Symbolically on Women's Day, on March 8, the second solo exhibition of the artist Dijana Čović "Didi - The World of a Woman" opens in the Novi Zagreb Culture Center in the Vladimir Bužančić Gallery.

Novi Zagreb Culture Center in the Vladimir Bužančić Gallery
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Dijana Covic was born in Vukovar, lives in Zagreb, works as a television editor, has had a passion for painting since childhood, is a self-taught painter, and inherited her talent from her grandmother who was a sculptor.

"Women are the ones who marked my life, and because of whom I am the way I am today. Each of my portraits carry some of my emotions, experiences, symbolism, all of them are me and I am all of them."

“Women are the ones who marked my life, and because of whom I am the way I am today. Each of my portraits carry some of my emotions, experiences, symbolism, all of them are me and I am all of them. That’s why I say to little Dida, as I was called in my childhood, who was lost and found many times on the way from a girl to a woman, fell and stood up and rose from the ashes, and to whom I am getting closer every day – don’t be sad, don’t worry, don’t fear, everything is as it should be”, says the artist, who describes her paintings as interpersonal, very personal and emotional, but also engaging, especially regarding the position of women in society.

Through art, she sends a strong message, fights against gender stereotypes, but also finds her own identity and, as she says, frees herself from the demons of her own subconscious and the roles that conservative society has imposed on her.
He usually evokes the realism of female portraits with oil, and the abstraction of shapes and lines with spatulas using the impasto technique, enhancing the rhythmicity of the picture. In addition to oils, he paints with acrylics, sometimes with watercolors in the manner of abstract realism.

Thus becoming the author's personal presenter of male-female relationships, intimate moments, female dreams, a personal visual testimony of the perception of a woman in a "man's world".

Diana’s women, her muses – wives, lovers, mothers, daughters, sisters, workers, entrepreneurs, artists, scientists…, embody fundamental feminine principles that can be read through a clear morphology in the image and theme of her painting, accepting numerous stereotypes, role and meaning women in society.

In addition to oils, he paints with acrylics, sometimes with watercolors in the manner of abstract realism.

Thus becoming the author’s personal presenter of male-female relationships, intimate moments, female dreams, a personal visual testimony of the perception of a woman in a “man’s world”. In a world where the presentation of women is a replica of existing social stereotypes that often portray women as an aesthetic addition to everyday life. And Diana seems to live up to that idea, placing her wife in an intimate, somewhat boudoir world, one woven with imaginary surreal elements, a world that is unburdening and perceptibly light,” says art critic and curator Sanda Stanaćev Bajzek.

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