ZEC // BOSNIA & ITALY
Safet Zec, the painter and engraver from Bosnia-Herzegovina, was born in Rogatica in 1943. At the age of twelve, he dedicated himself to the art of painting and drawing in which he showed a great talent. Upon the graduation from the Art High School in Sarajevo, he continued his studies in Belgrade where he graduated from the Academy of the Fine Arts in 1969. He obtained his postgraduate diploma in 1972. He became exponent of the new orientation called "The Poetic Realism". At the beginning of 90's he was the one of the most important artists in the country and its representative on many international exhibitions. He had lived and worked in Belgrade until 1989. Following few years he spent in Sarajevo. When the war started in 1992 he left his country.
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In 1992 Safet Zec came to Udine, Italy. All of his works were left in his studio in Sarajevo. In Italy Zec had to rebuild his identity. He started to work on new paintings, drawings and engravings. In the 1994 he showed his new works at he first museum exhibition together with a few old ones from a German gallery. He won the Grand Prix "Alpe Adria" for drawing in Ljubljana in 1996. The monograph "Safet Zec" was promoted in Ljubljana in 1998 on the occasion of his exhibition "Paintings, drawings and Engravings 1992-1998". He exhibits currently in Italy, France and throughout the world. Today he lives and works in Venice.
“Zec is also known for his love of windows, and when questioned about this fixation Zec said: ‘The house where I grew up in Sarajevo was opposite to a big house with a large facade and many windows. I’ve been fascinated by them ever since. Painting windows is like painting a portrait for me. They are like people, they change their aspect as the day and night passes. They’re ever-present in our lives’. Zec’s fixation with windows also evokes the uniquely perceptive quality of his paintings; their ability to reflect essential elements of our humanity.”
MAIN EXHIBITIONS
2015 - Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche – La Pitura come miniera, 16/X/2014-15/2/2015, Treviso, Italy
2014 – Atelier de Gravure Zec, Paris, France – Deposition – Etudes, Gravures, Photographies – Paris, France
CHIESA DEL GESU, Deposizione/Deposition, Rome Italy
STAMPERIA D’ARTE ALBICOCCO, Pictur Optimus, in punta di pennello, Udine, Italy
2013 – VILLA MANINI DI PASSARIANO – Opera incise/Engraved Works, Codroipo (UD), Italy
2012 - ROTONDA DI VIA BESANA, Capolavori senza tempo, Milan, Italy
FONDAZIONE FEDERICA GALLI, Ceramolle, Milan, IKtaly
GALLERIE DUTKO, ILE ST LOUIS, Paintures/Paintings, Paris, France
2010 – MUSEO CORRER, Il potere della pitura, Venice, Italy
JORDAN NATIONAL GALLERY, From Bosnia with love, Amman, Jordan
2009 – COLLEGIUM ARTISTICUM, Halil Tikvesa/Safet Zec, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2008 – MUSEUM KAMPA, Paintings/Obrazy, Prague, Check Republic
2007 – GALLERIA FALTERI, Engraved Works, Florence, Italy
8e RENCONTRES EEUROPEENNES DU LIVRE, Suze/Tears, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
GALLERIE AGNES DUTKO, New Presentation/Accrochage, Paris, France
GALLERIE AGNES DUTKO, Les Chaises, Paris, France
2006 – SCUOLA GRANDE DI S. GIOVANNI EVANGELISTA, Grazie Rembrandt, Venice, Italy
GALLERYMICHELE BROUTTA, Gravure et dessins, Paris, France
KUNSTHANDLUNG GOYERT, Graphiken Zeichungert, Koln, Germany
2005 – GALLERIA D’ARTE SAGITTARIA, Il segno e il silenzio, Incisione Italiana, Pordenone, Italy
2004 – GALERIE JEAN JACQUES DUTKO, Paris, France
SALLES MIRO, UNESCO, Paris France
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