Every Dot Is a New Beginning
The topic of the doctoral art project The Gestural Rhythm of a Dot – in the visual representations of personalized spaces of cities – a multimedia exhibition, refers to the reflection and execution of artistic poetics and technique, based on the personal experience of the artist’s life in different cities around the world. Isidora Fićović discovered the specific symbols and significant places of Istanbul, Linz, Hiroshima and Belgrade, where she spent some time furthering her professional practice at prestigious art institutions, by applying various research methods. The results of this research are presented in drawings and paintings using the gestural rhythm of a dot and are part of an interdisciplinary multimedia exhibition.
The Gestural Rhythm of a Dot evokes movement, a physical-manual presentation of work, cultivates the aesthetics of body or hand gesture in the playfulness of artistic elements: dots, lines and colors; it returns man to the beautiful and the sublime by emphasizing the circle as a form of perfection and the metaphysics of the dot as the temporal dimensions of the painting. Representing personal experience of urban spaces with different colors and densities of dots or circles, she characterizes the atmosphere, people and architecture of the city by colors, and expresses the intensity of the dynamics of urban life by the density of dots as an abstract form.
Isidora Fićović’s doctoral exhibition presents various rhythms, which metaphorically signify the culture of life in these cities, contemporary or traditional, while they literally have the meanings of music and dance specific to the chosen city. The Gestural Rhythm of a Dot – in the visual representations of personalized spaces of cities – a multimedia exhibition, encourages artistic and philosophical reflection on the dot, which in Japanese, Turkish, Serbian and German has the same meaning “every dot is a new beginning”, but a different sound rhythm of pronunciation.
Olivera Erić and Isidora Fićović
