BIKICKI Jovan
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BIKICKI Jovan
Painter
(Srbobran, 1916 – Novi Sad, 1997)
Bikicki graduated from the School of Applied Arts – Decorative Painting Department in Belgrade (1951), in the Class of Professors Vinko Grdan, Vladimir Predojević and Vasa Pomorišac. He studied for two years at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade in the same line. During his studies and for a short time after, he worked in Ohrid, Macedonia, at the monasteries of the Holy Wisdom and St. Clement Slovensky, on the conservation and copying of medieval frescoes. From 1951 to 1956, he worked as a set designer for the Serbian National Theatre (Novi Sad) and the Popular Theatre of Tuzla. During 1956, he stayed in Paris for a while.
Member of ULUV since 1951 and of UPIDIV since 1967.
Fields of art: oil, watercolour, fresco copying, stained glass, tapestry, set design for theatre and TV.
Exhibited at 22 one-man shows and a large number of group exhibitions.
Awards: Golden Badge awarded by Serbia's Culture and Education Society, 1981; Grand Prix de Vitrail and Grand Prix d`Art Monumental, Nice (France), 1983; Diploma and Medaille Vermeil awarded by “Arts-Sciences-Letters” French Academic Soociety, Paris, 1984; Alfred Nobel Medal for Peace awarded by Albert Einstein Internationl Foundation, USA, 1992.
Birth on the Sea Floor, oil on canvas, 65x90, 1993
(Srbobran, 1916 – Novi Sad, 1997)
Bikicki graduated from the School of Applied Arts – Decorative Painting Department in Belgrade (1951), in the Class of Professors Vinko Grdan, Vladimir Predojević and Vasa Pomorišac. He studied for two years at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade in the same line. During his studies and for a short time after, he worked in Ohrid, Macedonia, at the monasteries of the Holy Wisdom and St. Clement Slovensky, on the conservation and copying of medieval frescoes. From 1951 to 1956, he worked as a set designer for the Serbian National Theatre (Novi Sad) and the Popular Theatre of Tuzla. During 1956, he stayed in Paris for a while.
Member of ULUV since 1951 and of UPIDIV since 1967.
Fields of art: oil, watercolour, fresco copying, stained glass, tapestry, set design for theatre and TV.
Exhibited at 22 one-man shows and a large number of group exhibitions.
Awards: Golden Badge awarded by Serbia's Culture and Education Society, 1981; Grand Prix de Vitrail and Grand Prix d`Art Monumental, Nice (France), 1983; Diploma and Medaille Vermeil awarded by “Arts-Sciences-Letters” French Academic Soociety, Paris, 1984; Alfred Nobel Medal for Peace awarded by Albert Einstein Internationl Foundation, USA, 1992.
Birth on the Sea Floor, oil on canvas, 65x90, 1993
| Some people think that the winding stairway of the Fortress, the one running form St. George's Convent up to the Second Ludwig Bastion, were built at the end of the 16th century. They might be right, but if they strongly believe it, then for them, the story ends there. Others, more courageous and crazy, are aware of the fragility and transience of human life just as they are aware of the eternity of the Universe. The latter always tread every second step and do not stop when they reach the end. Why should they? The stairway of the Fortress is the stairway to Heaven, and the Heaven is far above, unreachable… However, why not try to reach it? The word is, if we can believe it, that Jovan Bikicki often used to walk up these stairs and, once, failed to stop, blessed by a whole suite of saints he had (re)painted. Even today, the theologians of the Fortress, when it comes to a discussion about the stairs, argue about the question: are there limits to the Sky, or not… |
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