The cycle of new acrylic paintings by Lili Gluić, created within the last two years, represents a continuation of the last two years, represents a continuation of the author´s continuous exploration of painting as an experience of visual reality, moving away from big influences and slowly confirming the pictorial path which mirrors her personality and emotional span. This relates not only to the city views but also to the specific imagination that transforms landscapes into almost subjective scenery of the soul through different tone matrices of color which communicate in a new way….In our opinion, until now Lili has not shown such freedom of painting, a strong vitality of the painting procedure consonant with the challenges of time, intense and pastose brushwork, reflection of light and color, a happy rhythm of the gesture and sense of the registry of the chosen pigment. Through the application of a new building process(quick palette knife strokes), the views of the walls of Omiš and structures by the seaside exposed to the gusts of winds of jugo or bura, the chosen landscape fragments, assume a dynamic of colorist enthusiasm, freshness and freedom of contours which turns the static in reality into a whirlpool and into blows of almost moving sea ….Lili uses all painting media to depict the redness of the sky (dry brush),to parse, under the influence of the work in plein-air, the darker colors of the sea where the grey overpowers the dark blue, the dark green suppresses the colors of summer, and a whole scale of warm ochre, golden yellow or white is interwoven into the stone of the Peristyle.
Interestingly, the painter has not changed her iconographic repertoire and building choices for many years. However, this turnaround geyser, bringing a new kind of communication with nature bearing a certain tension, seems to have been anticipated, leaving on the other side, as a kind of counterpoint, the old themes of stillquiescence, forgotten addresses, domestic animals, a world about to disappear, oases of a private universe dominated by watercolor clarity, safety of haven and intuitive fixation of color relations. What is dominant in both cases is the atmosphere, a positive, Dionysian attitude to life and art. However, moments of anxiety do not get concealed, the vulnerability of human life in the unbreakable chain of woman-city-nature-love-loneliness-soul.
So far Lili has had over 60 solo exhibitions and one could note this as being a process of a fast generation of paintings, which possibly makes it difficult to reflect deeper on various painting elements and gives the impression of incompleteness. However, we are looking at an artist with no feigned passion for work, an artist of the eye and the soul, a sincere traveller who explores without rest and observes the world recording her diarial observations, and it all seems like a personal interpretation of Lili`s intimate, yearned Ithaca. From impressionism to intimacy, from exploration to pure formal structures with balanced colors, and to the verge of abstraction. The art of Lili Gluić is a place of yearning, nostalgia, joy and a wealth of memories.
Tonći Šitin
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