Mosaic

There are two basic methods to mosaic work - the direct method and the indirect method. In the direct method, the pieces of material you are going to mosaic with, known as tesserae, are directly fixed top side up onto a base or substrate and then grouted. In the indirect method pieces are temporarily fixed top side down onto a removable base material. This is (then) cast in its final form and the temporary base material is removed to reveal the mosaic, top side up. The indirect method is most often used when the finished surface needs to be extremely smooth.

Mosaic by Veselinka Mclarnon 

Natural Stone

Includes everything from beach or river pebbles to marble, granite, slate and modern day stone tiles. They have a wide range of colors, textures and surfaces. Also included are semiprecious stones - turquoise, lapis lazuli, alabaster, quartz and agate.

Mosaic by RIley Greco

Ceramic Tile

• Unglazed: Commonly found as 1" or 3/4" squares stuck to a paper or plastic mesh. The color is uniform throughout the entire tile.
• Glazed: Includes wall and floor tiles, crockery, pottery, tableware and others. The color is a fired surface layer over a clay base. They are a rich source for color, pattern, and texture.
• more info http://www.inlandcraft.com/howto/mosaic/mosaic1.htmhttp://www.inlandcraft.com/howto/mosaic/mosaic1.htm

EARP ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM Apply...

• Erdevik Artist Residency  Program (EARP) is open to all artists and creative individuals, working in any discipline such as land and environmental art, photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, video and film, collage, mosaic making, writers, artist working with sound and music etc…. EARP is a creative centre for collaboration, critical dialogue, openness, sharing ideas, for exploring a new creative potential for producing new works and building something which will last far longer than the time spent in the residency…  Collaboration is a mutually beneficial and well-defined relationship between  two or more creatives and proved very popular in this residency. Many artists established relationships with fellow artists, locals, musicians, writers and film makers.
   Information  EU citizens, the USA and Canada do not need visas for Serbia but as Serbia is not in EU you will need your passport.
  The currency in Serbia is the DINAR   sign as RSD and the most banks abroad don’t stock the Dinar currency.
  You can buy your currency at Belgrade airport when  you arrive or you could use Euros which majority shops  take. MasterCard and Visa are generally accepted  in shops, cafes and restaurants. Serbia is a 3G zone meaning you could call any part of the world from Serbia, using telephone connections.
  About Erdevik  Erdevik is a small village with only one pub, bakery and the small market held only on Thursdays. Artist  Residency house has a large organically grown garden using Permaculture principals. Erdevik is surrounded by two lakes Moharac and Bruje and National park Fruska Gora. If you like outdoor activities, swimming in the lake, camping, fishing or cycling and being creative then this is the right place for you. Culture, customs and colourful costumes of the multitude confessional society of Erdevik is exciting, represented by Serbs, Slovaks, Croats, Hungarians, and Ruthenia’s,  Montenegrians,  Macedonians, Slovenians, Yugoslav and others. Erdevik is rich in vineyard and it is presumed that the first vineyards in Erdevik were established as early as 276 AD, during the reign of the Roman Emperor Probes’ who brought wine to the region of Srem. Wine is the symbol of the Erdevik village. 
  
   The EARP programme invites new or established artists to explore their own practice, collaborate and experiment with diverse range of media. There will be opportunity not only to produce new work but also to engage with local community, create connections, collaborate and establish networks, and exhibit the works produced at the residency.
   Applications:
   Open call!  You  should include a portfolio – documentation of work (up to 10 images, video max. 3minutes), short text – and a project proposal or a short motivational letter (1 A4) or provide a link of your website , blog etc. •Please submit your portfolio electronically . For any further information please email artist.residency.serbia@gmail.com
  For more information: http://artistresidencyserbia.blogspot.com/

Creative meeting.. music... art..photogrpahy... performance...fashion show...Erdevik 2013 march

 The best is BEst, the best is when creativity become  ...collaboration, exploration into relationship between music, creativity and art.. and fashion.. and photography ...and human nature..and communication...
and someone asked what is CREAtivity?

cre·a·tiv·i·ty

1.

the state or quality of being creative.

2.

the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to createmeaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, orimagination: the need for creativity in modern industry; creativity in the performing arts.

3.

the process by which one utilises creative ability: Extensive reading stimulated his creativity.

Dragana Corbic 

Spring. .still waiting ....

Gig in Beba's kitchenette...when creativity flows...

To be creative in Erdevik is not difficult... the space, the people and ideas are always with us ...

Gile Srdjan Gojkovic member of the famous and very popular music group Elktricni orgazam advised and helped the young musician from Erdevik and the rest of us enjoyed  the mini gig in our small kitchen called Beba's kitchenette'''  

Vladimir Horvat , a talented musician  from Erdevik 

Working on collection of images taken during the past two and a half years in Serbia...

Milica....

Since coming to Serbia I have been exploring and considering identities and in particular different national, cultural, religious, regional and ethnic identities of the communities living in Serbia ... selection process...

Iwano Project ... Retrospective ... Ten Years ...

A few weeks ago i went to visit The Iwano Project Exhibition RETROX which was founded in 1999 as an international artistic author’s project by Aleksandar Pedovic, http://aleksandarpedovic.com/ an artist and designer from Novi Sad – Serbia in cooperation with Mr. Nadayuki Hasegawa and Mr. Heizaburo Iwano, the manufacturer of the famous Japanese hand-made paper.

The aim and the purpose of The Iwano Project is to join together the far east Japanese culture and tradition with our European cultural practice, thus creating a new quality and cultural products in the form of works of art which form the base of the project and a new multidimensional quality.

103 artists from 23 countries were selected for the retrospective exhibition.

Leaving my little village and going to see exhibition and meeting new friends and missing old ones who could not have come, having wonderful time at the opening was something to remember.

 The exhibition featuring outstanding works were created on large scale of Japanese paper , variety of techniques and approaches, cultural and diverse influences were visible in every work... 

Some traditional approaches to working with paper were explored along with works that used new technological mediums – displaying the ways in which those mediums were showing new explorations of working with and on Japanese paper.

This diverse and exciting exhibition provided interesting survey of what is happening in contemporary art across not only Europe or Asia but across the world.

With more than 100 works displayed and the exhibition catalogue which was richly illustrated with several essays and good company of artists I really enjoyed visiting and being part and seeing my work ....

My work I Mother, design name address age... was created in 2009 but the work next to mine is my favorite ....

The Iwano Project RETROX, a large retrospective the selected group international exhibition was held from 14 - 24 February 2013. in Novi Sad (Serbia), the Museum of Contemporary Art. 
The exhibition was opened by H. E. Japanese Ambassador Toshio Tsunozaki.
Take part over 100 artists from 24 countries and four continents, curated by Nebojsa Milenkovic.

http://www.iwano.org.rs/
Such new cultural product is the spirit and the product of communication between two so different civilizations, and at the same time it is a factor of regional communication, which often comes before politics as a positive impulse to cooperation and good relationships in the region and beyond.

This unique art project, the only one based in Novi Sad and Serbia, has represented our cultural area with great success through its activities, and as far as we know, there no similar project anywhere on the world which constitutes a great advantage.

In addition to the standard program, runs parallel to the concept of “Forever POLYPTYCH” – and the cyclical exhibition “Doors of Perception in the twenty-first century … which will eventually include other artists.
http://aleksandarpedovic.com/

Title:Doors XXI C – QUADRAL 001 Technique: Mixed media, poliptich of 4 square segments 60 x 60 cm Size: 120 x 120 cm (completed in basic formation). There is possibility to make a numbers of another combination – depends of imagination in time and space. Year: MMXI by Aleksandar Pedovic

Most of the participating women-artists came to our country for the first time and left with positive experiences and impressions.
Aleksandar Pedovic
www.iwano.org.rs

 office@iwano.org.rs

Remembering summer... Spring is knocking on the door ....

The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care

 and nurturing there will be consequences too big to ignore. 

Start of the year....LAND, LIFE, ART AND WORK

Start of the year 2013 was very busy, volunteers, artists and  locals  worked together , and collaboratively created so many interesting works. Permaculture and art came together.

Environmental education , use of natural and recycling  materials, learning building skills, making artistic connections between social, cultural, environmental and diverse backgrounds ... bridging our differences through artistic expressions... transforming ideas into artistic creations...
Our passion for artistic expression, our love for nature, land, sustainability, permaculture came all together and we created so many amazing objects. 

Reality is that we did not create anything new, we just went back into past and connected with our elders  and our ancestors in an attempt to find balance between, past, nature, art and life.....

Daniel making hotel for birds

everyone is working so hard to make hotels for birds, Marion Seles, Bastien, Gwen, Vasa, ZIka, Alex, Daniel, Beba ....

Basiten and Marion created hotel for birds with  16 equal luxurious  rooms for birds .. what a project ...

hotel for birds ...

Gwens nest... Lovely and imaginative sculpture ...but also place for birds .... 

Chicken tractor made by Bastien and Vasa

use of recycling materials, old T shirts are cut and shredded ... we made a loom and we created wonderful little rugs ...
Bastien was frame maker ...

Talented artist Gwen came from UK , not only that she made an artistic mark she also  made bread, stews and many  interesting meals ... 

Spiral herb garden ... ready for planting this spring ...permaculture principals...

Walnut.... cracking jokes and walnut... caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaks someone said...

Walnut baclava.. Marion's creation ..delicious ...

Time for art ...after long and cold working day... time to experiment ..... 

Bastien and Hamster .. next to each other .... i would not like to be a hamster .... 

Blue... lake Bruje.. Lake Moharac... Gwen ,, the amazing artist  and critical thinker ...

Basiten is creating ...

Some of out creation, trying and learning ... 

bastiens work ... mixmedia...

mess .. creative mess.. how wonderful ... 

evening... skype.. drawing... weaving... playing cards...making plans for  next day...

uuuuu... BUhtle... so delicious but temperature was so high and jam  .. we do not want to talk about it ... 

Making hotel for insects, an old pallet is transformed and adjusted to make a hotel  star category for all insects who will come in the spring and summer and stay over the winter... we collected lots of rubbish around and created wonderful hotel for insects... Children were concerned about hotel for birds which is near by.. they though that birds will eat all insects... that was a valid concern... after that we moved the Hotel for insects little bit further away from Hotel for birds ... 

It not only cooking  it is about art expression and taste and all story about the rabbit  who  ...

After midnight .. still trying ... making. .creating ...