Selman Trtovac
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Life
Born in ZadarZadar
Zadar is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea. It is the centre of Zadar county and the wider northern Dalmatian region. Population of the city is 75,082 citizens...
, on August 14 1970. From 1990 until 1993 he studied fine arts at the Faculty of Art in Belgrade. In 1993 he moved to Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, formerly Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, is the Arts Academy of the city of Düsseldorf. It is well known for having produced many famous artists, such as Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Thomas Demand, and Andreas Gursky...
, in the art class of professor Klaus Rinke, where he was declared to be a Master of Art in 1997. In 2000. he finished his studies. In the same year he returned to Belgrade. In 2002 he became a member of ULUS (Association of Fine Artists of Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
). The next year he became a member of International Artists Forum. He lives and works in Belgrade and Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
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Art
Selman Trtovac belongs to the generation of artists who have articulated their artistic language in Belgrade and Düsseldorf during the last decade of 20th century. At the beginning of nineties, he was active in Belgrade Students Cultural Center. In 1993. he moved to Düssseldorf where he continued his artistic path of development in the art class of Klaus Rinke. Education acquired at Belgrade Faculty of Art, where the traditional artistic techniques had been cheriched, proved to be a good background for the further education at the Düsseldorf Art Academy whose programs had been founded on the modern artistic experience of the sixties and seventies. Working with two famous artists-professors exerted a significant influence on this artist, both on his artistic language and his comprehension the essence of art. Those are Klaus Rinke, as a German conceptual artConceptual art
Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...
ist, and Jannis Kounellis
Jannis Kounellis
Jannis Kounellis was born on March 23, 1936 in Piraeus, Greece. He studied in art college in Athens until 1956 and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome....
as the important artist in the frame of Italian art movement Arte Povera
Arte Povera
Arte Povera is a modern art movement. The term was introduced in Italy during the period of upheaval at the end of the 1960s, when artists were taking a radical stance. Artists began attacking the values of established institutions of government, industry, and culture, and even questioning whether...
. Sublimation of those two influences – academic understanding of the fine arts and also the heritage of Moderna
Modern art
Modern art includes artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of...
, produced original artistic language which expresses symbolic forms that comes from concrete existential experience. The development of his artistic expression is obvious in the series of his works which have been realized and exhibited from 1997 until today.
Biography
- 2009. Exhibition Dialectics, (together with Artist Radoš Antonijvić), Gallery Magacin, Belgrade
- 2009. Exhibition Hand of Artist - Black Hand/Hand of the Murderer, (together with Ilija Šoškić), Gallery Arte, Belgrade
- 2008. Exhibition Ex nihilo nihil fit, Gallery Osmica MKM BelgradeBelgradeBelgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
- 2007. Exhibition “... those who seek for the extremes to understand where the mean is!”, Gallery of the Contemorary Art SmederevoSmederevoSmederevo is a city and municipality in Serbia, on the right bank of the Danube, about 40 km downstream of the capital Belgrade. According to official results of the 2011 census, the city has a population of 107,528...
- 2006. Exhibition I shall illuminate the dark side of the moon, 150. Birthday of Nikola TeslaNikola TeslaNikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer...
, (artistic group Faust-Manifest), Gallery Belgrade public bath, Belgrade - 2005 Exhibition and congress of IKG (International Artists Forum), OHNE GRENZEN - WITHOUT BORDERS - PIIRIDETA, Museum of EstoniaEstoniaEstonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
n Architecture, TallinnTallinnTallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of with a population of 414,940. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg. Tallinn's Old Town is in the list... - 2004 Exhibition 10 years of Konkordija, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade
- 2004 IKG Congress, LodzLódzŁódź is the third-largest city in Poland. Located in the central part of the country, it had a population of 742,387 in December 2009. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is approximately south-west of Warsaw...
i Nieborow, PolandPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north... - 2003 Exhibition Re-discovered, History Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade
- 2001 Exhibition Omnibus, Recapitulation, Gallery SKC, Belgrade
- 1999 Object The Hand of the Murderer - Mano negra, (group exhibition), Studio Stefania Miscetti, RomRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
- 1998 Guest on the Exhibition Jannis Kounellis Class , Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade
- 1997 Exhibition Contemporaneo, Museum Pinacoteca Molaioli di Fabriano, ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
- 1997 Exhibition Saldo, Museum KunstpalastMuseum kunst palastThe Museum Kunstpalast is an art museum in Düsseldorf, Germany.- History :The Museum Kunst Palast was founded as Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, a typical communal arts collection in Germany. The first exhibits were given by the popular regent Jan Wellem, Duke of Palatinate, and his wife Anna Maria Luisa...
, Düsseldorf - 1991 16 Biennale of young artists, Museum of modern Art, RijekaRijekaRijeka is the principal seaport and the third largest city in Croatia . It is located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and has a population of 128,735 inhabitants...