ART HISTORIAN ABOUT GRAPHIC
Radmila Kostić, Contemporary Art Gallery Niš, Informative internet magazine, March 2008th, No. 27, Biljana Miljkovic 6th March - 25th March 2008th, Text from Catalogue and Opening
"Biljana Miljkovic combines the graphic techniques and shows a remarkable knowledge of the very process of their creation which together with her personal inventively results in making her personal creative expression filled with limitless creative potential. Furthermore while searching for deeper mystic relations she strives to reach those higher spiritual values of the artistic creation, freed from everything that is excessive.
Composing refined tone surfaces and linear elements she creates well-proportioned, harmonious entities and while doing it the dark colours and the spiritual atmosphere release a strange impression of patina seeking for distant metaphors in our mediaeval fresco painting. Her iconography contains playful geometrical elements, concise associative symbols and signs in strictly controlled relations which eradiate subjective strength. Having this delicate feeling for colour and line as a systematic researcher she consciously reduces her own artistic language, giving it subtle, ultimately refined characteristics.
Vivid imagination and spontaneity in drawing as well as insisting on the structure left by a graphic plate make her expression richer and substantial. As an artist Biljana is at the moment on her ascending path, filled with creative freshness and joy, intertwined with her
thoughtful, analytic phases.
Having this tremendous talent for innovation and consistency in expression Biljana Miljkovic is creating a mature artistic formulation developing graphics as an artistic discipline towards unforeseeable technical possibilities, having a special place in the exciting world of visual art."
Ljubica Jelisavac, 19th October 2000. “Blic” - Biljana Miljković, Graphic Collective
„With the exhibition of her works Biljana Miljković, the artist in ascend, turned the gallery „Graphic Collective“ at Obilicev Venac into a one of a kind graphic shrine. This outcome was not preceded by any pretentious intention, but her almost ritual method of working in graphics (using onlu one matrix for each cycle) was reflected in the logic and order of the obtained entirety. The autor combines techniques, uses all the colors of precious metals, likes the shades of natural materials... However, she also attaches importance, yet non intrusively, to the presence of black and white, that is to the phenomenon of light, not only in its visual but also in it spiritual sense. At her exhibition the graphic „Enlightenment“ occupies the central position, approximately where the altar of the imagined shrine would stand. This can be earned only through dedication, appreciation, searching, creatihg... The symbols and signs as well as many screens will be revealed to those who are capable of acting this way.“
Olivera Vukotic, Exhibition graphics as part of manifestation the "Night of Museums", Gallery of the National Museum in Vranje, the text in the catalog. 14 May - 22 June 2010.
"Authentic art handwriting of Biljana Miljkovic segregated her
poetry as a unique artistic appearance in Belgrade's graphic circle.
She consistents developed style, but at the same time follows her research
sensibility, approaches each of graphic as a new challenge on which
needs to be answered. On content page, artist chooses abstract - associative
and geometric visual art solutions, which imply different levels of
reading.
Listed determinants are an idiom of author's artistic physiognomy, in
which the only reality is - the reality of her playful imagination.
Observed individually, each of these prints is an independent compositional
whole which is a story to itself, but is also synchronous part of the
exhibition's ensemble. The common denominator of all works is studiousness
and it characterized the entire process of creating a graphic, from
idea to realization. The analytical approach is, among other things,
manifesting as interlacing of different forms, techniques and procedures.
Skillful mastery of graphic techniques inspired by a lavish artistic
expression which captures their diversity. Understood in its totality,
plastic values moving from extremely reduced, minimalist treated surfaces,
through those whose organizational structure is based on the geometric
set up elements, to the graphics in which are combined overcroped and
saturated surface, tactile and linear values. In this context it should
be observed and the frequent occurrence of the circle as a universal
symbol which means totality, wholeness, timeless and primarily perfection.
Basically, exhibited artworks can be rough divided into two entirety.
Some compositions are divided on a several determinated surfaces, which
each of them have visual - semanticly autonomy, but at the same time
subordinated whole as an imperative. Precise articulation of the elements
has its artistic foundation, and execution brought to perfection additionally
amplify general impression. Contrary art works treated like this, there
are graphics in which the accent is on "uncontrolled" move,
which is manifested in freely arranged lines different values and surfaces
woven by them. However, independently of the existing fact, point is
exclusively about controlled and from the beginning to the end carefully
realized idea. Examples for that are graphics in which combine these
on first sight, opposed approaches.
All this indicate that with the help of sense for compositional schedule
Biljana Miljkovic can successfully working on the combination of different
types. That own sensibility to the permutations is conveyed and to color
matching. Delicate chromatic relations are occasionally intoned accents
of strong colors, which together with the oppositionally set relations,
amplified the visual effects of art work. A sense of balance, movement,
dynamism and lyrical sensibility permeates the compositional tissue
making it a living organism pulsing inner rhythm. In this way achieved
a visual dramatic, search from observer active participation in resolving
semantic puzzles. For their reading the important role have a sort of
calligraphic inscriptions which are a metaphor of emotion expressed
in that way."
Maja Stanković , „Svetlost“, Exhibition, 12th March 2009. Perfect - Biljana Miljković Graphic Exhibition, Gallery of National Museum Kragujevac, 4th March – 21st April 2009.
"There was an expression and there was a sign on the graphics of Biljana
Miljkovic when we first met her in 1997 at the Modern Gallery of the
National Museum. Since then till today the signs have multiplied, focused,
articulated into associative symbols, grouped in space so that her exhibition
gained its sense and wholeness of an artistically stable and semantically
interesting entity. Using all the available graphic techniques and her
skill, the artist indulged herself into an experiment through which
she developed her play on lines, strokes, forms, textures, light and
colours.
Through the correlation of those numerous elements, with letter sings
which are on its own one-of-a-kind graphic constructions and metaphors
for a higher level of communication and understanding among people and
civilizations, a complex system of values was created, both aesthetic-structural
as well as cognitive-meaningful, over which one may ponder endlessly.
She is playing with geometric forms, silent and associative signs, large
white patches and sections of densely concentrated events in both artistic
and semantic sense. Planes of different graphic interventions follow
each other, blend, emerge one from another, that movement that ceaselessly
goes on, gong into depth or submerging towards the surface of the picture,
developing correlations of different textures thus creating dynamics
on the level of abstract-associative plane on the pictures of Biljana
Miljkovic.With the delicate feeling she sometimes introduces intensive
colour portions, sometimes the colour assumes the role of a subject,
all aimed at obtaining the desired rhythm, balance and partially symmetry.
Along with all those variations, the overall shade remains in subdued
earth tones, while the order is recognized as the chosen constellation
of things on the pictures of Biljana Miljkovic.
In a narrative sense the artist corresponds with different cultures,
traditions, the universe from her own inner, personal angle. This is
why her graphics are so full of shapes which resemble fingerprints,
mystic, for a moment familiar, while in the next one the association
fades away and transforms into another one; Indian motives, music paper,
pressed flowers, the sun, zodiacs, borderlines on Japanese hasuras;
all of this and none of this. Always meaningful, with a reason. Each
picture is an entity of its own, and each, as a whole, has its justified
place. The number of possibilities in a graphic expression she has opened
for herself as well as the number of elements of most versatile nature
that she used and brought to perfect harmony equals the number of opportunities
she has offered us to search, conclude, wonder. The more the dilemmas
the greater the challenge and the proof of the magnificence of art.
It is up to us only to follow the leads."
Rajka Bošković, Part of the Text from Catalogue, about Prize for Graphic from IX Exhibition of Small Forms, Šabac, Yugoslavia, 2000.
"... Biljana Miljković expresses certain monumentality in her small format hraphic expression, where she skillfully introduces the attribute of spirituality when presenting some ordinary motifs..."
Sanja Stefanović, Part of the Text from opening first Exhibition and Catalogue, February 1997.
"... Biljana Miljković belongs to a so called group of "Graphic explorers"
who at the very beginning of their artistic career were marked for their
individuality, formed and recognizable iconography, expressive, strong
volume and being poetically convincing...
... The graphic field of Biljana Miljkovic graphics act from within
outwards making the material existence based on the system of creative
thinking and control of physical shapes, as well as interconnection
of the elements of composition..."
Sreto Bošnjak, Part of the Text from Catalogue, 2002.
"... Multiple monads and refined multi-layers on the graphics of Biljana Miljković..."
