KUZMANOV Slobodan · Kuza
KUZMANOV Slobodan · Kuza
Painter, Graphic designer, Tapestry artist, Draughtsman
Born in Novi Sad in 1947.
Finished Secondary School of Applied Arts (Interior Architecture Dept.) in Novi Sad in 1967. From 1969 to 1974, worked as art/technical editor of the student magazine INDEX. Member of UPIDIV since 1969. Has earned entries in two visual arts encyclopedias of Yugoslavia.
Group exhibitions: Zagreb, Belgrade, Novi Sad, Sremski Karlovci, Sarajevo, Svetozarevo/Jagodina, Sremska Mitrovica, Montreal, Paris, Bratislava, Wroclaw…
One-man show: Novi Sad (5) and Vienna.
Awards: Award for modern cartoon at the International Salon of Cartoon, Montreal (1970); 'Reaching Adulthood' Award for Art Cartoon, Novi Sad (1970); 6th prize for cartoon at International Salon of Cartoon, Montreal (1971); 1st prize of SLUPUJ for UNESCO poster, Belgrade (1971); May Salon Prize, Experiment 5, for poster, Belgrade (1973).
The Bull, copper print, 2002
| The first plan of the Fortress was made by military engineer Colonel Kaiserfeld, and the second one by the geographer Marsigli. When the two saw the drawings of Gibraltar on the Danube in their dreams, could they imagine that hundreds of years later, Slobodan Kuzmanović Kuza would be crossing the frozen River, towards the Fortress? First, of course, he had to be born, what he actually was in a house in 4 Lovćenska Street; then, he was looking, for a long time, over the sands of Liman, with puddles and willows, toward the Unconquerable Fortress. One winter, he set out to cross the frozen river. He made only fifty steps and fell through the ice. However, the Fortress gave him power of three cats and three tomcats and an iceberg to save him. Next time, he went on foot, over the “Maršal Tito” Bridge, to the foot of the Fortress, and then continued along a narrow path. He met the sculptor Prof. Jovan Soldatović, the painter Prof. Boško Petrović, the sculptor Pavle Radovanović, the painter Emil Bob, with whom he made ceramic items, the painter Jovan Bikicki, Mrs. Etelka Tobolka - the great manager of Art Workshop "Atelje 61", a great arstist Nikola Popržan, supreme craftsman for forged copper, with whom he worked on the Holy Mother of God at the Bođane monastery, and maestro Momčilo Petrović, specialist in wood carving and restoration, with whom he made a door for the Chilandari monastery. Slobodan Kuzmanović came to know them and hasn't left the Fortress ever since. |
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Address (studio): Petrovaradinska tvrđava, Atelje 6, 21000 Novi Sad,
Phone: +381 21 435 606
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