ĆURČIĆ Petar
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ĆURČIĆ Petar
Painter
Born in 1938 in Novi Sad.
He graduated from Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad in 1963. Self-taught in drawing, painting and graphic arts. His first group exhibition was at 7th October Salon in Belgrade, 1966. He became member of ULUS and ULUV in 1967. His first one-man show was held in Novi Sad, in 1969.
One-man exhibitions: Novi Sad (10 times), Belgrade (5 times), Skopje, Ljubljana, New Zagreb, New Sarajevo, Split, Subotica, Sremski Karlovci, Freiburg, Neuhausen, Nürnberg.
Awards: 1st Novi Sad Salon, Novi Sad (1971); Art Colony of Bečej, Bečej (1978); Award of 2nd Zagreb Exhibition of Yugoslav Graphic Art, Zagreb (1980); First Award at the 8th Zagreb Exhibition of Yugoslav Drawing (1981); Award at the exhibiton "Yugoslav Manifestation of Graphic Culture, Subotica (1982); Award at the 31st ULUV Spring Exhibition, Sombor (1982); Award of “Forum” Publishing House for Painting, Novi Sad (1989); Award of the Museum of the Town of Sisak at the 16th Zagreb Exhibition of Yugoslav Graphic Art, Zagreb (1990); First award for Drawing, at the 1st Biennial of Yugoslav Drawing and Small Plastics, Belgrade (1993); Award for Drawing at October Salon, Novi Sad (1995); Award of the Danube Visual Arts Colony, Sremski Karlovci (1995); Award of the town of Senta “Zlatna sablja” (Golden Sabre), Senta (1997); Award for Painting at October Salon, Novi Sad (2001).
Homage to a plein-airist, oil on canvas, 54x65
Born in 1938 in Novi Sad.
He graduated from Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad in 1963. Self-taught in drawing, painting and graphic arts. His first group exhibition was at 7th October Salon in Belgrade, 1966. He became member of ULUS and ULUV in 1967. His first one-man show was held in Novi Sad, in 1969.
One-man exhibitions: Novi Sad (10 times), Belgrade (5 times), Skopje, Ljubljana, New Zagreb, New Sarajevo, Split, Subotica, Sremski Karlovci, Freiburg, Neuhausen, Nürnberg.
Awards: 1st Novi Sad Salon, Novi Sad (1971); Art Colony of Bečej, Bečej (1978); Award of 2nd Zagreb Exhibition of Yugoslav Graphic Art, Zagreb (1980); First Award at the 8th Zagreb Exhibition of Yugoslav Drawing (1981); Award at the exhibiton "Yugoslav Manifestation of Graphic Culture, Subotica (1982); Award at the 31st ULUV Spring Exhibition, Sombor (1982); Award of “Forum” Publishing House for Painting, Novi Sad (1989); Award of the Museum of the Town of Sisak at the 16th Zagreb Exhibition of Yugoslav Graphic Art, Zagreb (1990); First award for Drawing, at the 1st Biennial of Yugoslav Drawing and Small Plastics, Belgrade (1993); Award for Drawing at October Salon, Novi Sad (1995); Award of the Danube Visual Arts Colony, Sremski Karlovci (1995); Award of the town of Senta “Zlatna sablja” (Golden Sabre), Senta (1997); Award for Painting at October Salon, Novi Sad (2001).
Homage to a plein-airist, oil on canvas, 54x65
| Historian Gibbon says in one place that the Romans for nearly four centuries failed to realize that their civilization was decaying. Why should then other people, from other empires scattered in time, notice it? However, many inhabitants of the Fortress say that they can hear a monotonous sound of the death rattle. Petar Ćurčić has also heard it and recognized it as a sigh of the Western Civilization under a long-lasting process of decay: all that we have known as spirit or spirituality is decomposing and evaporating, and a nightmare or galimatias is created instead. Petar Ćurčić knows well that all we have is what we are doing right Now. Because, what has just been is the past, and what will be – well, is it going to be as Petar expects, or somehow quite different? That is why Petar is free from all the burdens of Time, and that is why he happily dwells among the numberless treasures of the bygone millennia. It seems that the 17th or 18th centuries are closest to him, but why should it matter at all when compared to another angle of vision – the eternity? |
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