BIOGRAPHY
Full name: Sasa Kolic
Date of birth: 26.04.1969.
Place of birth: Nis
Gender: Male
Maritual status: Married
Nationality: Yugoslav
Current address:Branka Krsmanovica
51/8, Nis
telephone: ++ 381 18 336-797
Email: Sasa Kolic
It's a little bit hard to define the date when art started to be important part
of my life. So I'll take the 1988 as the starting year, the year when some
first drawings were made, naive and childish, but pretty good in perspective
and illusion of space around us. Sept. 1988 - Sept. 1989 I serve the army.
After that I enrolled the Mechanical faculty in Nis, still keeping the
essence of the adventure called art. 1990. - 1993. period beautiful, stormy
and in the same time pretty hard for me. This is period of studying, travelling
and painting. Cruising through Europe, visiting galleries in Vienna, Munich,
Paris, Amsterdam, London, I get in direct contact with the paintings of
greatest painters of all times. Eternal artist's quest, to solve the problem
of white canvas, keen to become a painting, was my main occupation. Mechanic
studies and painting grow in myself parallel. New problem occurs: studies
are slowly turning into a kind of trade between my inner self and the world
of painting. Disharmony between reality - studies and inner wishes and
needs, embodied in art causes an internal conflict, helped by pressure
of my nearest, especially my father. He wishes for me security in life
as mechanic engineer.
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In 1993, I became
a member of plastic art association named "Plavi krug"(Blue Circle), in
Nis.
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Feb. 1994:
my first group exhibition.
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Oct. 1994: I
took part in artist colony organized in Sijarinska banja, Serbia. This
gathering is very important for my future work. Meeting two great Yugoslav
artists, Divna Jelenkovic and Ljiljana Micovic, helps me a lot to solve
some art problems and demands I've met with. Next time I met a professor
of the Fine Art academy, in Pristine. Advisory and with critics, those
acquaintances fasten my development into a painter.
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Apr. 1995:
my first one-man exhibition held in Nis. This exhibition represents an
crossroad in my artistic life. This period is culmination of internal and
external conflicts. The relieving decision to leave studies just before
enrolling the fourth year of studies, and to devote my whole being to art.
At that moment, mechanics denoted only a burden to me, dead part that had
to be removed in order to set free my whole being.
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1995, three
group exhibitions.
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Since 1995,
I support myself only by painting. I took part in three art colonies -
Sijarinska banja, Serbia.
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Nov. 17, 1995.
My second one-man exhibition, Pirot, Serbia.
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Feb. 6, 1997.
I become a member of ULUS (Association of plastic artists of Serbia) -
SULUJ - AIAP - UNESCO , and am recognized as professional artist, starting
with the date of my second one-man exhibition.
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June 2000. I become a member of "Email-group" (International Art Association)
Experience:
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In 1995 I was
engaged by Mountaineering Association "Artists, Constructors, Engineers",
to design symbols for every expedition they organized, and flag also. Mountaineering
Association "Artists, Constructors, Engineers" was founded in Nis, at the
Faculty of Electronic Engineering.
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In June 1996
Department for culture, Nis municipality, engaged me to design the scenery
for the Shel Silverstein's children play: "The good tree", directed by
Zeljko Mirkovic.
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From May 1997
to May 2000, I was posted as coordinator and professor of art group, organized
by Italian Consortium of Solidarity (ICS) - Implementing partner of UNHCR.
This educational group grew up to have three exhibitions and even selling
their work. In whole period about 100 candidates participated my classes.
Many of them were already educated (high school or academy of fine arts),
and others mainly decided to continue painting after finishing the education.
In August 1999, a new group was assigned to me. A group of daily treated
patients in the Institute of Mental Health. It was a kind of educationally
occupational-therapy. This group consist of twenty regular and about ten
periodical participants.
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Languages: Serbian - Mother tongue; English - Fluent spoken and written; Italian - middle knowledge; Greek - basic and German - learning
Technical skills: Operating in MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point); HTML, Java-script, Corel draw, Photo paint, Photo shop.
You can see my abilities and my work on selfdesigned virtual gallery: Sasa Kolic - The Painter
Group exhibitions
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Feb, 15.- May
15. 1994 - "March exhibition", Nis
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Dec, 27 - Jan,
31. 1995 - "Christmas exhibition", Nis
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Jan, 1996 -
"Christmas exhibition of paintings and sculpture", Nis
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Jan, 1997 -
"Christmas exhibition of paintings and sculpture", Nis
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Feb, 13.-26.
1997 - "Exhibition of new ULUS members", Belgrade
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Mar, 27.-Apr,
19. 1997 - "Landscape in modern Yugoslav art", Belgrade.
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May, 1997 -
"Spring art exhibition - Nis artists", Nis.
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May, 1998.
- ART Expo - international fair of art and art tools, Belgrade.
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May, 1998.
- annual exhibition - "professional painters - members of ULUS", Belgrade.
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Dec, 1999.
- annual exhibition - "professional painters - members of ULUS", Nis.
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Jun 28. 2001. - September 2001. "Art Beyond Borders", Linz - Austria
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Dec. 2001 -Jan. 2002 - "Annual exhibition Members of ULUS of south-east Serbia", Nis.
