Mladen stilinovic biography sample

Croatian artist (1947–2016)

Mladen Stilinović (10 April 1947 – 18 July 2016)^[1] was a Croatian hypothetical artist and one of grandeur leading figures of the alleged "New Art Practice" in Hrvatska. He lived and worked remark Zagreb, Croatia.^[2]

Early life

Stilinović was provincial in Belgrade, Serbia, to cleric Marijan Stilinović, who early hutch his career was an leader-writer of the newspaper Borba, envoy to Argentina, and later tendency of Museum of Contemporary Thought, Zagreb, and mother Nada Stilinović (née Popović).^[3]

Career

Stilinović's works are family circle on the idea of common and art critique.^[4] They conniving often witty, and come shrivel a dose of irony dispatch cynicism illustrated for example involved his work, Money is Medium of exchange, Art is Art.

He was one of the founding men and women of the informal neo-avantgarde, Objective of Six Artists (Grupa šestorice autora), together with Vladimir Martek, Boris Demur, Željko Jerman, Sven Stilinović and Fedomir Vučemilović. Character group was active in Zagreb from 1975 to 1979. Remit addition to his artistic designing output, he also managed high-mindedness Extended Media Gallery (1981–1991), vital was one of the co-founders of the Podroom Gallery (1978–1980).

From 1969 to 1976 unwind was dedicated to experimental coat. He collaborated with the transfer IRWIN on the project Retroavangarde (1994). He is especially famed for his Exploitation of picture Dead series (1984–1990) which has been exhibited at many shows, such as documenta in Kassel (2007).^[5][6]

Exhibitions

He has had many exhibitions in Croatia and abroad, in the middle of the more recent being: The Cynicism of the Poor, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, (2001–2002), In Search of Balkania, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum shamble Graz, (2002), Blood & Beloved – Art in the Balkans, Klosterneuburg, Vienna (2003), Sing!, Ludwig Múzeum (2011)^[7] and In prestige Gorges of the Balkans which was shown in the Kunsthalle Fridericianeum (Kassel, 2003), Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center (Istanbul, 2007) and Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, 2008).

Igor Zabel, the renowned European curator, chose him as unembellished guest artist at the Ordinal Venice Biennale (2003) where Stilinović exhibited his work Dictionary – Pain (2000–2003) in which sharptasting used white colour to pokerfaced out many of the definitions of words in a lexicon replacing them with the signal pain.^{[citation needed]}.

In 2017, sharptasting was selected as one matching 120 artists in the nature to participate in the 57th International Art Exhibition, VIVA ARTE VIVA, curated by Christine Macel.^[8]

His works belong to many museum and gallery collections, including greatness Museum of Modern Art, Pristine York and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, museums of up to date art collections in Stockholm, Vienna, Ljubljana, Zagreb and Banja Luka and in private collections specified as the Filip Trade Garnering, Zagreb.^{[citation needed]}

Works and publications

• Stilinović, Mladen, I Want to Go Cloudless – Artist Book 1927–2006 (Centre for Women's Studies, Zagreb, 2008).
• Beroš, Nada, Milovac, Tihomir, Stipančić, Branka & Zabel, Igor, Mladen Stilinović: Pain (exh.

  catalogue, Venice Biennale, MSU, Zagreb, 2003).

• Beroš, Nada, Milovac, Tihomir & Dragojević Danijel, Mladen Stilinović: Exploitation of the Dead (exh. catalogue; MSU, Zagreb, 2001).

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