Rhapsody in Red, oil on canvas, 100x80cm, 1998
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In the Art Studio
Selected artwork is available at 'The Saatchi Gallery - Contemporary Art in London' (click on the link to view)
Some of the important dates in the artist's biography: November 2007 Exhibits online at 'The Saatchi Gallery - Contemporary Art in London'
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2007 Donates a vibrant stylized landscape scene depicting fields of grass, restored seascape and a collection of stamps dating to the time of the First Yugoslavia to the Slavic Department at the University of Kansas.
Click here to view the 'Lawrencian' article about the gift on page four (A gift from Pancevo, Serbia)
From 11 to 17 July 2006 Participates in the humanitarian auction 'Bells of Metohija' organized by the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
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26 March 2004 Participates in the joint Association of Fine Artists of Serbia project 'Kosovo and Metohija - the spiritual heritage,' Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
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2002Participates in the group exhibition at Wessenberg-Galerie, Konstanz, Germany ('Der Moment der Bildenden Kunst in Pancevo') July 2001 'la premiere banque donnees dediee aux biographies d'artistes' - Artprice publishes artist's biography, Lyon, France
2000 participates in the 'Sopocanska vidjenja' (Sopocani is a medieval town) group exhibition
February 1998 Launches a single art exhibition at the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia gallery, downtown Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1998 Launches a single art exhibition at the 'Bozidar Adzija' gallery, located in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1990 Single exhibition in the 'Stara Kapetanija' gallery, located in Zemun, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1989 Single exhibition in 'Olga Petrov' the city of Pancevo cultural centre modern gallery, Pancevo, Yugoslavia 1987 Becomes a member of the Serbian Association of Fine Artists (ULUS).
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1986 The Starcevo 'City Hall Gallery' group exhibition, Starcevo, Yugoslavia
1985 Single exhibition at the National Army ('JNA') gallery. Pancevo, Yugoslavia
1982 Single exhibition in the city of Pancevo's cultural centre gallery, Pancevo, Yugoslavia
1982 Group exhibition in the Memorial Dome 'Mija Stanimirovic,' Nis, Yugoslavia
1977 Starcevo, the 'City Hall Gallery' single exhibition, Starcevo, Yugoslavia
1977, 1979 Single exhibition in the city of Pancevo's 'Educators' Dome' gallery, Pancevo, Yugoslavia
1975 Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in the class of professor Zoran Petrovic. Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1969 - 1970 Studied art in the class of professor Josef Mikl at Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien).
1968 - present Participated in all summer and winter art colonies 'Deliblatski Pesak.' Participated in the Danube art colony 'Dunavom do slike' in 1995 and 1996 and the "Bela Crkva' colony.
Invited to the colonies in the city of Strumica (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 1981), where he painted the portrait of the academic - general Apostolski, Resice (Romania,1983), Maturuska Banja (Serbia, 2004) and the winter art colony in the city of Zrenjanin (Serbia, 2006).
Participated in over 300 group exhibitions in Yugoslavia and abroad. His artwork is in the private and institutional collections in Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Greece, France, the United States, Germany and Austria.
Significant group exhibitions:
- October salon 1987 and 1991
- The Spring exhibition of Ulus members, Belgrade 1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1994,1995,1996,1997,1999 and 2001
- The Fall exhibition of Ulus members, Belgrade 1996
Landscape Motives from the Stara Planina Mountain
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LANDSCAPE SYMPHONY
by Sava Stepanov, an internationally recognized art critic from Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
"ULUS Gallery From February 11th to 24th 1998
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Published
1998
The Painter Vlastimir Madic belongs to those numerous landscape-fans, especially the lovers of the "Deliblatski pesak" (Virgin's well territory with sand dunes in Vojvodina) who knew to articulate their impressions and enthusiasm into a painterly definite statements, and to work out their proper attitude and expression.
His devotion to the landscape subjects has been explained throughout his creative development and it is possible to make a conclusion about synchronized maturation of the landscape painting together with the ripening of his creative personality as a painter... In his early paintings:
Vlastimir Madic tried to fit the painting subject with the look of a perceived landscape. Nevertheless, by gradually breaking down the pictorial unity of the plastic unit into elements (color line, composition, rhythm), which formals were becoming more and more autochthonous features, Madic entered considerably the territory of the pure painting as a media in his own right, as an expressive authenticity.
Boyhood dreams revealed: "Stara Planina" mountainous region in Southern Serbia
Vlastimir Madic insisted on the unity of all elements engaged in the painting, he searched for a coherent painted work, and to achieve goal he had to sacrifice something. Nevertheless, in the paintings which are now emerging in his studio, and which are present at this exhibition, there are significant changes in this sense. More decisive, Madic here breaks with the mimetic link with the motive and enters the field of the abstraction. But there is nothing spectacular and unexpected about this change, but only a harmonious transposition originated from the continuous action, from the logical changes in the understanding of pictorial organism. The most significant changes originate in the realm of color, the composition is liberated of the steel reinforcement-like network of the lines transformed into color, because the painter allows the paint to drip into the canvass in thin paths (dripping technique). This dripping is strongly controlled, and even there the impression of geometric structuralism is imposed. Yet, Madic makes the necessary move, and in so obtained structure introduces color accents, coloristic rich surfaces which have the expressive value of pictorial data where it is possible to recognize the elements of a new understanding of the painting and also a special art poetics, charged with the sensibility so close "hotte" contemporary observer and his/her esthetic needs.
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LANDSCAPE EXPERIENCES of VLASTIMIR MADIC
by Dusan Djokic, an internationally recognized art critic from Belgrade, Serbia
Stara Kapetanija Gallery From February 6th to 18th 1990
Zemun, Yugoslavia
Published
1990
In the series of the paintings, which were the result of the thorough Vlastimir Madic's work in the past decade, there are some characteristics that are showing unique maturing and rounding up of previous experiences, finding of the space of work where the typological structure and symbolism surface, a separate genre line lead by a moderate expression and concentration on seemingly narrower motive coordinates.
A landscape or a territory seen from a distance with a lifted horizon is presented more like 'an activity field' rather than the simplistic vision, and therefore it has become closer to the interpretation of the painting as of something autonomous, almost abstract cadre, which, singled out in a chosen chromatic of lighter and darker brown, umbra, pigeon blue, with a free curvature of darker expressions, forms a conglomerate like structure, alike a formation of dried up roots or that of a landscape ruined by a drought.
Egzotic Landscape, oil on canvas, 1987
That simultaneously warm and complicated note became the main characteristic of these paintings, which have, besides the sidelined figurative base, kept all the strength of the form, which have, in the distant association, figuratively speaking, taken something even erotic, with a tone, formed with the nature forces and the feeling of deep unity of all components. Some of these paintings Madic painted in the open, at the beautiful fields and landscapes of the Deliblatska Pescara region, that new Southern Banat 'Barbison', but within which there is no simplistic weekend painting; rather, in their toned down dramaticism there is a much more complex and more serious dialogue with the actual landscape, somewhere between the differences and parallel among the generations of older landscape artists from the initial artist colonies and those that are emerging now. Like a real 'knight of the brush,' on these canvases, Madic is leaving the footsteps of a battle field.
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