Ordan Petlevski

Ordan Petlevski (24 January 1930 in Prilep - 22 January 1997 in Zagreb) was a prominent artist working in the media of painting, drawing, graphic arts and illustration.

In the early 1950s Petlevski came to study in Zagreb, where he remained for the rest of his life. From 1955 to 1960 he was an associate of the Master workshop of the famous Croatian Naïve art artist, Krsto Hegedušić. In the early phase of his career (1954–1957) he painted stylized human figures, which he later replaced with surrealism, and later still with his own version of the Informel art style with organic art forms. The titles of his works also refer to organic forms, such as Flowering, Reanimated Fossil, Growth of a Form, Fruits, Divisions, Embryo and Form of Plenty.

He exhibited at many solo shows in Zagreb, Belgrade, Skopje, Sarajevo and Paris, and participated at numerous international exhibitions. He exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1964 with Oton Gliha, Edo Murtić, Zlatko Prica, Fran Šimunović, Vojin Bakić and Dušan Džamonja.^[1] Two retrospective exhibitions were held featuring his work: one at the Art Pavilion in Zagreb, (1973) and one at Gallery Klovićevi Dvori (Zagreb, 1999). He received numerous awards, including First Prize at the 1st International Youth Biennale (Paris, 1959), Swiss Award for Painting (Lausanne, 1961), First Prize for Painting at the 1st Yugoslavian Triennial of Fine Arts (Belgrade, 1961), First Prize at the 1st Contemporary Croatian Graphic Arts Biennale (Split, 1974), and the Vladimir Nazor Award (1978).^[2]

Published works on Ordan Petlevski

• Zidić, Igor - Ordan Petlevski, (Art Gallery, Sarajevo, 1968).

References

1. ^ Enquist, Corinne, Croatian Artists at the Venice Biennales, Culturenet.hr, 09/01/2009, (accessed, 21/02/2011).
2. ^ Ministry of Culture Website, link to the recipients of the Vladimir Nazor Life Achievement Award.

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Name	Petlevski, Ordan
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Date of birth	24 January 1930
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Date of death	22 January 1997
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