Tafil Musović (born 1950) is a painter who lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands, since 1988. He was born in Yugoslavia, in the province of Kosovo, and lived in Belgrade, the capital, from 1952. In his last years in Yugoslavia, he had an atelier in Zemun until 1988.
Biography Musović was born in Mlečane, a village near Mališevo in the province of Kosovo, Yugoslavia. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Art in Belgrade (1969–1974), where he also did his postgraduate studies (1977–1979).
He won the Prize for the Best Drawings on the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, 1970, and the Prize for the best exhibition of 1997 in Belgrade, given by TV/Radio Studio B. Basisstipendium - Fonds voor Beeldende kunsten, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008
Art Tafil Musović appeared on the art scene at the time of change styling concepts in fine art from figuration to expression of new wave at the beginning of the 1980s. But first appearances showed a distinct authorial personality that is imposed not only in the professional community but also the wider population of art devotee. After moving to Amsterdam, basically kept constructed visual language, but it has completed the European and specific Dutch painting tradition that is well understood and creatively absorbed in his work. Today Musović is remained committed to figuratives and portraits, but now with an in-depth review dimensions of artistic tradition.
Exhibitions (solo) 1977 Galerija grafickog kolektiva, Belgrade 1978 National Museum, Leskovac 1979 Galerija Doma omladine, Belgrade 1982 Galerija Kolarcevog narodnog univerziteta, Belgrade 1982 Galerija Kolarcevog narodnog univerziteta, Belgrade 1984 Galerija Studentskog kulturnog centra, Belgrade 1986 Salon Muzeja savremene umetnosti, Belgrade 1987 Happy Gallery, Belgrade 1992 Galerie de Blauwe Leuning, The Hague 1995 Galerie de Schone Kunsten, Haarlem 1995 Galerie de Blauwe Leuning, The Hague 1997 Galerie de Schone Kunsten, Haarlem 1997 Galerija ULUS, Belgrade 1998 Galerie de Blauwe Leuning, The Hague 1998 Galerija Fakulteta likovnih umetnosti, Belgrade 1999 De Annex, Galerie Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam 2001 Galerie Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam 2002 Galerie Jacoba Wijk, Groningen 2003 Wendingen, Amstelkerk, Amsterdam 2003 Galerija grafickog kolektiva, Belgrade 2005 RC de Ruimte, IJmuiden 2005 RC de Ruimte, IJmuiden 2006 RC de Ruimte, IJmuiden 2007 Galerie 59, van Eeghenstraat 59-1, Amsterdam 2008 RC de Ruimte, IJmuiden 2008 Galerija grafickog kolektiva, Belgrade 2008 Art Pavillon “Cvijeta Zuzoric”, Retrospective 1978 - 2008, Belgrade 2009 Ververs modern art gallery, Amsterdam 2009 Centre culturel de Serbie, Paris 2010 Galerija grafickog kolektiva, Belgrade
Bibliography 1978 Zdravko Vučinić, Galerija Natodnog muzeja, (catalogue), Leskovac 1982 Jerko Denegri, Galerija Kolarčeve zadužbine, (catalogue), Belgrade 1982 Jovan Despotović, Žestoki potezi bojom - Tafil Musović, Književne novine, 9. decembre, Belgrade 1984 Lidija Mernik, Galerija SKC, (catalogue), Belgrade 1986 Mladen Kozomara, Salon Muzeja savremene umetnosti, (catalogue), Belgrade 1986 Jovan Despotović, Značenje scene, Meaning of scene, Jedinstvo, 29 novembre, Priština 1987 Dragica Vukadinović, Srećna galerija SKS, (catalogue), Belgrade 1995 Onno Groustra: Haarlems Dagblad, 11 maart 1995 Landschappelijke zelfportretten, Amsterdam 1997 Zoran Gavrić, Galerija ULUS, (catalogue), Belgrade 1997 Lidija Merenik: Intervju 04 jul 97 Slikarstvo velikog nemira, Belgrade 1997 Mihailo Kandić: Likovni Život, June 1997 Tafil Musović, The Paintings of, Belgrade 1997 Bas Donker van Heel: Haarlems Dagblad, 23 januari 1997 Schone Kunsten etaleert eigenzinnige tekenaars, Amsterdam 1998 Hans Dekkers: Destroyed Gardens (on the series: The Expulsion from Paradise), (catalogue), Amsterdam 1998 Patty Wageman, (catalogue), Amsterdam 2001 Milena Marjanović: BLIC, Intervju 19 mar 2001 Najteže mi pada diskriminacija, Belgrade 2001 Marina Martić: Place/ Time/ Identity (on the series: Max Beckmann in Amsterdam), (catalogue), Amsterdam 2002 Milena Marjanović: BLIC, Intervju 28 feb 2002 Umetnik nije sveta krava, Belgrade 2002 Lidija Merenik: A conversation with Uccello, (on the series: Saint George and the Dragon), (catalogue), Amsterdam 2002 Milena Marjanović: Dear Tafil (on the series: Saint George and the Dragon), (catalogue), Amsterdam 2002 Patty Wageman: A world of good and evil (on the series: Saint George and the Dragon), (catalogue), Amsterdam 2004 Vojislav Stojanović, (monography), Belgrade 2006 Wim de Wagt: Haarlems Dagblad, 24 mei 2006 Alsof er iemand op een trom spuugde, Haarlem 2008 Liljana Ćinkul, (catalogue), Belgrade 2008 Milena Marjanović, Qui non ha luogo il Santo Volto, (catalogue), Belgrade 2008 René Huigen, Drawing is Speaking and Writing at the Same Time, (catalogue), Belgrade 2008 On Retrospective 1978 - 2008, Art Pavillon “Cvijeta Zuzoric” and Exhibition in Galerija grafickog kolektiva, Belgrade 2010 Tafil Musović, works on paper, (monography), Galerija Grafički kolektiv, Belgrade
References
Sources http://www.tafilmusovic.nl http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/kultura.71.html:418916-Tafil-Musovic-Slikam-da-bih-opstao Documentation of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade Tafil, (monograph), ULUS, Belgrade, 2008
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