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Vladimir Velickovic

"The violence in reality, the violent reality, was always for me a kind of compulsory double. "

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Notes of biography

Vladimir Velickovic is born in Belgrade (Yugoslavia) in 1935. He graduates from the Faculty of Architecture of this city. He is however intended to painting and produces his first solo exhibition in 1963. He works in Zagreb in the studio of painter Krsto Hegedusic (1962-1963). Velickovic receives the Paris Biennial Price in 1965; Paris where he settles down the following year. The artist represents Yugoslavia at the Venice Biennial in 1972. He is foreman at the Superior National School of Fine Arts in Paris from 1983 to 2000. Witness, in his childhood, of the atrocities committed by the Nazis in Yugoslavia, his paintings express the pain and violence of this memory. In the early sixties, Vladimir Velickovic determines the themes that appear permanently in his work. He paints men or animals (usually rats or dogs) whose bodies are confronted with dramatic and terrifying situations. Velickovic "tries leaving over more a scar" in the memory of the picture viewer; "the violence in reality, the violent reality, was always for me a kind of imposed double," says the artist. He lives and works in Paris.

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To read about the artist :
  • « Velickovic », Marc le Bot, in Opus Int., n°69, Ed. Georges Fall, Paris, 1978
  • « Velickovic », Xavier Xuruguera, in Cimaise Arts actuels, n°239, Paris, 1996
  • « Portrait d'oeil », Bernard Noël, J-F. Bonhomme, Ed. Fata Morgana, 1998
  • « V. Velickovic, splendeur de la Catastrophe », Michel Onfray, Ed. Galilée, 2003
  • « V. V., Symbole et Suggestion… », S. Lazarevic, Ed. Astimbo, Belgrade, 2003
  • « Karton », Michel Onfray, Ed. Thalia, Paris, 2006
  • « La peinture de Vladimir Velickovic », Michel Onfray, Ed. Galilée, 2007
  • « V. Velickovic : composition créative », S. Lazarevic, Ed. Rima, Belgrade, 2010
  • « V. Velickovic, les versants du silence », collectif, Ed. Liénart/Les Abattoirs, 2011
  • « La comédie », Dante, Velickovic, Ed. Esopie, 2018
To read from the artist :
  • « L'atelier de V. V. », entretien avec E. Artaud, Ed. Thalia, Paris, 2009
  • « V.V, Le choix du noir » et « V.V, Le grand dessin », films de F. Catonné, 2013
Website :
www.vladimirvelickovic.com

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