Ksenia Milicevic
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Ksenia Milicevic is a French painter, architect and town planner. She is based in Paris, with a studio in Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre
. She also maintains a base in South West France.
. Both parents, (mother born in U.S.A, Lackawanna, New York
, father in Montenegro
), were Partisans engaged in guerrilla campaigns during the Second World War. Following the Fourth anti-Partisan Offensive (January to April 1943) and the Fifth (May to June 1943) in south-eastern Bosnia and northern Montenegro, she was left with her grandparents in Montenegro. After the war, her parents joined the diplomatic service, she lived with them in Sofia and Prague.
Ksenia Milicevic discovered architecture, mosaics and frescoes in old monasteries, paintings and parks. Her father, also a painter, gave her the gift of his oil-paints, resulting in her first oil-painting at the age of fifteen. Back to Belgrade, after studies in the V° Senior High School and one year in the University of Engineering, in 1962 she moved to Algiers, where she studied Architecture in the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the Institute of Urbanism. She graduated from both in 1968. In all her spare time Ksenia Milicevic joined the painting class of the painter M'hamed Issiakhem
, in the School of Fine Arts, located in the same bulding. She worked for a year in ECOTEC with the team of the Brazilian architect Oskar Niemeyer.
Interested in the Italian Renaissance, she traveled to Italy in 1965 to view the great Masters. Milicevic was inspired by "The birth of Venus" by Botticelli.
She moved to S.M. de Tucuman in the North of Argentina to work as an architect. Here she joined the art school of the National University and graduated in 1976. Her first exhibition took place in Tucuman
in 1970.
She has lived in France, Spain, Mexico non settled in France since 1987.
Since 1976 she has been exclusively dedicated to painting. She has held 120 individual and collective exhibitions throughout the world.
In 2011 the Museum of Painting of St. Frajou, Haute Garonne, France, was inaugurated with a selection of thirty paintings by Ksenia Milicevic in the permanent collection.
Montmartre
Montmartre is a hill which is 130 metres high, giving its name to the surrounding district, in the north of Paris in the 18th arrondissement, a part of the Right Bank. Montmartre is primarily known for the white-domed Basilica of the Sacré Cœur on its summit and as a nightclub district...
. She also maintains a base in South West France.
Life
Ksenia Milicevic was born in 1942 in Drinici, Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
. Both parents, (mother born in U.S.A, Lackawanna, New York
Lackawanna, New York
Lackawanna is a city in Erie County, New York, U.S., located just south of the city of Buffalo in the western part of New York state. The population was 18,141 at the 2010 census. The name derives from the Lackawanna Steel Company...
, father in Montenegro
Montenegro
Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...
), were Partisans engaged in guerrilla campaigns during the Second World War. Following the Fourth anti-Partisan Offensive (January to April 1943) and the Fifth (May to June 1943) in south-eastern Bosnia and northern Montenegro, she was left with her grandparents in Montenegro. After the war, her parents joined the diplomatic service, she lived with them in Sofia and Prague.
Ksenia Milicevic discovered architecture, mosaics and frescoes in old monasteries, paintings and parks. Her father, also a painter, gave her the gift of his oil-paints, resulting in her first oil-painting at the age of fifteen. Back to Belgrade, after studies in the V° Senior High School and one year in the University of Engineering, in 1962 she moved to Algiers, where she studied Architecture in the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the Institute of Urbanism. She graduated from both in 1968. In all her spare time Ksenia Milicevic joined the painting class of the painter M'hamed Issiakhem
M'hamed Issiakhem
M'hamed Issiakhem is one of the founders of the modern Algerian painting.- Biography:M'hamed Issiakhem born on in Tizi Ouzou . Since 1931 his family moved out to Relizane where he spent most of his childhood. In 1943 he handles a stolen, from a French military camp, grenade, which explodes...
, in the School of Fine Arts, located in the same bulding. She worked for a year in ECOTEC with the team of the Brazilian architect Oskar Niemeyer.
Interested in the Italian Renaissance, she traveled to Italy in 1965 to view the great Masters. Milicevic was inspired by "The birth of Venus" by Botticelli.
She moved to S.M. de Tucuman in the North of Argentina to work as an architect. Here she joined the art school of the National University and graduated in 1976. Her first exhibition took place in Tucuman
Tucumán
San Miguel de Tucumán is the capital of the Tucumán Province, located in northern Argentina at from Buenos Aires. It is the fifth biggest city of Argentina after Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario and Mendoza, and it is also the most important city of Northern Argentina...
in 1970.
She has lived in France, Spain, Mexico non settled in France since 1987.
Since 1976 she has been exclusively dedicated to painting. She has held 120 individual and collective exhibitions throughout the world.
In 2011 the Museum of Painting of St. Frajou, Haute Garonne, France, was inaugurated with a selection of thirty paintings by Ksenia Milicevic in the permanent collection.
Selected exhibitions
- 2011 Permanent Collection inauguration. Saint-Frajou Paintung Museum - France
- 2005 Tribute to Alberto MagnelliAlberto MagnelliAlberto Magnelli was an Italian modern painter who was a significant figure in the post war Concrete art movement.- Biography :...
. Mario Marini Museum Pistoia - Italy - Etruscan Museum. Siena - Italy
- Consiglio Regionae. Firenze - Italy
- Museum of Cluj. Romania
- 1998 Mexican Cultural Center. Brasilia - Brazil.
- 1997 Palais des Expositions. Geneva - Switzerland
- 1995 Gallery 20 Fine Art. Paris - France.
- French Cultural Center. Oslo - Norway
- 1986 Institut Français d'Amérique Latine. Mexico - Mexico
- 1984 Palais des CongrèsPalais des CongrèsPalais des Congrès *Belgium**Palais des congrès de Liège*France** Centre des congrès de Saint-Étienne** Cité Internationale des Congrès de Nantes** Palais des congrès de Beaune** Palais des congrès de Bordeaux...
. Brussels - Belgium - 1983 Graphic Art Festival. Osaka - Japan
- 18 French painters, Tamayo Contemporary Art MuseumTamayo Contemporary Art MuseumMexico's Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum , located on Paseo de la Reforma, in Mexico City, was opened in 1981 as a repository for the collection that Rufino Tamayo and his wife Olga acquired during their lifetimes and ultimately gifted to the nation...
. Mexico - Mexico, - 1982 Gallery Misrachi. Mexico - Mexico
- 1981 Museum of Contemporary Art. Madrid - Spain
- 1980 18° International Exhibition Joan MiróJoan MiróJoan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride...
. Barcelona - Spain - 1976 Theater of the eighth. Lyon - France
- 1972 Gallery Lirolay. Buenos Aires - Argentina
- 1970 University Gallery. Tucuman - Argentina
Museums
- Fine Art Museum. Granada - Spain
- Museum de la Casa de los Tiros. Granada - Spain
- Museum of Contemporary Art. Salamanca - Spain
- Museo de Cuenca
- Museum of Art Actual. Ayllon - Spain
- Museum Municipal. Segobre - Spain
- Museum of Contemporary Art. Malabo - Guinea
- Museum Pinacoteca Municipal de Deifontes. Spain
- Museum of Armilla. Granada - Spain
- Municipal Museum. Long - France
- Polytechnic Institute. Mexico - Mexico
- French Institute of Latin America. Mexico - Mexico
- Museum Zarsuela del Monte, Spain
- Museum Civico. Spilimbergo - Italy
- Foundation Paul Ricard. Paris - France
- Cultural Center of the Embassy of Mexico. Brasilia - Brazil
- Paintings Museum of Saint-Frajou. Haute Garonne - France.