Stane Jagodič (born 15 June 1943) is a

Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ...

n painter, photographer, caricaturist, and author. His art has been socially critical. He is especially known for his montages, assemblages, and

collage Collage (, from the , "to glue" or "to stick together") is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assembly of different forms, thus creating a new whole. (Compare with pasti ...

s, joining objects that would seem to be incompatible.

Biography

Jagodič was born in

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and spent his youth in various places near

Šmarje pri Jelšah Šmarje pri Jelšah (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 4: ''Štajersko''. 1904. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 62.) is a town in eastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Š ...

. In 1964, he finished the School of Design and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1970. In the early 1970s, he began working on

photocollage Photomontage is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image. Sometimes the resulting composite image is photographed so that the final image ...

abstract painting Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a Composition (visual arts), composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. ''Abstract art'', ''non-figurative art'', ''non- ...

, and different newly invented techniques, for example spraygrams and artistic use of

X-rays An X-ray (also known in many languages as Röntgen radiation) is a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than those of ultraviolet rays and longer than those of gamma rays. Roughly, X-rays have a wavelength ran ...

. He was a member of the Union of Slovene Fine Arts Associations and of the Association of Slovenian Designers, the Cartoonists & Writers Syndicate in New York and an external collaborator of the international journal Graphic Design, Seoul (South Korea). He was a co-founder of the June Group (), an international art movement of the 1970s, the creator of the June International Art Collection and the initiator and leader of the satire triennal Aritas-Satire (1995–2001). He has held over fifty solo exhibitions and has taken part in more than 200 group shows, as well as numerous art juries at home and abroad. In 1989, his monograph was published. 1993 saw the issue of his catalogue ''Častilec svetlobe, srebra in rje'' ("The Worshipper of Light, Silver, and Rust"), and in 2004, his memoirs, entitled ''Orbis Artis: nemirno in kreativno'' ("Orbis Artis: Restless and Creative"), 1943–2004) were published, which include more than 800 pages. He has received more than 50 awards and prizes for his creative work, mostly abroad.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jagodic, Stane 1943 births Living people Slovenian painters Slovenian male painters Slovenian satirists Slovenian photographers Slovenian caricaturists Slovenian writers Aphorists Slovenian printmakers People from the Municipality of Šmarje pri Jelšah University of Ljubljana alumni Collage artists