Dragan Radenović (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Раденовић, Sarajevo, FNRY, April 12, 1951) is a Serbian artist, university professor, and academician.[1]

Dragan Radenović
Born(1951-04-12)12 April 1951
NationalitySerbian
Alma materUniversity of Arts in Belgrade
Known forSculptor
Children2 daughters
Parents
  • Radivoje Radenović (father)
  • Ranđija Radenović (mother)

Biography edit

Early life edit

He was born with his father Radivoje Radenović, a Yugoslav People's Army officer, and his mother Ranđija, born Maksimović. Later, the couple had two daughters and a son.[citation needed]

Education edit

Dragan Radenović is a law graduate. He also graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 1982. He has a master's degree in art and a doctorate in philosophy.[2]

Achievements edit

Radenović has provided the most contributions in the field of art, art pedagogy, and art theory. His sculptures are in world museums and private collections. He is the author of sculptures for two important annual awards in Hollywood, California: the Mary Pickford Award[3] and Nikola Tesla Award.[4]

He has exhibited in dozens of solo exhibitions and several hundred collective exhibitions in the country and abroad.[5] He has won several artistic achievements and contributions to the development of art theory. The studio and sculpture park of the sculptor is located on Ciganski Brdo above Grocka, near Belgrade.[6]

As a professor of art academies, he teaches basic sculpture discipline – modeling and the theory of the language of visual communication. He is a member of many artistic and scientific international organizations. He has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia since 1980 and a member and founder of YUSTAT. He is a member of the Associated American Artists, the Sculpture Guild, and the International Association of Fine Artists at the United Nations.[citation needed]

He was the Secretary of the Department of Logistics and Systems at the Center for Multidisciplinary Studies of the University of Belgrade in 1979.[7]

He is a member of the Russian Academy of Arts, which was founded in 1757 by Empress Catherine the Great as the Imperial Academy of Arts. Currently, this academy is the oldest institution of said empress in the world.[8]

Selected theoretical works edit

Monographs edit

  • Petrović, Radmilo; Radenović, Dragan (2008): Kulturno nasleđe islama. Beograd: Atelje Vizantija.
  • Petrović, Radmilo; Radenović, Dragan (2010): Dizajn i savremena umetnost. Beograd: Metaphysica.

Essays edit

  • Radenović, Dragan; (2018): Modernizam i postmodernizam. In: Lukić, Aleksandar (ur.): Filozofija etosa : spomenica Simu Elakoviću. Beograd: Srpsko filozofsko društvo, pp. 218–221.
  • Radenović, Dragan (2018): Fašizam, granica — zapad : rasprava o savremenom fašizmu. In: Filozofija i sloboda. Beograd : Srpsko filozofsko društvo, pp. 211–219.

Selected exhibition catalogs edit

  • Radenović, Dragan (2007): Dragan Radenović : raspeća : = crocifissioni. Beograd: R. Petrović; Ministarstvo kulture Srbije.
  • Radenović, Dragan (2008): Radenović : skulpture : Moderna galerija, Lazarevac, jun 2008. Lazarevac: Centar za kulturu.
  • Radenović, Dragan (2009): Dragan Radenović : evo čoveka : izložba, Kragujevac, 2009. Beograd: Grafolik.
  • Radenović, Dragan (2010): Vystavka „Ce, čelovek - Ecce homo : Imperatorskaya akademiya hudožestv, Moskva”, 2010. Beograd: Grafolik.
  • Radenović, Dragan (2012): Radenović : Skulptura / sculpture : Čovek u savremenom svetu / Man in a contemporary world : Ozone, 30. april – 6. maj 2012. Beograd: Ozone.
  • Radenović, Dragan; Mileusnić, Dragan; Živković, Miodrag (2014): Živković, Mileusnić, Radenović : tri : Nacionalna galerija, Beograd, 17. jun-17. jul 2014. god. Uredio Gorča Stamenković. Beograd: D. Radenović.

References edit

  1. ^ "In honor of the 70th jubilee of the Serbian sculptor, honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts Dragan Radenovich", The Russian Academy of Arts, Official website, April 12, 2021.
  2. ^ "Biografija". Infozonet. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  3. ^ Mary Pickford Award, "About the sculptor: The Mary Pickford Statue", International Press Academy official website
  4. ^ Nikola Tesla Award, "About the sculptor: The Nikola Tesla Statue", International Press Academy official website
  5. ^ "Radenović, Dragan". Xiwl. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  6. ^ "Dragan Radenović". B92. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  7. ^ "Program and the Book of Abstracts" (PDF). IPB. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  8. ^ "Skulpture Radenović" (PDF). Krivak. Retrieved 3 June 2022.

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