Gligor Stefanov (born 1956 SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a sculptor and environmental installations artist, who lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. [1]
He graduated at the Belgrade Art Academy with an M.A. Gligor Stefanov has participated in eighteen one-man exhibitions and in more than 100 group exhibitions in many countries, including the Venice Biennale, in Italy. [2]
He creates site-specific works, paintings and drawings, religious and eco-art with organic materials. [3] From the beginning of his career, Stefanov treated sculpture as an object or an installation of objects situated in space. In 1988, narrative aspects of his work shifted from mythology to religion. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he produced a series of objects and installations, in the form of angels' wings and discs, executed in straw and boards or tree trunks and branches. [4]
Stefanov has participated in more than 100 group exhibitions since 1973, among which are:
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Edo Murtić was a painter from Croatia, best known for his lyrical abstraction and abstract expressionism style. He worked in a variety of media, including oil painting, gouache, graphic design, ceramics, mosaics, murals and theatrical set design. Murtić travelled and exhibited extensively in Europe and North America, gaining international recognition for his work, which can be found in museums, galleries and private collections worldwide. He was one of the founders of the group "March" (Mart) in 1956, and received many international awards. In 1958 Murtić participated in the three biggest events in the world of contemporary art: the Venice Biennale, the Carnegie Prize in Pittsburgh, and Documenta in Kassel. Interest in the art of Edo Murtić continues to grow, with retrospective exhibits in major museums.
Oton Gliha was a Croatian artist, born in Slovenia. A graduate of the Academy of fine Arts in Zagreb, Gliha continued his studies in Paris, Vienna and Munich. He is best known for his series of abstract paintings based on the patterns of the drystone walls of coastal Croatia. The first in the series appeared in 1954, and it was a theme he developed for the rest of his life.
Petar Lubarda ; 27 July 1907 – 13 February 1974) was a Serbian painter.
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Vessna Perunovich is a Yugosla-born, Canadian / Serbian visual artist based in Toronto, Ontario and Belgrade, Serbia. She was born in 1960 in Zaječar, Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia. Her father was originally from Montenegro and her mother was from Serbia, born in North Macedonia. She immigrated with her family husband and daughter to Toronto in 1988. She earned her B.F.A in 1984 at the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. She earned her M.F.A. also from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Belgrade in 1987. In 2004, she was invited to the University of Guelph in Ontario to guest lecture. In 2004 she was invited to participate at the thematic Artist Residency Informal Architectures Symposium in Banff, Alberta to create work and to do an artist presentation. She was a sessional teacher at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto from 2005 until 2011. Her most recent artist presentation was at the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade coinciding with her solo survey exhibition at the Gallery-Legacy Milica Zorić and Rodoljub Čolaković in 2023. Other artist presentation include Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and the other one in Havana, Cuba for the "International Artists' Presentation".
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