Nina Sekulovic Art

“Art for art’s sake.” („L'art pour l'art“) Until a few years ago, I too believed in this principle without hesitation. I saw art as something almost untouchable: an immaterial, spiritual, transcendental creation of emotion and inner life, something diminished the moment a price is placed upon it, reduced to the marketplace and to commercial value. I believed that the moment art is given a number, it loses part of its nobility. How wrong I was. While attending the Mastery Programme at the...

You don’t need to know art history. You don’t need to be familiar with the biographies of great painters, nor to precisely distinguish between periods, styles, or movements. It is enough that, once, a painting stops you. That it draws you in, holds your gaze—and stays with you. You look at it for a long time, almost in wonder, asking yourself how the artist managed, with just a few strokes, to tell a story that feels strangely close to you. At first glance it may have nothing to do with you,...

Of all the emotions that journeys awaken, I would single out above all the desire to be present, to truly be there, in that specific moment and place, fully aware, with awakened senses. Even when we wander, not knowing what lies around the corner or what our next step will be, we do not feel lost, not in the usual sense of the word. On the contrary, the more “lost” we are in space and time, the more present we become, more conscious of ourselves and of what truly makes us feel alive, like a...