Antonia Magdić
Croatia
Biography
Antonia Magdić was born in 1995 in Vinkovci, Croatia. She graduated from the Matija Antun Reljković Grammar School in Vinkovci. She is currently a graduate at the Graduate University Study of Fine Arts Education at the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek. She has participated in group exhibitions and art projects and has been awarded for several artworks. Some of the exhibitions are: "International printmaking and artist's book exhibition at Kortil Gallery, Rijeka; "Drava art biennale 2021." at Koprivnica Gallery, Koprivnica; "DA!Festival - exibition of awarded works" at Open Gallery in MSU, Zagreb; "Erste Fragmenti 16" at Lauba, Zagreb; "Starter 4" at Knifer Gallery, Osijek and Art room–center for youth Bunker in Samobor; "VGA 01" at Šira Gallery, Zagreb; "One su tu" at Slavko Kopač Gallery, Vinkovci. Awarded artworks are: „Terra incognita “/DA! Festival – exibition of student works/ Zagreb, Croatia /2020.; Jury award for work "Trace" at exibition „One su tu“/ Galerija likovnih umjetnosti “Slavko Kopač”/ Vinkovci, Croatia /2019.; Second award for work "Trace" at exibition „Create the change “/ Galerija Kazamat / Osijek, Croatia /2019.; Awarded students of the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek for academic year 2018. /2019. . She participated in workshops "Ruksak pun kulture- umjetnost i kultura u vrtiću i školi / "Redefinicija fotografije Toše Dapca u prostornu sliku" and 5. Festival Umjetnost i žena / "Slava Raškaj, pogled u daljinu". In my work, I tend to experiment with possibilities of creating reliefs and textures of places and landscapes that I depict. Works are the result of thinking about the problem of variability and instability of memories, about the issue of fading memories. Our memory is formed through experiences and their spatial textures. Visualized personal memories of an individual appear to the observer as unknown and unexplored places. Artworks are created by simplifying, to its unrecognizability, a selected fragment of the Dalmatian landscape. Other works were created as a result of observing the sea surface and its richness of marine expressiveness.