He is an artist and poet. In 1973, he joined the BOSCH+BOSCH group, of which he remained a member until the group’s dissolution in 1976. His oeuvre is characterised by the use of a variety of mediums (artist’s book, film, photographic performance, action, object), but the unique voice of his work is derived from the world of printing; specifically, it is based on the lead patterns of the letters used for printing. After destroying the finished text, he applied the letters to a variety of surfaces: to the body (as in Experiment with Katalin Ladik (1971) and Exemper (1978), in our collection), to objects, and, from the second half of the 1970s, to stones and ovoid shapes, using Letraset. In the ovoid Orbs (1978) and Ball Game (1977), the letters E, A and O appear, which the artist favoured because of their “lyrical form”, while in Composition 1 (1982) the damaged, tattered text block itself became dominant. In most cases, the text elements and word fragments in the works do not have a “meaning”, it is the visual-aesthetic value of the letter clusters that counts, and the letters and words cut out of books and newspapers are not only from Serbian, but also from French, Hungarian, English Finnish or German sources.
