BIOGRAPHY
Alma Božanić Čače grew up in Komiža on the island of Vis, returns often to the island in her spare time and finds inspiration there. She attended the School of Fine Arts (ŠLU) Split, graduated from UMAS in Split (Department of Fine Arts and Restoration) in 2001. She actively exhibits her works, has been the conductor of art workshops several times, sixteen times participated in group exhibitions and prepared sixteen solo exhibitions. She is a member of HULU Split and the Split Culture Association, has the status of free artist. In addition to painting and creative work, she is a woman and mother of two girls, all living together in Split and spending time in Komiža.ARTWORK:
Solo
exhibitions by Alma Božanić Čače
following one after another, are a reliable sign that she is on the right
track, that painting has become a part of her individuality and creative imagination which fosters
realistic observations in a postmodern environment, but primarily the process
of a sort of collaging the fragments of memories, daily intimate notes and
layered visual observations that are pressing from all sides.
Indisputably, with her autonomous speech of artistic elements, Alma Božanić Čače appears not as an innovator or a destroyer of old worlds, but as a seeker of new means of communication for expressing her artistic curiosity that leans on a rich emotional and imaginary world.
Color balance is present in every little piece of the canvas. Reduction of material reality will give an opportunity to rich coloristic weavings, ranging from impressionistic notes and expressive experiences to a stylization which searches for strictly individual solutions within flashes of memories. More sentiments, gestural significance, freshness and freedom of silhouette are a constant in Alma's painting.
In the range of motifs and subjects, what predominates are the landscapes of the hometown Komiža and magic journeys into the world of imagination where the island heritage is being reflected, as well as the author's own search where less and less figural compositions and portraits are found. Creating partly in the tradition of abstract expressionism as well, Alma Božanić Čače is also searching for her own matrix of abstract pattern which is compatible with her personality and subtle changes of internal states during the painting process itself. Having earned the artistic path of a sort of lyrical abstraction which completely reflects her personality and emotional ranges, in the vast field of defined landscape motifs with indigenous idiom and autonomous speech of pure painting, the artists leaves space to the new, internal impulses and to such evolution of speech where the closeness of experience and creative moment is felt.
Finally, it is interesting to observe how much even our young artist fights not only for her own vocation, but also how much she manages to preserve autonomy and independence of her own art, to step back from the defined artistic canons and set out to explore some new chapters, which is not an easy task at all.
Regardless of the formal similarity to postmodernist models, Alma's works of a non-narrative structure are joined to the similar artistic statements about the possibility of survival of this type of painting in circumstances where visual sensations are expanding and being marketed more and more aggressively through the mass media.