Ksenia Milicevic (born September 15, 1942) is a French painter, architect and town planner. She is based in Paris, with a studio in Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre and also maintains a base in South West France.
Life
Ksenia Milicevic was born in 1942 in Drinici,[1] Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her mother was born in Lackawanna, New York and her father in Montenegro. Both were partisans engaged in guerrilla campaigns during the Second World War.[2] Following the Fourth anti-Partisan Offensive from 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 and she lived with them in Sofia and Prague.
Ksenia Milicevic discovered architecture, mosaics, frescoes and paintings in old monasteries. Her father, also a painter, gave her the gift of his oil-paints, resulting in her first oil painting at the age of fifteen. After studies in the V° Senior High School and one year in the University of Engineering in Belgrade, she moved to Algiers in 1962. There she studied architecture in the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the Institute of Urbanism. She graduated from both in 1968. In her spare time Milicevic joined the painting class of the painter M'hamed Issiakhem, in the School of Fine Arts, located in the same building. She worked for a year in ECOTEC with the team of the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. Interested in the Italian Renaissance, she traveled to Italy in 1965 to view the great Masters.
Milicevic moved to S.M. de Tucuman[3] in the north of Argentina to work as an architect. Here she joined the art school of the National University and graduated in 1976.[4] Her first exhibition took place in Tucuman in 1970.[5]
She has also lived in Spain and Mexico and has settled in France[6] since 1987. In 1989 she opened a workshop at Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre. Her studio is next to that of Endre Rozsda. Since 1976 she has been exclusively dedicated to painting.[7] She has held 120 individual and collective exhibitions throughout the world.
Since 2010 Ksenia Milicevic has been publishing essays alerting to the progressive destruction in art of the three factors on which a work is based: beauty, space and time, the destruction of art signaling and favoring the annihilation of man.[8]
In 2011 the Museum of Painting of St. Frajou, Haute Garonne, France, was inaugurated[9] with a selection of thirty paintings by Milicevic in the permanent collection.[10] In 2012 Ksenia Milicevic created the International Children's Painting Biennial.[11] In 2014, Ksenia Milicevic created the Art Resilience movement[12] and in 2015 International Exhibition Art Resilience.[13] In May 2016, Ksenia Milicevic participates in the Euro-Mediterranean Congress - Marseilles: Resilience in the World of the Living, under the presidency of Boris Cyrulnik, 19–21 May 2016, Intervention on resilience in art.[14]
Gallery
Azur attendri d'octobre pâle et pur, 1998
Celui qui vient après, 1996
Le voyage d'hiver, 1996
Silence de midi 1993
Selected exhibitions
2017 Forum artistique, Aurignac, Haute Garonne
2016 Congrès Euro-Méditerranéen, Archives Départementales des Bouches du Rhône - Marseille - France
2014 Eglise de Montesquieu. Montesquieu - France
2011 Permanent Collection inauguration. Saint-Frajou Paintung Museum - France
2005 Tribute to Alberto Magnelli. Mario Marini Museum Pistoia - Italy
Etruscan Museum. Siena - Italy
Consiglio Regionae. Firenze - Italy
Museum of Cluj. Romania
1998 Mexican Cultural Center. Brasília - Brazil.[15]
Ksenia Milicevic, Ange du jour - Jeu de divination, drawings, Amazon, 2021
* Ksenia Milicevic, Collection Livres participatifs, Apprentissage du dessin 1. Randonnées sous les arbres, 2. Herbarium, 3. Maison au bord de la mer, 4. Lundi au marché, 5. Maître Corbeau, autoédition, Amazon, 2022
Ksenia Milicevic, Collection Résilience en Art : 1. Soulage, un trait noir sur la peinture, autoédition, Amazon, 2022, 2. Qui êtes-vous Mr. Duchamp ? autoédition, Amazon, 2022
Ksenia Milicevic, "60 Artistes du mouvement Art Résilience", autoédition, Amazon, 2024
Conferences
Between November 2015 and March 2016 Ksenia Milicevic gave a series of five lectures on Resilience in art, in the Painting Museum of Sain-Frajou, France : Resilience - a current concept, What is art ?, Beauty - subjective or objective ?, Contemporary art, The responsibility of the artist.[33]
Participation in the Euro-Mediterranean Conference - Marseille: Resilience in the World of the Alive, chaired by Boris Cyrulnik, 19–21 May 2016, Departmental Archives of Bouches du Rhône. Intervention on Resilience in art.[34]
2017, lecture in the Paintung Museum of Saint-Frajou : "1917-2017 un siècle d'iconoclasme".[35]
Between November 2017 and March 2018 Ksenia Milicevic gave Cycle of four lectures on Images in painting : 1. What does the night tell us? ,[36] 2. Tales of light,[37] 3. The murmur of water,[38] 4. The voice of trees, in the Painting Museum of Sain-Frajou, France
March 2018 - Conference at Domaine des Tilleuls in Huos (Haute Garonne), France : Painting, 19th - 20th centuries: from the golden rule to the absence of rules
2018 - Participation in the 4° Resilience World Congress organized by Resilio - International Association for the Promotion and Dissemination of Resilience Research in partnership with the University Aix-Marseille in Marseille (France), from 27 to 30 June 2018. Intervention on Resilience in Art: What Art Therapy for Resilience?
2020 december - Design, applied art and plastic art in the age of resilience, The 6th International Conference of the Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.
2021 5° Congres on Resilience (Online), Sustainability factors and sustainability of art - Yaoundé, Camerun.
Further reading
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Azur attendri d'octobre pâle et pur, 1998
Celui qui vient après, 1996
Le voyage d'hiver, 1996
Silence de midi 1993
