Radomir Damnjan Biography
Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan (1935 - ) was a Serbian painter and conceptual artist. Born in Mostar in 1935, graduated in painting (1957) and obtained a master's degree (1959) in the class of professor Nedeljko Gvozdenović, at the end of the 1950s and during the 1960s he achieved great artistic fame and a place historically important in the domestic artistic panorama, first with the "Sandy Shores" and "Sunken Cities" cycles, and then with minimalist painting works. In the early 1970s he moved to Italy, where he developed his art in the context of contemporary art media (photography, video, film, performance) and in the spirit of conceptual art. In the 1980s he reinterpreted the themes of traditional painting, such as self-portraits, and introduced the discipline of "body painting" to finally begin to apply the painting of completely uniform painted surfaces, which the Italian critic Tommaso Trini called "Spots, empty and full ". He exhibited in Kassel in 1964 at the "Documenta" III exhibition and at the VII São Paulo Biennial. He exhibited twice at the Venice Biennale in 1966 and 1976, and also participated in the Tokyo Biennale in 1967. He has lived in Milan since 1974 and has been present on the Italian cultural scene since then. In fact, he has held numerous personal exhibitions in Italy. In 1979 he held a personal exhibition at the Tübingen Art Pavilion and on that occasion his book "Nothing Superfluous in the Human Spirit" was published. He deals with painting, performance, video, cinema and photography. His works are exhibited in many museums, public collections and private collections in the country and abroad.
