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Radovan Kraguly was born in 1936 and grew up on a small farm near Prijedor in the former Yugoslavia, now Bosnia–Herzegovina. He studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Belgrade and received a grant from the British Council to attend the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London before going on to lecture at art schools in England, Belgium and France. In the early 1970s, he visited Wales and soon purchased a farmhouse in Builth Wells. Since then, his life and work have alternated between mid-Wales and Paris. Through his work, Kraguly addresses man’s subjugation of nature, and he references the animal world through his depiction of abstracted animal hide patterns, specifically, that of the cow. The artist’s work is often painterly, sculptural or technological, which all demonstrate a striking juxtaposition between materials and media and reflect the stark contrast between man and nature. Kraguly has exhibited his work in multiple solo exhibitions, including at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Musèe d’Art Moderne (Paris), Umjetnicka galerija (Sarajevo), the Museum of Modern Art (Ostende, Belgium) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade) Over the years, he has taken part in more than 200 group exhibitions internationally as well as in close to twenty biennales. Major collections in which Kraguly’s work is represented include the British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Manchester City Art Gallery, the National Museum and Art Gallery (Cardiff, UK), the Bibliothéque Nationale (Paris) and the Library of Congress (Washington, DC).
*BC Artist-in-Residence 1988
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No. 1 www.livestock@deadmeat.com
Print embossing with acrylic
29 x 23in.
2007
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