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front of us, and there are so many interpretations. Theauthor places all those displayed objects in significantmutual relations, which often qualify as rather cleverideas. She paints her own impressions, reflections ofpeople and situations in her own perception. By givingher projects rather determinable titles, she refuses toallow total freedom to an observer, as she chooses tomildly suggest the path.Speaking of her work, Eugen Borkovsky states in thecatalogue foreword of the 2006 exhibit in gallery “Fonticus”in Grožnjan: “The author is making the motifs thatattract her attention seem clumsy. She achieves thatby exploiting the possibilities of substance, while alsocooperating with it to accomplish an identificationtyperelationship. She uses the clusters with two obviousresults: drawing layers that become composition elementsand producing a painting by literally applyingmaterial clusters. The substance retains and remembersfeelings, impressions and processes of the workperformance. The artist has no respect for consistency,but rather combines drawing, painting and collageswhile listening to her thought pronunciation. Storagesand layers are in heavy contrast with the somewhatsimply performed child drawing.”Borkovsky also notices that the artist celebrates agesture while tearing down the traditional figurativemeaning of a motif at the same time. She is coming upwith a style that is completely personal. The impulsesthat we can interpret from her project have basis in thebreaking point of surrealism and informal shapes. Tisjastops short between the performance’s content andspontaneity. By sticking with the body assortment anddark storages while not introducing new elements veryoften, she creates a mythical vocation of her cycle.Following the ideas of art group “CoBrA”, which wasfounded in the late 1940s (with a name that is an acronymfor Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam, hometownsof its members), she uses art as an existential elementin as pure a form as possible.Over the summer of last year, during the exhibit called“New Painting Reality in Split”, Tisja Kljaković presentedher works in Zagreb gallery “Josip Račić” along withNeno Mikulić. This interesting combination of differenttemperaments and painting sensibilities resultedin a display that featured two close, yet completelyautonomous artistic ways of functioning. Chromaticallyreduced and stylistically refined canvases by TisjaKljaković use their stylish flair to effortlessly match theexcellence of Mikulić’s creative exuberance, as DarkoGlavan says. “And while Mikulić directly reacts to thepresent time as an artist, Tisja presents a strong counterpointto his creative temperament, which results in thisjoint exhibit approach gaining a meaning of a doubleartistic revelation.”Tisja Kljaković has been displaying her works since 2001.Since that time, she has organized several individualand group exhibits, while her projects found their placein the collection of Modern Gallery in Zagreb, SaintKrševan Gallery in Šibenik, and in private collections inthe country and all over the world. She lives and worksin Split, where she and her partner Neno Mikulić run agallery called “Ship in a Bottle”.Odletjet ću / I’ll fly away, 93 x 80 cmEvo me!!! / Look at me!!, 84 x 60 cm79