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Q1 What do you look out for when you're painting?
It is honestly a very automatic process; I decided that when painting the only real way forward was to go forward with each piece until completion without over-examination.
Q2 Does Sanja support you as a painter?
Yes, she liked the paintings before I did; she is a wonderful person and friend in every way. |
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Q3 Could you tell us your career as an artist? How did you get involved in art?
I didn't have a career in art, along with fashion I made decorative textiles for some years then moved more to drawing for several years, and all along there were many scattered personal projects over very many years which were in one visual media or another, much of it unfinished and/or lost, and finally it came together when I decided to paint all of it instead.
Q4 Where do you turn for inspiration for your painting?
They are based on more and less abstract themes, older and newer to me - sometimes from concrete visual themes such as a picture I took, or sometimes from imagined visual themes which appear from nowhere, or sometimes from more intellectual themes which are then played out visually; they are always based on some kind of real idea which can be focused on, even if that idea is esoteric or tenuous. |
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Q9 Could you describe your painting process?
Many of the paintings are based on photos (my rule is to only use photos that I took myself), so in that case I am making a variation on that picture; the rest of the paintings are based on a few different kinds of abstract ideas, so then it is also a matter of putting down an idea that is for the most part already finished, in any case the painting generally goes very quickly and is almost always very enjoyable, of course the end result is often quite different from the supposedly completed idea but that helps to make the actual process more interesting.
Q10 As a painter and a designer, what are your aspirations?
For the work to become more beautiful or somehow more worthwhile, interesting, or compelling - That is first and foremost. Also, it would be pleasant for the work to be more viable in the business sense. |
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Alyse Radenovic Speaks "I was born in 1973 and married in 2002. I am American. I worked since 1997 on fashion, I worked as an amateur artist in different types of media for most of my adult life, I started to paint in earnest in early 2007. The paintings are all acrylic, the style is somewhat abstract. Abstracted cityscapes based on my own photographs are the main focus of the work, the bulk of the pictured places are in Bosnia because that is where I fell in love."
Interview of Aelisheva is here |
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Q5 You are as a fabulous fashion designer, and as a talented painter. Could you talk about the various creative aspects of your job?
Thank you very much. The creative aspect of the job makes up a small part of the time that is available, when there is time, then everything is made quickly because the ideas are all already finished and have been waiting a long time to be made, they compete with each other to be made in the hours that are available, many are never made, some which are made are not good and must be reworked. In art, I do many new variations of the same themes which I have done for a long time. In fashion, Sanja and I do many new variations of our own and one another's themes which we have done for a long time, to the point where one and the other's work is intertwined indistinguishably.
Q6 When is the best time to paint in a day?
Every time is good except for around mid-afternoon, but that is okay too. |
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Q7 Who is your favorite painter (or an artist)?
Of the famous artists, Rodchenko and Malevich.
Q8 How do you represent yourself through the artwork?
I am not sure, I don’t consider the work to have too much to do with me personally in any way that could be clearly understood by looking backwards from the finished work, but maybe I am wrong. |
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