Milan Stašević (1946)
Milan Stašević was born in 1946 in a small village in Banat, Serbia. He graduated at Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade (Department of Painting) in 1975, in the class of Professor Zoran Petrovic. He got his Master’s degree at the same university two years later with Professor Mladen Srbinovic. So far he has staged more than 50 solo exhibitions. He participated in over 300 group exhibitions at home and abroad. He has received numerous national and international awards and recognitions for his work . Stašević is employed as a professor of drawing and painting at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. He lives and works in Belgrade.
White images of large format stand out in the author’s oeuvre. Abstraction of these white imagese was achieved by unpredictable subsequent interventions on preparatura: ink, paint, chalk, drip painting materials, in an endless quest for a universal artist ideal of perfection. Parallel with white minimalism, Stasevic examines the history of art, from cave drawings to computer images, quotes the old masters by reading them in a new way.