Slobodan Trajković (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Трајковић; born 1954) is a Serbian visual artist. He began his career in the late 1970s.
Biography Trajković was born in 1954 in Pristina, Yugoslavia. In the 1980s Slobodan Trajković rejected the academic language of the arts and began creating spatial works and installations belonging to the then current reversal art.
Trajković later abandoned the idea of image-building, moving towards flat representation of color organized in a figurative and abstract mix, which tended to highly variable "chromatic aggression". For many years he lived in New York City where the school of abstract art is still an active inspiration.
Trajković then moved to London and returned to the European tradition lacking in the New World. He again explored dialectics of form: organic-artificial, colorful-achromatic (or monochrome), rough-gentle, hard-fragile. He produces drawings, objects, sculptures, installations, two-dimensional and three-dimensional works in various materials.
References
Further reading Ivana Simeonović Ćelić: Muzej Zepter, Beograd, 2010, pp. 292–293. Jovan Despotovic: Nova slika, Clio, Beograd, 2006, pp. 54, 99. Ivana Simeonović Ćelić: Boje vremena, Clio, Belgrade, 2005 The Marie Walsh Art Foundation: Artist to artist, Ace Gallery, New York, 2002. Library of Congress Control Number: 2002103699. Ješa Denegri, Fragments of postmodern pluralism, CICERO, Belgrade, 1997, pp. 146–149 Ješa Denegri: Eighties: Themes of Serbian Art, Svetovi, Novi Sad, 1997 Robert C. Morgan: Paintings as an anatomical constellation, Stux Gallery, New York, September 1996, pp. 3,4,5 and 6. Library of Congress Control Card Number: 96-92417. . Vlado Buzancić, Rexhep Goci, Contemporary Kosovian Art, Art Gallery, Priština, 1988, pp. 12, 20, 40, 47, 140, 141.
External links
Slobodan Trajković website Florence Trust Art Foundation, London Ikona Gallery, Venezia Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore Gallery Beograd, Belgrade Gallery Remont, Belgrade