Afer graduating University, I spent several years on a study tour of Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Greece and Germany. On return to Serbia, I began a career in architecture and started the frst private atelier for architecture and painting in Belgrade, Serbia. Starting in 1984, my professional career in painting began. I embraced abstract expressionism as my style, which always seemed the most natural way to express and translate my feelings and thoughts onto canvas.
In the early 90’s, as an established painter, I began a series of paintings under the musical infuence of Gustav Mahler’s music. I re-visited this muse more recently, painting larger scale pieces using various scores of Mahler’s work. Since then, I’ve applied the same method of translating classical music to canvas with many diferent composers.
SOLO/GROUP EXIBITIONS 2014 Fifh solo exhibition in prestigious Ozon Gallery, Belgrade.
04-10 Ten group events in the gallery Arlekino, Belgrade.
2005 Forth solo exhibition in a private gallery showing at Belgrade’s City Hall.
2003 Tird solo exhibition of large sale paintings in “Gallery 73”. Đorđe Kadijević opened the exhibition.
94-03 Seven group exhibitions in Leonardo Gallery, Belgrade.
1999 Second solo exhibition in gallery “Beograd”. Large scale paintings were exhibited. Te exhibition was opened by the curator of National Museum of Serbia, Nikola Kusovac, leading art critic in ex-Yugoslavia and most famous expert in the feld of Yugoslav painting.
1994 First time I held a solo exhibition of my large scale paintings in art gallery “Belgrade”. Stanislav Živković opened the exhibition, curator of the SANU Gallery (Srpska Akademija Nauka i Umetnosti – Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts) – institution of highest national importance.
86-94 During this eight year period, a total of 16 group exhibitions in Beograd Gallery, Belgrade.
AWARDS 01-05 I was appointed President to the leading board of the prestigious “Gallery 73”. I worked on annual programs for the gallery with Đorđe Kadijević, a leading art critic and professor of art history
1995 I became a member of ULUS (Udruženje Likovnih Umetnika Srbije – Association of Artists of Serbia) with status/rank of independent artist.
1971 First prize on the competition run by “Pivo Karamatijević Foundation – Annual prize”.
REPRESENTATION 2015 Conductor of Baltimore Philharmonia Orchestra asked to showcase certain painting through various social media platforms.
1998 Rectorate of Belgrade University ofcially orders a classical portrait of Dragutin Veličković. Te painting is part of a permanent display in the Ceremonial hall of the Rectorate. Paintings found here are considered to be work from the greatest Serbian painters.
1985 I printed a series of graphics in screen printing technique. Tis launched my career further and opened opportunities throughout Belgrade, Serbia
84-90 Temporarily I worked in my atelier in Berlin, showcasing paintings of classical portraits and fgurations with elaborated expressionistic style
EDUCATION 67-68 School of painting “Šumatovac”
68-74 Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade
68-76 Atelier of Professor Grigorije Samojlov (cum Laude)
AUTHOR STATEMENT In search of harmony I try to express - by way of fine art - the permeation among the dimensions of space and time, color and sound, painting and music.
Paintings are created by conversion of the emotional charge found within one musical part through unrestrained application of color onto the canvas with an effect of uncontrollable development that creates the elementary being of my work. By intervening reflexively later I end up the creative process.
My works are necesarily abstract as such is the music in its essence.
If symphonies of Gustav Mahler could be recognized in the exhibited works, it would mean that musical accords are ringing out as the bloodstream of artwork.
Vladimir Vlahovic