Margareta Peršić

Stvaram, dakle jesam ! “. Rodena u Zagrebu 1976, pozavršav-ala neke škole, onu životnu još tešem. Izradujem lutke i male im haljinice, bojam slike i slikovnice, pri

povijedam price i bajke i u jednoj od njih perem posude. Članica sam HSZU a i ULUPUHa i slobodna skoro, baš ko ptica !

GALERIJA SV. KRŠEVANA ŠIBENIK16. travnja - 5. svibnja 2018.

Nakladnik: Galerija sv. Krševana Šibenik • Za nakladnika: Antonija Modrušan • Tekst: Margareta Peršić • Oblikovanje kataloga: Valentino Dražić-Celić • Postav izložbe: Margareta Peršić • Grafička priprema i tisak: Print - Centar Šibenik • Naklada: 200 kom

MARGARETA PERŠIĆ

99

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99This is a folk tale of a king who had a happy and satisfied servant. The king was greatly puzzled by all that but his advisor explained that the servant did not belong to the circle of 99, while adding that he had planted a bag containing 99 gold coins on the same servant in order to prove that he was right. Since then, the servant regularly counted his treasure and pondered on all possible ways how to get one more gold coin, thereby achieving per-fection. He became jaded, exhausted and dissat-isfied over time. He joined the circle of 99 but was dismissed by the king, who did not want to have such a person serving him.

The exhibition entitled 99 comprises my work presented as 99 puppets created with combined techniques (illustration, puppetry), mainly from re-cycled materials reflecting incentives from my envi-ronment in the form of people that made a strong impression on me when I encountered them as well as sentences and thoughts from the poems and books I have read, which have served me as guiding thoughts in this period of my life.I challenge myself as an artist: am I able to create without being paid for it? Is each of my works au-tomatically a gold coin?

Does each of the following works lead to a perfect number – or satisfaction? Is the process of creation self-satisfying or it is necessary to make a whole complete?

Will I have inspiration, with no apparent repetition, for all of my puppets, thus managing to empha-size the specificity of emotions I am led by or I will fall into the repetitive trap of the market and com-mercial value?

What is there for me at the end of the journey, when I make 99 puppets and finish their stories? I wonder if the number 99 will make me give in to its inevitability and end up exhibiting my 100th puppet.

I am eager to know if those viewing these scenes will reach for the offered material and make a hun-dredth one by themselves, thus sparing me dilem-mas and fears.

Will I have to put my exhibits up for sale and turn them into real gold coins, thus replacing all the efforts, determination and part of my life with a means of payment?

The purpose of this exhibition is to pose questions. I have no answers. I can’t affirm any theses, I just want to satisfy my curiosity and find out if I will fall into the same trap as the servant did or I will learn again that the power of creation is enough for happiness.

PS Is the exhibition catalogue equivalent to a hun-dredth gold coin?

Margareta Peršić was born in Zagreb in 1976. In 2000 she graduated from the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, with the thesis Story, Picture, Picture Book. She has been actively engaged in using colours as a means of her artis-tic expression, toys and puppets design, juggling, storytelling and interior design for the last twenty years. Margareta has participated in numerous pedagogical projects in Croatia and abroad and she has also run different puppetry, drama and art workshops. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts - Section for Toys and Puppets Design as well as Section for Applied Painting, Illustration, Cartoon, Comic Book and Animated Film. Margareta Peršić has been a member of the Croatian Freelance Artists’ Associa-tion since 2010 and she is also a member of the Croatian Centre for Drama Education. She has had eighteen solo exhibitions and has participated in about sixty group exhibitions. In 2017 she gradu-ated from the Research Institute for Waldorf Edu-cation in Zagreb.

She lives and works in Zagreb.

Tel: 091 518 4168E-mail:magipersic@gmail.comFacebook: Margareta PeršićMagisdolls.com

99Priča je to iz naroda o kralju koji je imao sretnog i zadovoljnog slugu. Kralj se tome uvelike čudio,a savjetnik mu je objasnio da sluga ne spada u krug od 99 i podmetnuo istom sluzi vreću s 99 zlatnika da dokaže svoju tezu. Od tog doba slu-ga je stalno prebrojavao svoje blago i razmišljao na sve moguće načine kako da dođe do još tog jednog zlatnika i postigne savršenstvo. S vre-menom je postao natmuren, umoran i nezadovol-jan. Upao je u krug od 99, a kralj ga je otpustio , ne želeći imati pokraj sebe takvog slugu.

Izložba pod radnim nazivom „99“, obuhvaća moj rad pretočen u 99 „lutkoslika“, izrađenih kom-biniranom tehnikom (ilustracija, lutkarstvo) ug-lavnom od recikliranih materijala, koje prikazuju poticaje iz moje okoline u vidu ljudi koje sam sus-retala, a ostavili su trag u meni, rečenice i misli iz pjesama i knjiga koje sam čitala, koje su bile moje misli vodilje u ovom periodu života.

Stavljam pred sebe izazov kao umjetnica: mogu li samo stvarati bez ikakve novčane naknade i da li je svaki moj rad automatski i zlatnik? Da li me svaki slijedeći rad vodi do savršenog broja? Ili zadovoljstva? Da li je proces stvaranja samois-punjavajući ili je potrebno zaokružiti cjelinu?

Hoću li imati inspiracije, bez očitog ponavljanja u svakoj lutkoslici i uspjeti istaknuti posebnost emocija koje me vode ili ću upasti u repetitivnu zamku tržišta i komercijalne vrijednosti?

Što li ću sresti na kraju puta, kada izradim 99 lu-taka i završim njihove priče? Hoće li brojka 99 neminovnošću svojom, natjerati me da prijeđem prag i izložim 100 lutku?

Hoće li promatrači tih scena posegnuti za podas-trijetim materijalom i sami izraditi stotu i spasiti me dilema i strahova?

Hoću li dati izloške „na bubanj“ i pretvoriti ih u prave zlatnike i tako zamijeniti trud, volju, dio života sa platežnim sredstvom?

Ovom izložbom postavljam pitanja. Nemam odgovore. Ne potvrđujem nikakve teze, samo želim zadovoljiti svoju znatiželju i vidjeti hoći li i sama upasti u istu zamku u koju je upao sluga ili ću otkriti nanovo da je stvaralačka moć dovoljna za sreću!?

P.S. Da li je katalog s izložbe ekvivalent stotom zlatniku?

Margareta Peršić, rođena je u Zagrebu 1976. gdje je 2000. godine završila Pedagošku aka-demiju na temu „Priča, slika, slikovnica“. Protek-lih dvadeset godina aktivno se bavi i pronalazi veliko veselje u umjetničkom izražavanju boja-ma, izradi igračaka i lutaka, žongliranju, pripovi-jedanju priča te uređenju prostora. Margareta je sudjelovala na mnogim pedagoškim projektima kako u Hrvatskoj tako i u inozemstvu te vodila brojne lutkarske, dramske i likovne radionice. Ak-tivna je članica ULUPUH-a u sekciji za izradu ig-račaka i lutaka te sekciji za ilustraciju, karikaturu, strip, animirani film i primijenjeno slikarstvo. Član-ica je Hrvatske zajednice samostalnih umjetnika (HZSU) od 2010. godine te Hrvatskog centra za dramski odgoj (HCDO). Imala je osamnaest sa-mostalnih, te sudjelovala na šezdesetak grupnih izložbi. 2017 godine diplomirala je na Institutu za waldorfsku pedagogiju u Zagrebu (IWP).

Živi i radi u Zagrebu, Botinečka 5,

tel: 091 518 4168e-mail: magipersic@gmail.comfacebook: Margareta PeršićMagisdolls.com

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