Slobodan Trajković (

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: Слободан Трајковић; born 1954) is a

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ian

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. He began his career in the late 1970s. Lives in London and Belgrade.

Biography

In the 1980s Slobodan Trajković rejected the academic language of the arts and began creating spatial works and installations belonging to the then current reversal art. He later abandoned the idea of image-building, moving towards flat representation of color organized in a figurative and abstract mix, which tended to highly variable "chromatic aggression". For many years he lived in

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where the school of abstract art is still an active inspiration. He then moved to

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and returned to the European tradition lacking in the New World. He again explored

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s of form: organic-artificial, colorful-achromatic (or monochrome), rough-gentle, hard-fragile. He produces drawings, objects, sculptures, installations, two-dimensional and three-dimensional works in various materials.

Sources

* Ivana Simeonović Ćelić: ''Muzej Zepter'', Beograd, 2010, pp. 292–293. * Jovan Despotovic: Nova slika, ''Clio'', Beograd, 2006, pp. 54, 99. * Ivana Simeonović Ćelić: Boje vremena, ''Clio'', Belgrade, 2005 * The Marie Walsh Art Foundation: Artist to artist, ''Ace Gallery'', New York, 2002. Library of Congress Control Number: 2002103699. * Ješa Denegri, Fragments of postmodern pluralism, ''CICERO'', Belgrade, 1997, pp. 146–149 * Ješa Denegri: Eighties: Themes of Serbian Art, ''Svetovi'', Novi Sad, 1997 * Robert C. Morgan: Paintings as an anatomical constellation, Stux Gallery, New York, September 1996, pp. 3,4,5 and 6. Library of Congress Control Card Number: 96-92417. . * Vlado Buzancić, Rexhep Goci, Contemporary Kosovian Art, ''Art Gallery'', Priština, 1988, pp. 12, 20, 40, 47, 140, 141.

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