Mila KOSTIC
Mila KOSTIC is Canadian visual artist. After a promising start as an artist in former Yugoslavia, she moved to Vancouver in 1996 with her family. She has worked as a curator, educator, and as facilitator of visual and community based arts, working with diverse artists and organizations representing multiple disciplines. She has been actively exhibiting and making art for over twenty years. Mila has spearheaded many of her own artistic projects and has been associated in particular with promoting modern art in British Columbia and Canada. Mila is known predominantly for her large- scale abstract acrylic and oil paintings on canvas. Her work revolves around the experimentation with lines and colour; and thematically on the processes of creating a painting.
During the last twenty years of her career, Mila created series entitled “Masks and Dolls”, “Writings on the Wall”, “Lost states” with diversified themes, and most recently, “The Borders Series” a collection of works focused on the every day; a compound of private, social and political events. These events range from the significant to the mundane, and Mila explores the impact of these events on the individual and seeks to articulate these events into her work through the framing device of the border.
Particularly, through the breaching or crossing of these borders, borders allow some to be on the inside, while forcing others to remain on the outside. This applies not only to territorial borders, but also to borders between identities, genders, ethnicities, classes, sexualities; borders between private and public, between “self” and “other”.
Presently, she added a new series of work entitled “Fragments”. The “Fragments Series”, is a comprised of private, personal and social events in which some may be found to be significant, life- changing, or even hard to shake. Thus, leaving a deep impression, it is natural extension from her early work to the present day.
米娜.歌施狄是加拿大視象藝術家，1996年她和家人從原居地南斯拉夫以成名畫家身份移民到溫哥華，並且以策展人、教育家及視象及群體藝術推動人的身份，與不同族裔和團體一起為各範疇藝術服務，積極展出及創作藝術長達二十多年。米娜設定很多特定藝術項目，特別是推動加拿大及卑詩省的現代藝術，她的特大抽象壓克力及帆布油畫作品非常馳名，作品重覆地試驗線條及顏色，並刻意地體驗創作的過程。
在過去二十多年的工作，她創作了系列畫，包括 ” 面具與洋娃娃 ” 、” 在牆上寫字 “、” 失去的國度 “，等不同主題。最近的 ” 邊界系列 ” 是有關每日經歷的混合個人，社會及政治的事件。這些事件由重要的至呆悶的，而米娜探索不同人對事件的反應，並嘗試活化這些事件進入她的作品，以邊界作為規範。特別是:“透過違反或跨越邊界，邊界將部份人圍在裏面，卻將其他人排斥在外面“。這不單是指地域性的邊界，也包括身份、性別、族裔、階級、性取向、私人及公眾空間，個人及他人等。近期，她新增了作品題為 ” 零碎 “， ” 零碎系列 ” 是包括私人、個人及大眾事件而其中有些是有重大意義的，改變生命的，及甚至無法改變的，從而留下深刻印象，這是她早期到近期作品之自然延續。
