Nedeljko Pečanac
Nedeljko Pečanac (Nedeljko Pećanac)
(1938)
Nedeljko Pećanac, born in 1938 in Drvar (Bosnia and Herzegovina), is a painter and printmaker who now lives in Nova Gorica. A war orphan, he spent his early years in various parts of Slovenia, where he began school. In 1951, he returned to Drvar, attended lower secondary school, and later enrolled in a vocational school. From 1955 to 1958, he studied applied graphics at the School of Design in Sarajevo. In 1959, he was accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where he graduated in 1963. He later studied restoration and conservation in Rome on an Italian government scholarship.
“… In his color screen prints from the late 1970s, motifs similar to his sculptures first appear, followed later by landscapes …”
Work
Pećanac works in painting, printmaking, ceramics, and sculpture. His artistic focus evolved from painting in the 1960s to sculpture in the 1970s, and then to screen printing, which became his primary technique in the 1980s. His early works feature decorative and literary elements, often with erotic themes, and this evolved in his sculpture and screen prints, which display an abstract, organic style. Later works feature landscapes and geometric forms, especially circles and spheres. Pećanac has received numerous awards for his work.
Landscape
5/10 | 1977 | original serigraphy, paper