The Scent of Painting - Michael Reid Gallery
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Alesandro Ljubicic "Be Not Afraid of Growing Slowly, be Afraid Only of Standing Still"
Oil on linen behind glass | 28" x 28"
Alesandro Ljubicic "Wherever Life Plants, Bloom With Grace" - diptych SOLD
Oil on linen
75" x 120"
Alesandro Ljubicic "I Must Have Flowers, Always And Always" SOLD
Oil on linen | 71" x 67"
Alesandro Ljubicic "Listen To Silence. It Has So Much To Say" SOLD
Oil on linen | 71" x 67"
Alesandro Ljubicic "There Are Always Flowers For Those Who Want To See Them" SOLD
Oil on linen | 71" x 67"
Alesandro Ljubicic "Diamond Orange Beneath the Linen Flower" SOLD
Oil on canvas
59" x 98"
Alesandro Ljubicic "Magnolia Among Cherron" SOLD
Oil on linen
40" x 39"
Alesandro Ljubicic "Carmine Rose Ash" SOLD
Oil on linen
40" x 39"
Alesandro Ljubicic "Amethyst Ash Rose" SOLD
Oil on linen
48" diameter
Alesandro Ljubicic "Cyclamen Quin Magnolia" SOLD
Oil on linen
40" x 39"
Alesandro Ljubicic "Cyclamen Cherron Rose" SOLD
Oil on linen on DiBond
59" x 118"
Alesandro Ljubicic "Linen Magnolia " SOLD
Oil on linen over DiBond
70" x 177"
Alesandro Ljubicic "Celado Coral Bloom" SOLD
Oil on Dibond on Linen
59" x 98"
Alesandro Ljubicic "Magnolia Linen Mist" SOLD
Oil on Linen
59" x 98"
Alesandro Ljubicic " Dianthus Fushia Bloom " SOLD
Oil on linen
47" diameter
Alesandro Ljubicic "Amethyst Cyclamen" SOLD
Oil on linen on DiBond
59" x 118"
Flowers burst out from Alesandro Ljubicic’s large, textured canvases. Sweeps and daubs of vivid colour convey his intense response to the beauty of nature. Ljubicic’s less resolved colour studies share the same emotional charge. The smaller panels, created at the same time as the larger flower works, further explore the effects of layering paint. Whirls and waves of different colours resist blending together, competing to be the most vibrant. The trace of Ljubicic’s brush and palette knife is clearly visible; dragging and scooping thick layers of oil paint to create sculptural surfaces.
Born in Jajce, in Central Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alesandro Ljubicic studied at the National School of Art in Sydney, where he has lived since 1993.
In the hands of Alesandro Ljubicic, a Bosnian-born and Sydney-based painter, flowers are divorced from the moribund sentencing that art history dictates. Instead, they are reincarnated from their melancholic stasis as living still lifes, dynamic and daring, teaming with light and exploding with colour and all the paradox that the expression suggests.
