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Ja slikam svoje emocije, iskonski pristupam platnu, kaže slikarka I paint my emotions, I approach the canvas ‘primordially’, says this painter
“I paint my emotions, I approach the can- vas ‘primordially’. My task isn’t to show an- ything, to send messages to anyone, but if they are nonetheless universally read then my art will also push the boundaries of oth- er people’s minds.” And despite these unusual painted scenes, Gala loves people, especially pecu- liar ones; she loves to dance, loves kafana tav- erns, loves the snow when it falls on mountain peaks, loves to tour the world in her paintings. “Art is unattainable, given only to the spe- cial. Thinking you’re special is pride, but to move in such a way towards art is courage, while devoting your life to art is pure mad- ness,”says Gala describing her life philosophy. And a special segment of craziness is to sacri ce your time and money with the aim of promoting other artists. It is to this end that Gala will be organising the Gala Interna- tional Symposium of Art for the second time in early November, this time at Kaštel Schul- ho in Padej, a small village near the town of Ada in Vojvodina. Gala will mutually con- nect the fteen participants of the symposi- um, eminent artists from all over the world, but will also connect them with collectors, gallery owners, representatives of museums and other institutions, but of course also with the “ordinary” public. The castle, built in 1896 by wealthy mer- chant Lajos Schulho , is located alongside the Tisza, one of Vojvodina’s most romantic rivers. The rooms in which the arts will stay are luxurious and equipped with stylish fur- niture. Their studio will be the huge garden in the grounds around the castle, lled with skilfully cultivated plants and replicas of an- cient sculptures. The spacious dining room, with a huge square table, will host the artists during lunch, with the best chefs cooking for them. And also representing an exclusivity is the fact that these 15 artists will each receive compensation of a 1,000 euros, although the Symposium is not an elitist gathering, but rath- er an avant-garde summit devised to change the local understanding of art. When it’s all over, Gala will return to painting; to her incomprehensible worlds lled with strange scenes, for which she is celebrated, among other things. In conclu- sion, we ask her why she does all of this, not for personal gain, but for the general bene t of all. She says in response“because I’m cra- zy,”which is how unwavering enthusiasm is described here.
G ala Čaki, a 32-year-old artist from Novi Sad, has achieved what few have managed. She holds a PhD from the Belgrade University Fac- ulty of Fine Arts, having previously earned two master’s degrees from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, which is unprecedented in the eld of artistic creativity locally. This year she’s still awaited by exciting times. She will exhibit at the newly opened Serbian Culture Centre in Beijing and her works will also travel to New Delhi and Lon- don, while her works have already been on show at Paris’s Grand Palais, at the invita- tion of the famous Salon des Indépendants association. Describing her work, Gala says that she paints“the manifold simultaneity of destinies, depicting the inevitability of dying”. Those deaths are“ubiquitous even while life is still going on”, notes this artist, whose paintings are actually representations of a materialised philosophy. In an abstract and very expres- sive way, she uses oil paints on canvas to conjure a spiritual relationship towards her own artwork, the scream of hopelessness,
She doesn’t only create her unusual scenes for Serbia, with her works having been exhibited in many countries around the world, reaching New York, Japan, Korea, Indonesia etc. And although she resisted – claiming that she was too young – she was nonetheless included in the commission to select this year’s Serbian representative for the Venice Biennale.
the tragedies of mountains, the incompre- hensible space of the unconscious… With the overlapping of layers of colour, her en- tire internal world becomes visible to the viewer.“And those are all miseries and trib- ulations,” says Gala Čaki. Thanks to the power of art, the results of constant questioning come across as op- timistic to someone from the outside , with all the complexity of her compositions. Inter- twining within them are lines, stains, light, shadows, silence and sounds… Because all Gala wants is “to reach the deepest hid- den self that she suspects she won’t even like”. “But,” she says, “I just have to dig fur- ther and deeper”.
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