Sanjin Lugić

SANJIN LUGIC, born in 1964. He lives and works in Sarajevo.

Education:

He finished primary and secondary education in Sarajevo. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo in 1987. Postgraduate study of restoration and a Master''s thesis defense in Ljubljana in 2001. He obtained his academic title Master of Restoration in the field of restoration of easel painting.

Specialisation, professional development and reference:

ISCAM ( International School on Conservation of Monuments ) Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 19

ICCROM

( The International Center for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property); ( I.C.R. ) Instituto Centrale per il Restauro, Rome, Italy 2002.; ( O.P.D. ) Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence, Italy 2002.

ICCROM

RISANTIKVAREN - The Directorate for Cultural Heritage, Norway; NTNU - The Norwegian University of Science and Technology; NIKU - The Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research; Oslo, Norway 2004.

JAPAN FOUNDATION

The Restoration of Cultural Properties, Kyoto, Japan, 2011.

Work experience:

Art Restorer - expert associate at the Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2001.; Executor of the programme of practical teaching in the field of restoration - conservation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo since 2002.; Coordinator of international projects implemented by ALU and UGB&H through the European Bridge Project with Slovenia, France, Austria and Japan.

Independent professional restoration activities:

Over ninety paintings from the National Collection at the Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Processing of the FDS Sarajevo Collection; Processing of the BIHAMK Sarajevo Collection; Processing of the legacy of Enver Krupić at the Bihać City Gallery annex; Five paintings from the holdings of the Franciscan monastery in Tuzla, two of which are from the list of protected cultural monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Fourteen paintings from the Parish Church in Kruščica near Nova Bila; 58 pictures from private collections in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Three handwritten books, one from 1780 from the holdings of the Franciscan Monastery in Guca Gora;

28 reliefs (parish churches Vitez and Novi Travnik); 8 polychrome sculptures, the oldest of them is from the eighteenth century (Krušćica near Nova Bila); 15 copper reliefs (Grgić); Fresco in Guca Gora Monastery (Dulčić); 3 polychrome wooden sculptures of the Parish of the Assumption of Mary in Uskoplje; Polychrome wooden sculpture "Pieta" Franciscan monastery in Fojnica

Solo exhibitions

600 Years of Vranduk, City Museum, Zenica, 2010; Noble Warriors, AB Gallery, Maglaj, 2010; Gazije, Center for Education and Culture, Tešanj, 2010; Tenth Exhibition, Roman Petrovic Gallery, Sarajevo, 2010; Aproche de la femme, Alsace Parliament, Strasbourg, France, 2009; Form of Absence, Center for Education and Culture, Tešanj, 2008; Man under the Skin, Bosnian Cultural Center, Tuzla, 2008; Jardin Medieval, Uzes, France, 2007; Between, Mostar Cultural Center, Mostar, 2007; Between, Turkish Cultural Center, Sarajevo, 2007; Works 2005, New Temple Gallery, Sarajevo, 2006; Forma Feminae, New Temple Gallery, Sarajevo, 2005; Works 2004, New Temple Gallery, Sarajevo, 2004; Works 2001 - 2003, Roman Petrovic Gallery, Sarajevo, 2004;

e-mail: sanjin@gmail.com

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Sanjin Lugić completed his Master''s degree in Conservation and Restoration at the University of Ljubljana. He is the chief conservator and restorer of the Art Gallery and an associate on the corresponding subject at the Academy of Fine Arts. It is a field which encompasses discipline, precision, obedience, which are not seen in these expressions of pure expressiveness until we come across some details exported by the Fauvist power, which, however, conceals the beauty of the geometric arrangement within itself.

Allegations from the Art Criticism of academician Tvrtko Kulenović written for the Catalogue of Exhibition in Sarajevo, Justified Fauvism by Sanjin Lugić Turkish Cultural Center, January 19 - 26, 2007

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Sanjin Lugić is a painter of a living creative nerve and delusional invention who found his embodiment in the colored spectrum. Each of his paintings is a colored miracle, no matter what motive he moves into that spectrum.

The basic motif that he incorporates into his field of art is the human figure. But this is not a man of our immediate experientialism, with violent stylizations Lugic elevates the human figure to a metaphysical state, to a universal date, to a purified idea.

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The human character is the basis of inspiration, from his stylised postulation most often derived the total colored spectrum, so that the impression that the artist in the realization of his image began precisely from the vision of the postulation of the human being, and in these postulations and stylisations the artist shows a wondrous invention and one is under the impression that in this respect his invention is inexhaustible.

Statements from the art criticism of Vojislav Vujanovic written for the Exhibition Catalogue in Tešanj, Poetic as a metaphor for the Collective Gallery Culture Center, November 2008.