Žarko Radić

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Zarko Radic in the studio

Zarko Radic (born November 20, 1932 in Užice , Kingdom of Yugoslavia , with the pseudonym ZARA) is a German artist .

Life

From 1950 to 1956 Radic studied painting at the Art School in Novi Sad and then at the University of the Arts in Belgrade . From 1964 to 1979 he was responsible for theater painting at the Stuttgart State Theater - in collaboration with Achim Freyer , Jürgen Rose , John Cranko , Jiří Kylián and the then acting director Claus Peymann . When Claus Peymann took over the management of the Schauspielhaus Bochum in 1979 , he accepted his invitation. From 1979 to 2000 Zarko Radic worked as a theater painter at the Bochumer Schauspielhaus. In the meantime he had guest engagements at the Opéra National de Lyon and the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels and was awarded the 1995 art scholarship from the Aterana Foundation, Principality of Liechtenstein . Since 2000 Zarko Radic has been working exclusively as a freelance artist in Bochum . He is known by his pseudonym ZARA. Radic has a close collaboration with the Bochum-based author and former WAZ cultural editor Werner Streletz , for whom he made numerous book illustrations and oversized drawings for radio plays.

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Zarko Radic's work is characterized by a varied dialogue between figuration, abstraction and representational painting. Fiction and reality blend into one another and give direction to the artist's powerful associative formal language. His works are scenarios of public life. They seem magical and enigmatic. The conceptual abstractions with their figurative references leave various spaces of interpretation open to the viewer and sharpen their view of the unfathomable world, which can only be partially grasped.

Works in public collections and spaces

Zarko Radic's works can be found in public collections and rooms. These include the Higher Regional Court of Dusseldorf , the regional court of Bochum , the city hall Bochum , the Bochum Museum - Art Collection , the House of Art Brno / Czech Republic, the museum Banegården Art & Culture in Aabenraa Denmark and the Principality of Liechtenstein .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1957: Belgrade Museum, Serbia
  • 1958: National Theater Belgrade, Serbia
  • 1977: Pula Art Gallery, Croatia
  • 1978: Gallery Spectra, Stuttgart
  • 1981: Emschertal Museum Schloss Strünkede
  • 1982: Galerie Nova, Hagen
  • 1986 Museum Bochum - art collection ; Art gallery Paderborn
  • 1987: Rheingalerie Düsseldorf
  • 1988: Galerie Kosmos, Essen
  • 1989: Bo 7 Gallery, Bochum
  • 1990 ART-Vision Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 1994: Gallery in the Lucas-Cranach-Haus, Weimar
  • 1995 Otto-Richter-Kunsthalle, Würzburg
  • 1996 Städtische Galerie, Gladbeck; Bergneustadt Art Association
  • 1999: Museum Banegården, Aabenraa, Denmark
  • 2001: Museum Bochum - art collection ; Herbede House Gallery, Witten; Empire Art Gallery, Mainz
  • 2002: Municipal Koenraad-Bosman-Museum , Lower Rhine
  • 2004: Galerie Claudia Böer, Hanover
  • 2006: Sulegaarden Gallery, Assens, Denmark
  • 2007: Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf ; Art gallery Villa Kobe , Halle (Saale)
  • 2008/09, 2012: NordArt - International Art Exhibition, Schleswig-Holstein
  • 2011: Bergneustadt Art Association
  • 2013: ICON Gallery, Berlin
  • 2014: Galerie Kunst am Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin
  • 2015: Gallery at Starnberger See, Feldafing
  • 2016: Art Innsbruck, Syrlin Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Cologne List, Galerie Kunst am Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin; Art Association Graefelfing, Munich

Honourings and prices

  • 1995: Scholarship from the Aterana Foundation, Principality of Liechtenstein

Literature (selection)

  • Museum Bochum (ed.): Zarko Radic "ZARA" painting, exhibition catalog of the Museum Bochum and the Städtische Galerie Paderborn 1986.
  • The art trade: Zarko Radic - A man with many talents, Kunsthandel Verlag GmbH, Neu-Isenburg 2-2005, pp. 42–43.
  • NordArt, exhibition catalogs, Rendsburg 2008 (p. 94), 2009 (p. 107), 2012 (p. 113).
  • ARTPROFIL, magazine for art: Zarko Radic - Withheld the image of realities from a mirror, issue no. 110-2015, 21st year, pp. 26–28.
  • International Art Today: Zarko Radic “ZARA” Serbia, Art Catalog, Volume 16, Schondorf am Ammersee 2016, pp. 234–235.

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personal data
SURNAME Radić, Žarko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ZARA (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Užice , Kingdom of Yugoslavia