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Igor Zidić: Image and Time - Julije Knifer
Julije Knifer (Osijek, April 23, 1924 - Paris, December 7, 2004) is one of the most important Croatian artists of the 20th century. He studied painting at the beginning of the 1950s at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and at the end of the same decade he was one of the founders and a prominent member of the Gorgona group, which operated in Zagreb from 1959 to 1966. In 1961, he participated in the first "New Tendencies" exhibition in Zagreb as a member of that movement, and in 1973, he participated in the Sao Paulo Biennale and in 1976, the Venice Biennale together with a sculptor. Ivan Kožarić. He won the "Aurélie Nemours" Award in 2000 and the "Vladimir Nazor" Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. Already in 1961, Igor Zidić wrote the first text about Knife's Meanders (Razlog, no. 4), which was followed by many other texts, as well as new exhibitions.
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