DUŠA JESIH C.V.

Dusa Jesih was born on 1977 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She lives and works in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. In 1996 she finished high school of Art, Design and Photography in Ljubljana and in 2003 graduated from Fine Arts on Art house - College for Visual Art, Ljubljana. In 2006 she post graduated in painting. For the present she lives and works little here, little there, in Ljubljana and in village Kal near Pivka, in capital and in the countryside, engaged in painting and printmaking; from classic painting to new media (as a technical support to her work). She participated in numerous exhibitions, colonies, residence programs and projects at home and abroad. Since 2004 she is a member of Community association of Slovenian artists ZDSLU. Since 2006 she is a mentor of art classes on Slovenian university for third life period. From 2006 to 2007 she was twice on expert and research advanced studies in Paris, living in Cite Internationale des arts. From 2008 she has a status of self-employed artist. At the moment (from 2012) she studies MA at ALUO - Academy of fine art in Ljubljana.

Dusa Jesih, a glittering colourful soul - literally delicate colourful alluvium

With Dusa Jesih, a young artist from Ljubljana, we are entering into a universe of structural abstraction, and more colourful: where in some strange way Malevic's and Jasper John’s reminiscence crosses, not knowing whether or not one or another have influenced her art.

Dusa's art, with its blackness and whiteness, which reminds us of different variations of night and day, with numerous soft bluish, pearly or vague reflections, is primarily poetic. Colours in balanced compositions gracefully stand opposite: pale violet, green, viny or yellow tonality mix and fall into stripes, painted in a geometric harmony.  It's about the art which gives a free playground to stunning harmony and where the view is lost in some kind of infinity that leads towards detailed examination.

The observer who has been following her paintings for a long time feels in some unusual way observed. It is like the paintings are giving back their own questions which are accumulated by persistant observations. In each of her works there are more paintings, where the author composes them in shape of destructiveness which confuses us, because what we see is not what we assume to see. It seems that the artist cherishes a special love towards secrets, which radiates through her paintbrush.

Adrian Darmon, critic, Paris 2007

PRIZES / REWARDS:

2011     International Ex-tempore Ptuj 2011, Winning prize

2009     44. International Ex-tempore Piran, Big winning prize

2008     43. International Ex-tempore Piran, Grand Prix

2007     42. International Ex-tempore Piran, Winning prize