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[[Image:Todosijevic 1973 Decision as Art.jpg|thumb|350px|''Decision as Art'', performance, Student Cultural Centre, Belgrade, 1973.]]
 
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'''Raša Todosijević''' (2 September 1945, Belgrade, Yugoslavia - 3 December 2024, Belgrade, Serbia) was a painter and sculptor. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade (1969), where he studied painting. He first exhibited in 1967. In the early 1970s, he was one of the initiators of new art practice in [[Belgrade]]. His means of expression included installations, performance, video, paintings, sculptures, as objects made of different, clashing organic and non-organic materials: bread, fish, rubber plants, mud, plaster, water, metal, found objects, transistors, etc.
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'''Raša Todosijević''' (2 September 1945, Belgrade, Yugoslavia - 3 December 2024, Belgrade, Serbia) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade, in 1969. He exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Serbia and abroad, and has published several books. His works are included in numerous museum and private collections, and in 2011 he represented Serbia at the Venice Biennale.
  
 
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Such works as Forged Bread (1973), 200.000 Lines for the Paris Biennale (1977),Schlafflagge with Carp (1981), Invisible Sculpture - Endless Music (1981), Fountain of Death in Maribor (1988) and Gott liebt die Serben (1989) have been destroyed and exist only on photographs.
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Todosijević is one of the main protagonists of [[Belgrade]]’s conceptual artists group. In the early 1970s young artists (including [[Marina Abramović]], Era Milivojević, Neša Paripović, Zoran Popović and Gera Urkom) gathered in Belgrade’s [[Student_Cultural_Center_Belgrade|Student Centre]], where a new form of artistic expression was conceived, later called Nova umjetnička praksa (New Artistic Practice). Todosijević’s performances were marked by provocative and aggressive behaviour, often flirting with sadism. He created artworks in which he explored the medium and process of painting, demystifying the artistic act itself, ironically connecting it to the act of work and ‘hand exercises’. His texts are among the most important critical writings on art in the region.
  
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Collaborated briefly with the music group known as Other New Music (M.Draskovic and M. Savic).
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In the 1990s he began a series of pseudo advertisements – for instance, advertising the great fictional Todosijević Art Academy, a fictitious corporation Todosiyevitch-Malevich, and celebrating the 150th anniversary of the fictional school Dragoljub Raša Todosijević – employing obvious lies using conventional media language in order to subvert the principles of advertising.
  
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Since 1973 has written essays on the theory of art and "art texts" (For Art Against Art, Introduction to History, Who Makes Profit on Art and Who Gains from it Honestly). Since 1980 has been writing Stories on Art. His essays and stories have been published in many Yugoslav and foreign literature and art journals.
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In the cycle of installations ''Schlafflage'' (meaning ‘sleeping flag’) created between 1978 and 1984 he created autonomous incomprehensible symbols, and in yet another cycle of installations, drawings and sculptures started in 1989, ''Gott Liebt die Serben'' (‘God loves the Serbs’), he gives nationalism an ironic twist by bringing its kitsch aestheticism to the forefront. In 1998 in Belgrade and Čačak, he served his guests the Serbian national dishes of beans, bread and beer on tables shaped into a swastika. ([https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09528822.2018.1565688 2018], upd.)
  
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Major performances and actions: Marinela (Belgrade 1971), Decision as Art (Edinburgh - Belgrade, 1973), Drinking Water (Belgrade, 1974), Was ist Kunst? (Paris, Biennale de Paris, 1977), Was ist Kunst? (Wien, Oesterreichicher Kunstverein, International Performance Festival, 1977), Was ist Kunst? (Lublin, International Festival of Performance and Body Art, 1978), Vive la France - Vive la Tyrannie (Amsterdam, International Meeting devoted to Work and Words 1979).
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Major performances and actions: Marinela (Belgrade 1971), Decision as Art (Edinburgh - Belgrade, 1973), Drinking Water (Belgrade, 1974), Was ist Kunst? (Paris, Biennale de Paris, 1977), Was ist Kunst? (Wien, Oesterreichicher Kunstverein, International Performance Festival, 1977), Was ist Kunst? (Lublin, International Festival of Performance and Body Art, 1978), Vive la France - Vive la Tyrannie (Amsterdam, [[Works and Words]], 1979).
  
 
==Catalogues==
 
==Catalogues==
  
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* ''Raša Todosijević. Was ist Kunst?'', Belgrade: Geopoetika, 2002. {{sr}}
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* ''Raša Todosijević. Was ist Kunst?'', Belgrade: Geopoetika, 2002. {{sc}}
  
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* ''Hvala Raši Todosijeviću'', ed. Dejan Sretenović, Belgrade: Muzej savremene umetnosti, 2002. {{sr}}
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* ''Hvala Raši Todosijeviću'', ed. Dejan Sretenović, Belgrade: Muzej savremene umetnosti, 2002. {{sc}}
  
 
* ''[[Media:Rasa Todosijevic MSU Beograd 1982.pdf|Raša Todosijević]]'', Belgrade: Muzej savremene umetnosti, 1982, [8] pp. With text by Jerko Denegri. {{sc}}
 
* ''[[Media:Rasa Todosijevic MSU Beograd 1982.pdf|Raša Todosijević]]'', Belgrade: Muzej savremene umetnosti, 1982, [8] pp. With text by Jerko Denegri. {{sc}}
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==Interviews==
 
==Interviews==
  
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20110424130955/en.seecult.org/node/38050 "Rasa Todosijevic on Art, Beer and Beans"], 22 ''SEEcult.org'', Apr 2008.  
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20110424130955/en.seecult.org/node/38050 "Rasa Todosijevic on Art, Beer and Beans"], ''SEEcult.org'', 22 Apr 2008.  
  
 
* [https://artmargins.com/raa-todosijevi-interview-dietmar-unterkofler/ "Raša Todosijević in Conversation with Dietmar Unterkofler"], ''ARTMargins'', 8 Jun 2011.  
 
* [https://artmargins.com/raa-todosijevi-interview-dietmar-unterkofler/ "Raša Todosijević in Conversation with Dietmar Unterkofler"], ''ARTMargins'', 8 Jun 2011.  
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==Links==
 
==Links==
  
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* [http://www.scribd.com/doc/24547763/Ra%C5%A1a-Todosijevi%C4%87-engleska-biografija Biography]
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* [http://www.scribd.com/doc/24547763/Ra%C5%A1a-Todosijevi%C4%87-engleska-biografija Biography], [http://realitycheck.c3.hu/rasabio.html]
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* http://realitycheck.c3.hu/rasabio.html
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* [https://pescanik.net/author/rasa-todosijevic/ Peščanik.net]
 
* [http://www.scribd.com/was%20ist%20kunst%202 Scribd]
 
* [http://www.scribd.com/was%20ist%20kunst%202 Scribd]
 
* [https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/rasa-todosijevic-18874 Tate], [https://www.kontakt-collection.org/people/55/rasa-todosijevic/ Kontakt Collection], [https://www.avantgarde-museum.com/en/museum/collection/authors/rasa-todosijevic~pe4525/ Avantgarde-Museum]
 
* [https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/rasa-todosijevic-18874 Tate], [https://www.kontakt-collection.org/people/55/rasa-todosijevic/ Kontakt Collection], [https://www.avantgarde-museum.com/en/museum/collection/authors/rasa-todosijevic~pe4525/ Avantgarde-Museum]
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* Tributes: [https://www.seecult.org/hvala-i-slava-rasi-todosijevicu/ Vesna Milosavljević] (SEEcult.org) [https://www.diplomacyandcommerce.rs/thank-you-rasa-todosijevic-ungrateful-serbia/], [https://www.dnevnik.rs/lat/kultura/najnovije-vesti/secanje-dragoljub-rasa-todosijevic-1945-2024-odluka-kao-umetnost-2024-12-05 Sanja Kojić Mladenov] (Dnevnik), [https://www.danas.rs/kultura/odlazak-umetnika-koji-je-poput-rudara-kopao-po-nasoj-savesti-povodom-smrti-dragoljub-rasa-todosijevic-1945-2024/ Aleksandra Ćuk] (Danas), [https://www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/648322/odlazak-umetnika-intelektualca M. Đorđević] (Politika), [https://www.novosti.rs/kultura/vesti/1436509/neumorni-kopac-savesti-civilizacije-vest-smrti-jednog-nasih-najznacajnijih-umetnika-dragoljuba-rase-todosijevica-1945-2024 М.Краљ-М.Мирковић] (Novosti), [https://www.mg-lj.si/en/visit/4031/in-memoriam-dragoljub-rasa-todosijevic-1945-2024/ MG+MSUM], [https://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/vizualna-umetnost/umrl-je-rasa-todosijevic-eden-od-najbolj-cenjenih-srbskih-konceptualnih-umetnikov/729555 M.K.] (MMC), [https://www.kontakt-collection.org/events/383/rasa-todosijevic19452024 Branislav Dimitrijević] (Kontakt).
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* Tributes: [https://www.seecult.org/hvala-i-slava-rasi-todosijevicu/ Vesna Milosavljević] (SEEcult.org) [https://www.diplomacyandcommerce.rs/thank-you-rasa-todosijevic-ungrateful-serbia/], [https://www.dnevnik.rs/lat/kultura/najnovije-vesti/secanje-dragoljub-rasa-todosijevic-1945-2024-odluka-kao-umetnost-2024-12-05 Sanja Kojić Mladenov] (Dnevnik), [https://www.danas.rs/kultura/odlazak-umetnika-koji-je-poput-rudara-kopao-po-nasoj-savesti-povodom-smrti-dragoljub-rasa-todosijevic-1945-2024/ Aleksandra Ćuk] (Danas), [https://www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/648322/odlazak-umetnika-intelektualca M. Đorđević] (Politika), [https://www.novosti.rs/kultura/vesti/1436509/neumorni-kopac-savesti-civilizacije-vest-smrti-jednog-nasih-najznacajnijih-umetnika-dragoljuba-rase-todosijevica-1945-2024 М.Краљ-М.Мирковић] (Novosti), [https://www.blic.rs/sudbine/umro-rasa-todosijevic/pd37cck Ivana Mikić] (Blic), [https://www.nin.rs/kultura/vesti/63160/in-memoriam-dragoljub-rasa-todosijevickroz-zivot-me-vodila-neprekidna-rasprava-o-umetnosi Miljana Kralj] (NIN), [https://www.mg-lj.si/en/visit/4031/in-memoriam-dragoljub-rasa-todosijevic-1945-2024/ MG+MSUM], [https://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/vizualna-umetnost/umrl-je-rasa-todosijevic-eden-od-najbolj-cenjenih-srbskih-konceptualnih-umetnikov/729555 M.K.] (MMC), [https://www.kontakt-collection.org/events/383/rasa-todosijevic19452024 Branislav Dimitrijević] (Kontakt).
 
* [https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Драгољуб_Раша_Тодосијевић Wikipedia-SR]
 
* [https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Драгољуб_Раша_Тодосијевић Wikipedia-SR]
  
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Revision as of 09:11, 12 May 2025

Decision as Art, performance, Student Cultural Centre, Belgrade, 1973.

Raša Todosijević (2 September 1945, Belgrade, Yugoslavia - 3 December 2024, Belgrade, Serbia) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade, in 1969. He exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Serbia and abroad, and has published several books. His works are included in numerous museum and private collections, and in 2011 he represented Serbia at the Venice Biennale.

Todosijević is one of the main protagonists of Belgrade’s conceptual artists group. In the early 1970s young artists (including Marina Abramović, Era Milivojević, Neša Paripović, Zoran Popović and Gera Urkom) gathered in Belgrade’s Student Centre, where a new form of artistic expression was conceived, later called Nova umjetnička praksa (New Artistic Practice). Todosijević’s performances were marked by provocative and aggressive behaviour, often flirting with sadism. He created artworks in which he explored the medium and process of painting, demystifying the artistic act itself, ironically connecting it to the act of work and ‘hand exercises’. His texts are among the most important critical writings on art in the region.

In the 1990s he began a series of pseudo advertisements – for instance, advertising the great fictional Todosijević Art Academy, a fictitious corporation Todosiyevitch-Malevich, and celebrating the 150th anniversary of the fictional school Dragoljub Raša Todosijević – employing obvious lies using conventional media language in order to subvert the principles of advertising.

In the cycle of installations Schlafflage (meaning ‘sleeping flag’) created between 1978 and 1984 he created autonomous incomprehensible symbols, and in yet another cycle of installations, drawings and sculptures started in 1989, Gott Liebt die Serben (‘God loves the Serbs’), he gives nationalism an ironic twist by bringing its kitsch aestheticism to the forefront. In 1998 in Belgrade and Čačak, he served his guests the Serbian national dishes of beans, bread and beer on tables shaped into a swastika. (2018, upd.)

Major performances and actions: Marinela (Belgrade 1971), Decision as Art (Edinburgh - Belgrade, 1973), Drinking Water (Belgrade, 1974), Was ist Kunst? (Paris, Biennale de Paris, 1977), Was ist Kunst? (Wien, Oesterreichicher Kunstverein, International Performance Festival, 1977), Was ist Kunst? (Lublin, International Festival of Performance and Body Art, 1978), Vive la France - Vive la Tyrannie (Amsterdam, Works and Words, 1979).

Catalogues

  • Raša Todosijević. Was ist Kunst?, Belgrade: Geopoetika, 2002. (Serbo-Croatian)
  • Hvala Raši Todosijeviću, ed. Dejan Sretenović, Belgrade: Muzej savremene umetnosti, 2002. (Serbo-Croatian)
  • Raša Todosijević, Belgrade: Muzej savremene umetnosti, 1982, [8] pp. With text by Jerko Denegri. (Serbo-Croatian)

Interviews

Literature

Links

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