ArtWalks – We Are Here.
Where are we? Under lockdown. In our homes. With our new fears. Facing a new reality. Asking ourselves existential questions. But, we know where we are. We are here, in this very moment. In the Now.
In this latest video work, I am using my home town Belgrade, under lockdown, as canvas for this thought provoking artwork.
By Milena ZeVu
BUTTERFLY
2019
ArtWalks - Butterfly 2019
ArtWalks Performance
Following my Third Eye, I soar high above the Earth and take a glimpse back.
There is a hole where my body was.
There is an outline of my actions, a clear imprint.
The planet is wide, beautiful and wild.
The people are small, each one both significant and not.
As I discover the heights, I enter a new dimension.
I change into something other and am no longer a part of the physical world.
I break my chrysalis shell and emerge anew.
A new light shines on me and the world.
We are One.
by Milena ZeVu
A JOURNEY INTO THE UNSEEN
2019 / 2020
ArtWalks - A Journey Into the Unseen 2019 / 2020
ArtWalks Performance
A JOURNEY INTO THE UNSEEN represents a series of videos that mimic my everyday life in three phases:
Meditation, Work Routine and Symbolic Integration with the Artwork.
Videos show my meditative creative process and portray the artist as a warrior. With art being a continuous battle, the artist is constantly subject to tests of endurance, always on the verge of giving up and making it through.
by Milena ZeVu
'MILENA'
HOMMAGE TO MILENA PAVLOVIC BARILLI (1909 - 1945)
ArtWalks Performance ‘Milena’ by Milena ZeVu
ArtWalks Performance
'Milena’. Milena Pavlovic Barilli was born in Serbia in 1909 and died in New York in 1945. I have always appreciated work of other artists who lived and worked in the past and left a trace in the art world. Milena was an extraordinary and versatile artist. What inspires me in her work? Ageless beauty, deepness of her thoughts, a positive attitude towards life, her dedication to art, notwithstanding many obstacles she faced...she had a blissful personality which one can notice in her work. ArtWalks ‘Milena’ is about confrontation between an artist from the present and an artist from the past... it’s a dialogue and a subtle communication between two female artists. Times are changing and there is always a lot of struggle for an artist to overcome...Milena did it in her own unique way.
Hommage to Milena Pavlovic Barilli (1909-1945)
Dom Jevrema Grujica, Belgrade 2019
ArtWalks Cities 139 Belgrade
YEAR: 2017
The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2018, London
ArtWalks Cities 85 Belgrade
YEAR: 2016
ArtWalks Cities 91 New York
YEAR: 2016
ArtWalks Cities 99 Belgrade
YEAR: 2016
ArtWalks Cities 107 Monte Carlo
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Cities 108 Monte Carlo
YEAR: 2017
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Cities 109 Monte Carlo
ArtWalks Cities 89 New York
YEAR: 2016
ArtWalks Cities 136 Belgrade
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Cities 107 Monte Carlo
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Cities 98 Belgrade
YEAR: 2016
ArtWalks Cities 109 Monte Carlo
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Cities 88 New York
YEAR: 2016
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Cities 110 Monte Carlo
ArtWalks Cities 89 New York
YEAR: 2016
ArtWalks Cities 86 New York
YEAR: 2016
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Cities 108 Monte Carlo
ArtWalks Cities 137 Belgrade
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Cities 90 New York
YEAR: 2016
ArtWalks Cities 91 New York
YEAR: 2016
ArtWalks Cities 138 Belgrade
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Cities 104 Belgrade
YEAR: 2016
ArtWalks Cities 93 Belgrade
YEAR: 2016
ArtWalks Cities 87 New York
YEAR: 2016
ArtWalks Cities 85 Belgrade
YEAR: 2016
The ‘ArtWalks Belgrade 139’ was selected for the 250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London in 2018.
ArtWalks Cities is a multidisciplinary concept, which involves many techniques, primarily painting, but also performance, living sculpture/model, graffiti, installation, photography…in making the ArtWalks, I would step out on to the busy streets of New York or other cities, with a painting on my shoulders and would walk in a dress, which was also part of the painting. I would also be using movement and body art…it’s a holistic approach to the process of creation.
ArtWalks Love Your Age 127
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 119
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 126
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 123
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 133
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ArtWalks Love Your Age 112
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ArtWalks Love Your Age 116
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 122
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ArtWalks Love Your Age 133
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ArtWalks Love Your Age 130
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ArtWalks Love Your Age 124
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 121
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ArtWalks Love Your Age 120
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 116
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 113
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 128
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 118
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 135
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 131
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ArtWalks Love Your Age 125
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 120
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 132
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 129
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 130
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 111
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ArtWalks Love Your Age 117
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 112
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ArtWalks Love Your Age 115
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 125
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 134
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 128
YEAR: 2017
ArtWalks Love Your Age 114
YEAR: 2017
How do u feel about your age? ArtWalks LOVE YOUR AGE is about women who are aging gracefully. Today each one of us can artificially improve how we look. Trying to look younger this way, we begin to look like somebody else. While I was doing ArtWalks, I have discovered that our age depends on our attitude and respect towards life. We need to accept that we are changing and evolving. I always notice when somebody has a spark in the eye and that’s the most beautiful thing for me, no matter their age…Today I feel that I want to age naturally because it’s about accepting who I am.
ArtWalks Exhibition
YEAR: 2016
Stab, Belgrade
ArtWalks is about the process of Change. Not of superficial transformation of shapes and colours but of a complete alchemical transmutation which leads to a fundamental change. Self-awareness is the first step needed in this process, achieved through mediation, introspection and self-criticism.
With creative thinking and access to higher knowledge, we step out of existing frames and enter again into the space of creation. We are then, yet again, at a new beginning. On a new journey towards higher realms of being.
Exhibition Opening
Performance
The Making of Artwalks
ArtWalks is about the process of Change. Not of superficial transformation of shapes and colours but of a complete alchemical transmutation which leads to a fundamental change. Self-awareness is the first step needed in this process, achieved through mediation, introspection and self-criticism.
With creative thinking and access to higher knowledge, we step out of existing frames and enter again into the space of creation. We are then, yet again, at a new beginning. On a new journey towards higher realms of being.
YEAR: 2016
Stab, Belgrade
ArtWalks Exhibition
ArtWalks pieces are created with contemplation on movement
and body art and represent a holistic approach to the process
of creation. Dynamic in essence, ArtWalks stand for the
perpetual state of change, movement and evolution.
Installation ONE
YEAR: 2005
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
Installation ONE
YEAR: 2005
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
Installation ONE
YEAR: 2005
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
Installation ONE
YEAR: 2005
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
Installation ONE
YEAR: 2005
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
Installation ONE
YEAR: 2005
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
This installation "occupied" the whole Museum as it consisted of a 70meter rug which went all the way out to the street. That was an installation, one of the scenes from my video work, 'The ONE', part of Balkan Wars group work. 'Tapittura' is a painting rug synergy and the whole
idea was that a visitors entering the Museum becomes a part of this Installation.
Can you step into ART?
The installation took place in the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest in July 2005.
Video Work ONE
YEAR: 2002/2003
Balkan Wars - the Game
International EMAF Award 2005 for group project Personal Cinema - Balkan Wars, for which my video work ‘ONE’ was part of.
Installation Tapittura ONE
YEAR: 2002
Painting/oil on canvas/paillettes/carpet 100% wool
Dimensions painting 1mx1m carpet 1mx2m
Tappeto (Rug) + Pittura (Painting) =Tapittura
A Painting that extends into a Carpet
A Carpet that becomes a Painting
Both created on Canvas
Can you step into Art?
Installation Tapittura The Room 3
YEAR: 2001
Paintings/oil on canvas/paillettes/carpets wool 100%
Dimensions paintings 12x1mx1m, carpets 10x1mx2m, carpet 1mx20m
Installation Tapittura The Room 4
YEAR: 2011
Paintings/oil on canvas/paillettes/carpets 100% wool
Dimensions paintings 12x1mx1m, carpets 10x1mx2m, carpet 1mx20m
Installation Tapittura Natura Verde Chiaro
YEAR: 2001
Painting/oil on canvas/paillettes/carpet 100% wool
Dimensions painting 1mx1m carpet 1mx2m
Installation Tapittura Natura Arancio
YEAR: 2001
Painting/oil on canvas/paillettes/carpet 100% wool
Dimensions painting 1mx1m carpet 1mx2m
Installation Tapittura Natura Blu Scuro
YEAR: 2001
Painting/oil on canvas/paillettes/carpet 100% wool
Dimensions painting 1mx1m carpet 1mx2m
Installation Tapittura Natura Marrone
YEAR: 2001
Painting/oil on canvas/paillettes/carpet 100% wool
Dimensions painting 1mx1m carpet 1mx2m
Installation Tapittura Natura Verde Scuro
YEAR: 2001
Painting/oil on canvas/paillettes/carpet 100% wool
Dimensions painting 1mx1m carpet 1mx2m
Installation Tapittura ONE
YEAR: 2002
Painting/oil on canvas/paillettes/carpet 100% wool
Dimensions painting 1mx1m carpet 1mx2m
Installation Six Feet Above 2
YEAR: 2005
Painting/oil on canvas/Swarovski crystals/carpet 100% wool
Dimensions painting 1mx2m carpet 1mx2m
Installation Six Feet Above 1
YEAR: 2005
Painting/oil on canvas/Swarovski crystals/carpet 100% wool
Dimensions painting 1mx2m carpet 1mx2m
Installation Six Feet Above 3
YEAR: 2005
Painting/oil on canvas/Swarovski crystals/carpet 100% wool
Dimensions painting 1mx2m carpet 1mx2m
Installation Tapittura Exit 3
YEAR: 2001
Painting/oil on canvas/Swarovski crystals/carpet 100% wool
Dimensions painting 1mx1m carpet 1mx10m
Installation Tapittura Exit 4
YEAR: 2001
Painting/oil on canvas/Swarovski crystals/carpet 100% wool
Dimensions painting 1mx1m carpet 1mx10m
Tappeto (Rug) + Pittura (Painting) =Tapittura
A Painting that extends into a Carpet
A Carpet that becomes a Painting
Both created on Canvas
Can you step into Art?
