Roksandić Slobodan – 18 drawings on paper

He was born in 1949 in Belgrade (Serbia). He graduated from painting and then completed postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. He taught drawing and painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade as a full professor, and served as the dean of the same faculty (2007 – 2010), now retired. He works in drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, mail art, and video. He has exhibited solo and participated in numerous group exhibitions since 1974. He has received multiple awards and recognitions. He is a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia. He lives and works in Belgrade. His first drawing was published in 1955 in the highly respected daily newspaper Borba. Since then, he has “created” many drawings for various purposes and with different intentions, with motifs including the faces of friends, people he knows and does not know, public figures, and random passersby. From an autobiographical note: “As dean, he ardently worked on a socio-managerial-artistic performance. During the performance, i.e., his deanship, in official and unofficial meetings he observed many, many faces somehow from a social position, so he drew and painted much less. But he gained a healthy impression that it was precisely during that period that he advanced in understanding the Old Testament, then Plato, Machiavelli, Marx, then Voltaire, Molière, Swift, then Domanović, Sterija, and Nušić… and especially Chaplin and Monty Python.”