AUX MANIR Slobodan Sajin
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AUX Manir Slobodan Sajin is a contemporary art group from Serbia. Established in 1982 by two historian of art, Slobodan Šajin(1952) and Momčilo Rajin(1954) with a name Aux Maniere. In the early beginnigs of art activity (1975), both of artists participated in Serbian conceptual art group Group 143. Slobodan Šajin also participated in Autopsia group(1980). In the early 80's (1980 - 1982) Slobodan Šajin worked on silk-screen printings and developed a unique art graphic (print) monotyping technique called "REPRINT" (REcycle PRINT). That technique became the base of the artworks which Aux Maniere made in the next several years. After Momčilo Rajin decided to leave (1986), Aux Maniere became one man group - Slobodan Šajin. Since 1986 till 1990 Aux Maniere produced a few collections of geometry abstract art paintings. This paintings were characteristic of that period.
1991. Civil war in the former Yougoslavia. Slobodan Šajin was engaged in commercial arts.
After fall of Milošević's regime in Serbia (2000), Slobodan Šajin started in again with fine arts making. In 2002 he promoted a new art brand, trash brand AUX MANIR, which became a new name of the art group instead of the old one. In the past five years Slobodan Šajin exhibited in his house garden, place named Plain air gallery.
Significant exhibitions
1982 -1985 Aux Maniere designed record covers for few famous Serbian rock groups such as U škripcu, Laki pingvini.
1983. Media Transormations
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
1984. Fin de siecle
Happy Gallery SKC, Belgrade, Serbia
1985. Fin the siecle -This is today
City of Zagreb Galleries, Zagreb, Croatia
1985. I gioielli della lirica
Happy Gallery SKC, Belgrade, Serbia
1985. Suspicious minds LandsMuseum, Ruma, Serbia
1986. Armagedon - Bridges 86
Pavilion "Cvijeta Zuzorić",Belgrade, Serbia
Aux Maniere, Verbumprogram, Alter Imago, Raša Todosijević, Miško Šuvakovic , Fedja Klikovac, Dušan Otašević , Halil Tikveša, Era Milivojević, Dragoslav Krnajski, Goran Djordjević
1986. Interstellar signalization
Hotel lobby, Ruma, Serbia
1987. Groups in Yougoslav art of 80's
Gallery Meander, Apatin, Serbia
AUTOPSIA, ALTER IMAGO, VERBUMPROGRAM, AUX MANIERE, IRWIN
1988. Simulacrum
Mail Art. Small paintings,reprints and flyers. Art works-gifts randomly delivered.
1989. The need for picture Contemporary Gallery, Pancevo, Serbia
Aux Maniere, Autopsia, Verbumprogram, Laslo Kerekeš, Sombati Balint, Dragomir Ugren, Varga Somodji Tibor, Rada Čupić, Jozef Ač, Milan Konjovic ...
1990. Rosenzwei Collection
Gallery ESC. Belgrade, Serbia
Alter Imago, Aux Maniere, Autopsia, Verbumprogram,Marcus Geiger, Franz West, Raša Todosijević, Apostolović, Klikovac, Susnik, Salamun, Slak, Schubert, Jurić.
1990. Materialita: Ground of geometry
Gallery ULUS, 31.October Art salon, Belgrade, Serbia
Aux Maniere, Sandro Djukić, Marcus Geiger, Dusan Jurić, Fedja Klikovac, Marjetica Potrc , Edita Schubert, Raša Todosijević, Verbumprogram, Franz West, Heimo Zobernig, Alter Imago, Willi Kopf
1990. Aux Maniere works
Landsmuseum, Ruma, Serbia
1991. Four Yougoslav art groups
Advertising booklet. Landsmuseum, Ruma, Serbia Alter Imago, Autopsia, Aux Maniere, Verbumprogram
1992. U Maniru - Mini retrospective
Museum of Kinoteka, Belgrade, Serbia
2002. MIiscelleaneous works
Plain air gallery, Ruma, Serbia
2003. Pictures for bedroom
Plain air gallery, Ruma, Serbia
2005. Centaur pictures - Cyber incrustatio
Plain air gallery, Ruma, Serbia
Documents
Online document: Lidija Merenik Art at the end of the century
