the observer. Scenes, like frames of a familiar world, with their architectural elements seek to isolate the individual from everyday external pressures and insecurities, while the spatial installation provides physical contact with the non-physical world represented on the canvases.

Teodora Nikolić was born in 1998 in Belgrade. She is a doctoral academic studies student at the Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade, at 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 within the department of Applied Painting.

She is a recipient of the "Dositej" scholarship from the Fond 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-graphic section of ULUPUDS. Actively engaged in visual arts, she has held four solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions.

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