Remark:

There is a belief, at least in the majority of cases, that artistic autobiographies, direct artists statements or their first-hand testimonies are almost sacrosanct, the most reliable and the most authentic direction signs and support regarding the studying of their lives, their activities on the social scene and, of course, their concrete work. Artistic autobiographies, like all other testimonies, are subject to passage of time or to subsequently formed interpretation appropriate to the interest of new generations.

Subjective views of things, ideas and former errors are incomparably more worthless when compared to creations consciously remodelled in conformity with these or those ideological priorities of the time.

Dragoljub Raša Todosijević - biography

Born in 1945, in Serbia. Dragoljub Raša Todosijević has been one of the most important figures on the Serbian and ex-Yugoslav artistic scene in the past thirty years and doubtlessly one of the most eminent domestic artists abroad. In early 1970s he was a member of an informal group consisting of six artists (M. Abramović, E. Milivojević, N. Paripović, Z. Popović, G. Urkom) gathered around the Gallery of the Students’ Cultural Centre, which lay the foundations of new artistic practice in our country. Todosijević’s artistic work encompasses drawings, paintings, performances and photography, video and installations. He exhibited at more than forty individual and two hundred group exhibitions. He is a winner of many awards and his works can be found in numerous domestic and foreign private and museum collections.

Recent individual exhibitions

• 2005 – National Museum of Montenegro, Dado Studio, Cetinje, Montenegro
• 2004 – San Francisco – Belgrade, Todosijević Foundation: Project: There is God, donation of 50 paintings of artists from San Francisco and 50 paintings of artists from Belgrade, USA
• 2004 – Retrospective exhibition, Foreign Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

Recent group exhibitions

• 2006 – 2007 Contact Belgrade, works from the collection of the Erste Bank Group, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade
• 2006 – Marginal specificities: Vanguard art of ex-Yugoslavia, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad
• 2004/2005 Essence of Life – Essence of Art – Paper works, the artists of Eastern and Western Europe, St Petersburg, Moscow, Budapest
• 2005 – On normality, Art in Serbia 1989 – 2001, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade