Artwork description / Biography
Nina Sumarac Jablonsky is a Serbian-born visual artist living and working in Cyprus for the past 16 years. She holds a Master in Mechanical engineering at the Belgrade Polytechnic University for New Technologies in Serbia and Postgraduate diploma in Fine Art at Cyprus College of Art. From 2001 Nina Sumarac Jablonsky had eleven solo shows and has participated in a great number of group exhibitions both locally and abroad. She has developed a very personal and distinct style by delving deep into subconscious visions, which she merges with conceptual reflections of reality in order to reveal the very quintessence of each human being, portrayed in a penetrative and revealing fragmentation. Nina Sumarac Jablonsky, is a member of E.Ka.Te. - the Cyprus Chamber of Fine Art, and member of ULUPDS - The Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia. She has also had significant experience in film and animation production. Work in animation and illustration left profound impact with which she build her unique recognizable style. Furthermore, she is also actively involved in the cultural life of Limassol having offered curatorial contribution in art exhibitions that have taken place in the city.
(TAKE) ALL OF ME
collection in prepartion. time 2015-2017
No matter our origins, our DNA is constantly evolving due to environmental, cultural, political, economical, emotional and personal circumstances. There is no fixed human nature like it or not; we are all cross-bred and our minds reflect the realities of the global village.
When we finally accept our new fluid identity; when we realize the whole is vastly greater than the sum, our collective love, potential and dynamism can and will transform the conflicts of today into tomorrow’s Utopia.
The collection TAKE ALL OF ME celebrates our differences and similarities, portraying all humans as equally acceptable and beautiful.
Artist
”Vibrant, honest and holistic; Ms Nina’s image is a sang froid homage to the polymorphic and wonderful diversity of our species.The richly disparate collection of cultural and body fragments into a dynamic whole is a fascinating act of reverence for our superb distinctiveness on every level; as if to say “All so different yet all so gracefully the same.”
“In the Garden of Eden” is a heartfelt request to be accepted in our glorious complexity, to be loved in our quilt-patched nature; a nature that is sewn from the criss-cross stitches of history, culture, environment, power, circumstance, age and genetics. The challenge is understanding how our deep longing for total acceptance translates into a readiness to offer a total embrace.
Strife can thus be seen as a failure to comprehend the universality within the unique; harmony, ergo, is the appreciation of our differences as reminders of our similarity. The woman and man via their flirt express an urge to ’unification’ which can only genuinely occur if there is authentic acceptance.
Gerald Marks song, sang by Frank Sinatra and by many others and which inspired this piece, sings “Your goodbye Left me with eyes that cry” and infers, I cannot exist only within what is approved; “so please... take all of me”.
Text by Costa Constantinides ,MSc Counseling Psychology & BA in communications/political science with a minor in philosophy; writer, visionary, counselor, constructive critic and activist
