Vesović Mio – On the Edge of Sanity

Mio was born in GomjaDobiinja near UžičkaPožega in 1953. He graduated in film recording from the Academy for Theatre, Film and Television in the class of Professor Nikola Tanhofer. His photographs were published in all newspapers and magazines in former Yugoslavia and he worked for Studentski list. Polet, Pitanja, Quorum, Svijet, Start, Globus and others. In 1979, he established an art studio MO (mekookidanje) with Ivan Posavec. They cooperated on numerous projects, including, among others, 150 cover pages of Danas magazine. Mio Vesović was instrumental in helping create magazine Polet’s aesthetic of New Wave in 1980. In 1981 he recorded the most famous performance piece by TomislavGotovac: Lying Naked on Asphalt, Kissing the Asphalt (Zagreb, I love you!). Mio exhibited his work in a number of individua] and group shows. His first individual exhibition was organised in the premises of the Croatian Association of Artists in 1983 in memory of Rex (Vladimir Roksandić), and the second one in Srećnagalerija in Belgrade in 1985. The third exhibition, entitled “Rosebud”, was held in the Studio of the Modem Art Gallery, while about a hundred of his photographs is part of a collection in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. As a film photographer he worked with some famous directors: Zoran Tadić (San o Ruži), RajkoGrlić (ŠteficaCvek u raljamaživota), VeljkoBulajić (Obećanazemlja).