Zirdum Mirjana – Stairs

She was born in Krk in 1955. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo in 1977 (prof. H. Tikveša, Lj. Perčinlić, M. Berber). She has been a member of the Croatian Society of Fine Arts Rijeka (since 1984) and Zagreb (since 1996). She has been an independent artist since 1990. So far, she has held about thirty solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions, as well as won several awards. She lives and works in Malinska on the island of Krk.

“Her body of work lives, grows, and endures with us for over twenty years, confirming the view that an artist can survive alone, outside of groups and trends. She carries color within herself; she doesn’t need to think about it—color is always the most important to her, and she connects every touch to the material world through it. It is no surprise, therefore, that her painterly handwriting explores searches and discoveries within Matisse’s Fauvist interpretation of reality. She starts from the perception of recognizable space, which she deconstructs in order to compose the painting’s structure. She analyzes to unite into a new quality… And she finds the painterly sensation in the austerity of flat, sharply edged planes, in the sharpness of right angles and the construction of architectural elements, but also in the softness, pliability, and playfulness of palm or aralia leaves. She simply enjoys the new harmony of fragments of the tangible world, in the discipline of creation and the order of stage articulation.” (Branka Arh)