Miljenko Horvat

Miljenko Horvat at the opening of the International Computer Art Exhibition at Place Bonaventure May/June 1972 in Montreal, Canada.

Miljenko Horvat was born in 1935 in Varaždin, Croatia.[1]

He studied at Technical-architectural faculty of University of Zagreb, where Josip Vaništa was a professor.[2]

Horvat began to paint from an early age, and during the study of architecture has become the youngest member of the avant-garde group with an international reputation, Gorgona.[3] His work within the group includes various projects: Gorgona - Then and Now, Neo Dada: Gorgona | Absurd Freedom, Socialism and Modernity, Marginal Specificities: Avant-Garde Art of ex-Yugoslavia 1914 - 1989, Marginal Specificities – Regional Avant-Garde Art, Marginal Specificities – Regional Avant-Garde Art 1915 – 1989.[4]

After graduating architecture, he left Zagreb in 1962 to work in Paris, and in 1966 he moved to Canada.[5]

Horvat's works are in numerous public, corporate and museum collections: The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec;[6] Canada Council Art Bank;[7] Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke;[8] Spencer Museum of Art;[9] Collection of Marinko Sudac,[10][11] Zagreb, etc.

Few years after retirement he returned to Zagreb where he died in 2012.[12]

Miljenko Horvat has exhibited on over 150 exhibitions. He was active as a curator, designer and collector. He wrote and published poetry in English language. His drawings have been published in several poetry collections of a renown Canadian writer and poet Alexis Lefrançois.[13]

References

  1. ↑ "Author information, collection of Le Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec" (PDF).
  2. ↑ "JOSIP VANIŠTA". Avantgarde Museum. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  3. ↑ "Muzej suvremene umjetnosti Zagreb". www.msu.hr. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
  4. ↑ "MILJENKO HORVAT". Avantgarde Museum. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  5. ↑ "Muzej suvremene umjetnosti Zagreb". www.msu.hr. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  6. ↑ "The Collections - Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ)". Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). Retrieved 2016-01-24.
  7. ↑ "Home". Canada Council Art Bank. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
  8. ↑ http://mbas.qc.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Visuel-Photo-SODRAC2.pdf
  9. ↑ "Spencer Museum of Art". www.spencerart.ku.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
  10. ↑ "Avantgarde Museum". avantgarde-museum.com. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
  11. ↑ "MILJENKO HORVAT". Avantgarde Museum. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
  12. ↑ "Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec" (PDF).
  13. ↑ Egzakt. "Recherche - L'Île". www.litterature.org. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
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