Sudac Collection
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Sudac Collection is a large private collection of avant-garde
art owned by Marinko Sudac, a Croatia
n art collector.
, the Sudac Collection comprised 1500 works of avant-garde artists from former Yugoslavia
, created between 1915 and 1989. Most of the works were acquired in the 2000s, directly from artists or their families.
Sudac Collection was presented for the first time at the exhibition "The Peculiarities of the Margin - Avant-Garde Art in the Region 1915-1989" at the Gallery Centre in Varaždin
, Croatia
, held in March/April 2005. It has since generated significant public interest and is now considered one of the most important private art collections in the region.
Avant-garde
Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
art owned by Marinko Sudac, a Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
n art collector.
, the Sudac Collection comprised 1500 works of avant-garde artists from former Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
, created between 1915 and 1989. Most of the works were acquired in the 2000s, directly from artists or their families.
Sudac Collection was presented for the first time at the exhibition "The Peculiarities of the Margin - Avant-Garde Art in the Region 1915-1989" at the Gallery Centre in Varaždin
Varaždin
Varaždin is a city in north Croatia, north of Zagreb on the highway A4. The total population is 47,055, with 38,746 on of the city settlement itself . The centre of Varaždin county is located near the Drava river, at...
, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
, held in March/April 2005. It has since generated significant public interest and is now considered one of the most important private art collections in the region.
1915–1946
- Zenit
- Ljubomir Micić
- Branko Ve Poljanski
- Dragan Aleksić
- Marijan Mikac
- Jo Klek
- Grupa Traveleri
- UT
- TANK
- Mihailo S. Petrov
- Avgust ČernigojAvgust CernigojAvgust Černigoj, also known in Italian as Augusto Cernigoi was a Italian painter, known for his avant-garde experiments in Constructivism....
- Rade Drainac
- Marko Ristić
- Salomon Monny De Boully
- Boško Tokin
- Aleksandar Vučo
- Oskar DavičoOskar DavicoOskar Davičo was a distinguished Serbian novelist and poet of Jewish origin. A leading literary figure of his generation, he was the most acclaimed Serbian surrealist writer, and a revolutionary socialist activist.-External links:...
- Vane Bor
- Vilko GecanVilko GecanVilko Gecan was a Croatian artist, influential in the Zagreb modern art scene of the 1920s and 30s. He is best known for his expressionist paintings and drawings, and for his contributions to the avantgarde magazine Zenit. He showed his work in many solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad...
- Antun Motika
- Franjo Fius
- Andrija MaurovićAndrija MaurovicAndrija Maurović was a renowned comic book author, often called the father of Croatian and Yugoslav comics.-Biography:...
1946–1968
- Aleksandar SrnecAleksandar SrnecAleksandar Srnec was a Croatian artist. He is mainly known for his avant-garde designs and kinetic and lumino kinetic art....
- Božidar RašicaBožidar RašicaBožidar Rašica was an architect, scenographer and painter.-Career:He studied in Rome, Belgrade, Warsaw and Zagreb where he graduated in 1942...
- Vjenceslav RichterVjenceslav RichterVjenceslav Richter was a Croatian architect. He was also known for his work in the fields of urbanism, sculpture, graphic arts, painting and stage design.-Career:...
- Gorgona GroupGorgona GroupThe Gorgona Group , was a Croatian avant-garde art group which consisted of artists and art historians: Dimitrije Bašičević-Mangelos, Miljenko Horvat, Marijan Jevšovar, Julije Knifer, Ivan Kožarić, Matko Meštrović, Radoslav Putar, Đuro Seder, Josip Vaništa, operated along the lines of anti-art in...
- Julije KniferJulije KniferJulije Knifer was a Croatian painter and founding member of the prominent 60s Croatian art group known as, Gorgona Group....
- Gattin Ivo
- Josip Vaništa
- Đuro SederĐuro SederĐuro Seder is a Croatian painter. He lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.At the beginning of his career he worked as an illustrator, image editor and designer at various magazines...
- Eugen Feller
- Koloman Novak
- Petrik Pal
1968–1989
- OHO
- Crveni Peristil
- Marina AbramovićMarina AbramovicMarina Abramović is a Belgrade-born New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the “grandmother of performance art.” Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and...
- S. Milivojeviċ-ERA
- Tomislav Gotovac
- Goran TrbuljakGoran TrbuljakGoran Trbuljak is an award-winning Croatian cinematographer.Trbuljak had first studied at the graphic arts department of the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated from in 1972...
- Gera Urkom
- Dubravko Budiċ
- Slavko Matkoviċ
- Bálint Szombathy
- D. Raša Todosijeviċ
- Boris Buċan
- Vladimir Kopicl
- Ante Vukov
- Katalin LadikKatalin LadikKatalin Ladik poet, actress and performance artist. Born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia and emigrated to Hungary in 1992...
- László Szalma
- László Kerekeš
- Mirko Radojčiċ
- Janez Kocijančiċ
- Slobodan Tišma
- Bogdanka Poznanovic
- Vladimir Gudac
- Boris Demur
- Mladen StilinovićMladen StilinovićMladen Stilinović born, 1947 in Belgrade, Serbia is a conceptual artist and one of the leading figures of the so-called "New Art Practice" in Croatia. He lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.Stilinović's works are based on the idea of social and art critique...
- Željko KipkeŽeljko KipkeŽeljko Kipke is a Croatian artist. His practice is based on painting and experimental film, but he is also a published art critic and theoretician. He was born in Čakovec, Croatia, but lives and works in Zagreb....
- Verbumprogram
- Marjan Molnar
- Dragomir Ugren
- AutopsiaAutopsiaAutopsia is an art project dealing with music and visual production. Autopsia gathers authors of different professions in realization of multimedia projects. Its art practice began in London in the late 1970s, continued during the 80s in the art centers of former Yugoslavia. Since 1990, Autopsia...
Sources
- Sudac Collection - List of artists
- Prvi hrvatski muzej avangarde
- Zbirka Marinko Sudac
- Novi Saatchi, Mimara ili uspješan biznismen