Patricija Rijavec Simonič - contemporary paintress
Patricija Rijavec Simonič
- She met the world of art as a child and upgraded her interest in painting and sculpture with an art high school.
- As an aspiring student of economics, she combined her talent and knowledge and thus she obtained a master’s degree in the field of art marketing.
- While later studying postmodern marketing, she wrote a book called “Soul Marketing”, where she derives from the generation of many abstractions of postmodern marketing, the capitalist transformation of art, and the concept of art marketing.
- Works as a visual artist, her works are based on the interaction of art, spirituality and philosophy, she gives them a strong painterly identity with which to strive to achieve the perfect identity of idea and image.
- Creates an extensive painting opus entitled She, in which she reveals the reminiscences and at the same time the intimate relationship of the archetypes of the female character, she entrusts her thoughts, views, feelings and personal message to the motivated chosen one. She/s are real and at the same time symbolic figure, representing a harmonious whole, captured in the artistic and content essence, in specificity and perfection.
PATRICIJA R. SIMONIČ, born in 1979 in Ptuj, Slovenia. After completing her secondary education in decorativeand design arts, she pursued a degree in economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business of University of Maribor, graduating in management in 2004. In 2006, she completed a specialist study programme in marketing communications, followed by a master's degree in art marketing in 2008. Patricija Rijavec Simonič has distinguished her self as aunique researcher in the field of postmodern marketing. As part of her doctoral studies, she published a book on the marketing of art, titled Marketing the Soul. In parallel with her academic work, she is also active as a visual artist. She is widely recognised in Slovenia as a painter and the author of an extensive series of paintings titled "She", which has been exhibited both domestically and internationally.
