Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan

Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan (; 10 December 1935 – 10 July 2025) was a Serbian-Italian painter and conceptual artist.

Early life and education Damnjan spent his childhood in Belgrade and eventually graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1957 and completed his postgraduate studies there in 1959.

In 1971 until 1972, he went to America studying as a Fulbright scholar.

From 1990s, he worked on paintings more focused on portraits and self-portraits which he describes as "new pointillism".

Death Damnjan died in Milan, Italy, on 10 July 2025, at the age of 89.

Selected artwork

Performances The list includes: 1973 – The Man from the Newspaper or the Ability to Communicate, 12 min, Gallery of the Student Cultural Center, Belgrade 1975 – Identity: The Destruction of Books, Marx, Hegel and the Bible, 25 min, Trigon '75, Graz 1976 – Dinner with Terry Doxey from London, 30 min, Gallery of the Student Cultural Center, Belgrade 1978 – From Labor to Creative Work, 25 min, Gallery of the Student Cultural Center, Belgrade; From Labor to Creative Work, 30 min, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb 1979 – From Labor to Creativity (Version II), 30 min, Gallery of the Student Cultural Center, Belgrade; Dal Lavoro alla Creatività, 25 min, Studio 16/e, Turin 1982 – Grande Natura Morta, 25 min, Il Festival Internazionale d'Arte Video, Locarno; From Work to Creativeness, 4th Biennial, Sydney; Vision in Disbelief, Sydney 1986 – Large Still Life, April Meetings, Gallery of the Student Cultural Center, Belgrade 1996 – Chattanooga Choo Choo and the United Belgrade Still Life, Die Weise Stadt, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna 1997 – Record of a Portrait – Ješa Denegri, Gallery Zvono, Belgrade

Artworks on film tape The list includes: 1973 – The Man from the Newspaper, 8 mm, black-and-white, 3 min 1974 – Bandiera, Super 8 mm, colour, sound, 11 min; Per il Futuro, Super 8 mm, colour, 10 min

Video artworks The list includes: 1975 – Identity: The Destruction of the Books of Marx, Hegel and the Bible, black-and-white, 20 min, PAL, sound; Trigon '75, Graz 1976 – Daily Ritual of Coffee Drinking, 30 min, black-and-white, 3/4 in, PAL, sound; Reading the Same Text, black-and-white, 20 min, 3/4 in, PAL, sound; Reading Marx, Hegel and the Bible in the Light of Matches, black-and-white, 30 min, 3/4 in, PAL, sound; Spot in Space or Position of Individuals in Society, black-and-white, 30 min, 3/4 in, PAL, sound; Tübingen 1977 – Movement as a General Need, 26 min, black-and-white, 3/4 in, PAL, sound; Revolution as a Game of Minorities, 17 min, black-and-white, PAL, sound; Tübingen 1982 – Great Still Life, 25 min, colour, 3/4 in, PAL, sound; Locarno 1983 – Metaphysical Duchamp, Video D.C. 83; Ljubljana

Publications (selection)

Gillo Dorfles, Ultime Tendenze nell'Arte d'Oggi, Feltrinelli, Milan, 1973, p. 149 Achille Bonito Oliva, Europe – America: The Different Avant-Gardes, Decco Press, Milan, 1976, p. 126 Gillo Dorfles, La Body Art, l'Arte Moderna, Fratelli Fabbri, Milan, 1977, p. 225 Ješa Denegri, 10 Years Autumn Styring, Paul Kaufman, Graz, 1978, p. 171 Radomir Damnjan, Niente di Superfluo nello Spirito, Edition Dacić, Tübingen, 1978 Rafel Tous and Giner, Metronome, Libres d'Artista / Artist's Books, Berlin and Barcelona, 1981, p. 194

Awards The awards include: 1963 – Award "Vanda Svevo", 7th São Paulo Art Biennial, São Paulo 1968 – Award, International Biennial "Danubius '68", Bratislava 1981 – Award, Il Festival di Arte Video, Arte Video in Europa, Locarno 1986 – First Award, Nadežda Petrović Memorial 2011 – Sava Šumanović Award, Novi Sad