Marina Nakicenovic is a painter of trembling feelings and fine emotional webs.
She expresses light or heavy, soft or burdened atmospheres. She is an artist of great sensibility who unites lost Serbian civil culture of happy smile, family, dignified life, tradition of fine rituals with belle epoque experience and cultural circle where Serbian and Central European art flourished through her work. In her painting, high European culture formulas have been restored in the oath of silence poetics resembling the monastic one. Antiquity and time that breathe in the substance of her oils were invoked from European tradition tromp l’oeil. Intelligent and sensitive version of painting realism that she has brought is permeated by metaphysical.
A drawer, a jug, a small basket for bread or bread itself – not only the one with historical and symbolic values (eucharist) – get the aura of secretive, exceptional. The objects and characters in Marina Nakicenovic’s paintings, a lot different from media “icons”, are louded like sacred gifts with lots of care and love. Everything is complete and healed, harmonious, in silence and dust that covers objects in the end of time, everything is amazing in modesty, elegance, melancholy and spiritual purity in the world of Marina Nakicenovic.
Dejan Djoric