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Muzej naivne i
marginalne umetnosti
u Jagodini
Museum of Naïve
and Marginal Art
Jagodina, Serbia
35000 Jagodina
Boška Đuričića 10.
tel/fax: (+381 35) 223 419
mnujagodina@gmail.com
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The landing of astronauts
on the Moon, 1965
Oil-canvas, 50 x 67cm
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A REVIEW OF HIS WORK
Creativity, multilayered art form, otherworldliness
In his paintings he managed to achieve the unity of an archaic and a
modern sensibility, as well as of open and abstract colorization…
Inspired by folk poems and tales, he painted legendary creatures and
animals in a surreal space.
The pictorial values of his paintings hold connotations of the
achievements of the pioneers of modernism in art: Klee, Miró, Kandinsky,
Dubuffet …
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ABOUT ILIJA
Oto Bihalji said in a telegram sent to Ilija's family after his
death:
"… I'm sure that Ilija, who experienced the bitterness of envy in his
last days, will be resurrected in his nation as one of the most powerful
creative artists in the field of naive art …"
And Ilija Bosilj´s son, Dimitrije Basicevic - an art historian, wrote in
an essay dedicated to his father:
"… he approached paper and pencil with such respect which can only be
imagined; my father would take a pencil or a quill as a pious Christian
would take a wafer …"
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EXHIBITIONS
He had one-man shows in Belgrade, Zagreb, Genoa, Frankfurt am Main,
Munich, Basel, Dusseldorf, Dubrovnik, Amsterdam, Novi Sad, Jagodina, …
He bestowed his works, as well as his collection of works of naive
artists, to his native town Šid, where The Gallery of Naive Art Ilijanum
was opened in 1973.
His works from the collections of the Museum of Naive Art in Jagodina and
from the Gallery Ilijanum were exhibited at the 6th international
triennial in Bratislava (IN SITA 2000) and they were presented in the
section of the retrospection of the most important achievements of naive
art in the world in the 20th century.
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The Miss of Iliad, 1969
Oil-hardboard, 115 x 120cm |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Monograph:
Dimitrije Basicevic, My father Ilija
(A sketch for an antimonograph), Novi Sad 1996
Monographic catalogue:
Jovica Stosic, Ilija Bosilj, MNA Jagodina, 1993
Nina Krstic, In Sita 2000 (Yugoslav collection of naive art), MNA Jagodina,
2001
Encyclopaedias on naive art:
Kelemen, B., Yugoslav Naive Painting, Zagreb 1969
Bihalji Merin, O., Naive artists of the world, Belgrade-Ljubljana 1971
Tomasevic, N., Yugoslav naive painters, Belgrade 1978
Dimitrijevic, K., Naive art in Yugoslavia, Belgrade 1979
Sarcevic, G., in: Yugoslav Art Encyclopaedia, YAI Miroslav Krleza, Zagreb
1984
M. Vračević, Ilija Bosilj in: Naive Art in Serbia, Belgrade 1993.
N. Krstić, Ilija Bosilj in: Naive Art in Serbia, Belgrade 2003. |
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