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Born 1966 in Novi Sad Educated in painting at the Art Academy in Novi Sad. She is the founder of the 1993 award winning ”TOTO Group”, which has created interdisciplinary projects, using for example drawing, painting, sculpture, video art and performance. She frequently has given art workshops and has also been active as pedagogue in an art research project with talented youths. She researches and is active in the field of art, spirituality and esoterism . Zlatica Maksimovic´ is a versatile and noticed artist, who expresses herself for example through the different medias painting, sculpture, performance, installations, happenings and video. Some words from Zlatica Maksimovic, the artist herself: ”This essay describe the image of the existence on the Balkans, i.e. the path to the pictures of Angels, which were made in Novi Sad, Serbia. The spirit that have lead me has sprung out of Balkans genetics mix, so my path (as an artist) is the reflection of the destiny of this part of the planet as well. The soul is preparing itself through the pain. We can approach to Love and God more easily while the stability of the individual values on which we can rely, is collapsing." Text written by Mr.Dejan Suvajdic, journalist: ”When the name of Zlatica Maksimovic is mentioned in the artistic circles, first thing that comes to mind is her work within TOTO group (Totally Organized Theatrical Relation) and performances which broke into pieces cliches of the artistic expression. After 1995, she changed her artistic expression a great deal and surprised everyone. Searching the new ways to express herself, Zlatica went to Monastery in Beocin on Fruska Gora. That was the place where the series of paintings with Angles was born. Twenty pieces have comprised all the pain of time in which they were born. Material values being absolutely unreachable and the country being under the iron curtain, the only artistic response possible was the spiritual compensation. Even spiritual values could only be found within oneself and not in the surrounding. The complete isolation and monastic discipline were the best encouragement for this process. The Angel as the motif symbolizes the faith and hope that all is not lost. Gentle shades of 'Byzantine Blue' seems to tell the story how the misfortune and its passing are the principal components of this part of the world. The faces of Angels are sending this message to the audience having almost sedative effect. If someone was fortunate enough to see these paintings in that particular time and at that particular place, he or she would go back to every-day life feeling calmer and certain that the good will gain the victory over the evil. That impression is the fundamental value of Zlatica Maksimovic's paintings. The most dangerous weapon, the impression that one has to the audience, Zlatica has used the best way possible - To make the world and mankind better. Well, is not that the true goal of an Angel?” Text written by Mr.Zolt Lazar, M.A. sociology: ”The entire artistic work of Zlatica Maksimovic represents the process of her spiritual growth. She is purifying her emotions and becomes aware of the intentions through her paintings, artistic installations and multimedia projects always trying to reach the higher level of integration of the personality. In that sense, Zlatica is not a typical artist at all, since the catharsis of the artistic creation is the act of becoming aware in her case, not the short - term deceptive intermezzo before the new, even deeper crisis. Thus being stronger, she is always searching for the deeper roots of imbalance of basic factors which we are built from through her artistic projects . Her early works irresistible resemble alchemical experiments with the prima materia, in which the seed of the individual self is being born in great pain. The restless shapes of bright and uncomplimentary colors are the result of hectic search for the path she cannot see, but she knows is present. The color reduction and transfer to the monochromatic expression, which is her distinctive mark even today in different variations, is being equalized with disciplined decisiveness of warrior's, Don Juans' kind of recapitulation. Zlatica solves her inner dilemmas by turning to love, as the basic principle of Christianity. This change on her canvases is being expressed by the appearance of mystic light, which gets into fantastic temples and surreal monastic cloisters, bringing the hints of complete awareness. Finally, the spirit speaks through its messengers - her Angles seem like the emanations of kabbalistic sephirots, not just because of the colors and shapes, but also for the powerful presence, which does not tolerate oscillations and discrepancies on the journey to spiritualization. Yet, any resolution is just the platform for the new ascending. The artistic work is the work on oneself and only as such has the meaning for Zlatica Maksimovic.” |
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# The program is placed under the GNU Public License (GPL)
# gburgyan@cybercon.com
# counter or counterbanner or counterfiglet
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# Outputs the number of times a specific page has been accessed.
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# is named:
#
# The counter can "take arguments" via its name. That is, if you tack
# -arg to the end of the program name, -arg is taken to be an argument.
# For example, if you call the counter 'counter-ord', '-ord' is considered
# an argument, and an ordinal count (1st, 2nd, 3rd, ...) will be printed
# instead of (1, 2, 3, ...). Note that counterord does the same thing as
# counter-ord for backward compatibility.
#
# Currently recognized arguments:
#
# -f=font sets "font" to be the font for figlet
# -nc no count; don't to write the incremented count back to the file
# -nl no link; don't automatically generate a link
# -ord make an ordinal count instead of regular
# -doc=document override the DOCUMENT_URI environment variable
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# This will cause the counter to call figlet as the output routine, printing
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# Only one *TEXT* file is used for the whole server.
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# Easily customizable with symlinks so only one actual copy of the
# counter is ever needed.
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# Possible flaws:
# It requires server-side includes to be turned on unless you use a
# CGI script to handle the parsing. Such a script is available from
# http://www.webtools.org/ssis/ssis
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# Requires one of the most ridiculous methods possible for passing arguments.
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# with "/" instead of "-" such that the environment variable PATH_INFO is
# used to pass arguments in any order and without symlinks.
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# An even sillier one than counterbanner. :)
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