02.12.2023
Exhibition announcement
We invite you to the official opening of the exhibition “Spiritus Europae” by Ana Marija Botteri on Wednesday, December 6, starting at 6:30 p.m. in the gallery of “St. Nikola Tavelić”.
Motivated by the current state of the world, the author chose a theme that would be translated from Latin as the Spirit of Europe, and with the choice of motifs she set out to create views and cultural landscapes that reflect the richness and diversity of the cultural heritage of collective Europe, which the author reinterpreted and revitalized with her own color, bringing them in the contemporary context. Through hand strokes, the artist conjures up landscapes and cultural monuments that define the identity of the entire continent, mutually permeated with the influence of others, the so-calledg distant cultures. The views of the cities of old Europe, with all its artifacts of history interwoven with its streets, squares, magnificent secular and religious buildings, become the inspiration for Ana Marija’s artworks that evoke emotions and tell stories about time and space (Ivor Igrec).
Ana Marija Botteri was born in 1971 in Split. Graduated from the School of Applied Art and Design in Split. In 1993, she graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb with prof. Jure Seder. Studied in Paris, Milan, Venice and Vienna. He is engaged in making mosaics and stained glass. He is a member of HZSU and HULU. She exhibited at over sixty independent exhibitions in the country and abroad. Her works are in many gallery and museum collections. She is a prominent author of portraits of many famous people. Studio Varan “Centre de formation a la Realisation documentaire Paris”, shot a short documentary about Botteri while she was painting with her father Josip Botteri Dini in Paris in 2011. She made a large mosaic of Murano glass in the parish church in Grebnice, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He lives and works in Split and Bol on the island of Brač. He permanently exhibits his works in Ateliers “Botteri”.