Radmila Kačarević

My name is Radmila Kačarević, I was born on November 25, 1963. in Kotor, SFRY. I graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture as an engineer in fruit growing and viticulture in 1995. I successfully completed the Belgrade Summer Art Academy in June-September 1991. I periodically worked part-time as a correspondent for the newspaper Danas in Belgrade Chronicle (1997-1999).

Drawing, painting and sculpting are my stories that started to be written a long time ago, in elementary school, then high school, and waited a long, long time for the continuation of the arrival of the "New Me". My psychological state began to change in primary school, only to be restored when I moved to Belgrade. Long silences, avoiding people, grumpiness, irritability, sadness. I sought the help of a psychiatrist, but when the drugs started working, I spontaneously felt that I should do what I love, which is drawing, painting and sculpting. Drawing was like magic to me, and it was a way to expose emotions, I observe them from a distance, and drawings are an intermediary between me and the mirror of the universe...

I succeeded by working for a long time on the drawings to turn my subconscious into a conscious work of art. By drawing, I filled the whiteness of the paper and transferred to it the whole world of women, men, animals, mythical creatures and thus shaped my angels and demons and people similar to them who confuse and mislead me in real life. I thought about the existence of the world as I drew lines and removed all the masks from myself like a snake's skin, here I was the creator, free to believe in the impossible and thus cleanse my soul by getting to know myself and feeding my need to feel the courage of a child's joy. I draw and travel through underground caves, tree hollows: "I fly above the forests, pines, clouds and the sea" and "like a good swimmer, when my spirit rises in a wave of rapture with a passion that permeates drunkenness, furrows the depths of space". Freedom and passion extinguish my yellow unrest and I am happy that on the wings of imagination I can soar into the fields of light.

I am engaged in creation and it completely fulfills me, and I am glad that others like it. I also met wonderful, pleasant artists who helped me enter the world of art, Goran Stojčetović, the founder of the Art Brut Serbia Association, the Matrijaršija - alternative art center, and the Bojanić sisters with their art studio in Zemun.

Through continuous work, I improve my creation techniques, I am at a "new beginning" and I am satisfied.

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Belgrade, August 22, 2020.

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